Virgin Media Upgrade

[totalgenius]

Good News :banana:

Just got a call from virgin media, they'll be upgrading my 20mb connection to 50mb within this week.

 

[Zooropa]

Is that for free m8 as im on 20 mb

 

[chrispeters]

thats gr8 news...if my line goes from 20 to 50 meg...this means i may get 12 meg instead of my usual 5 ??
woohoo :Clap:

 

[Curly]

They'll be capping it next week lol

Curly

 

[MFCGMFC]

i take it ur in the test area mate?

now we gotta pray for an influx of 50mb modems and a hack

Cheers
MFCGAVMFC

 

[totalgenius]

Is that for free m8 as im on 20 mb

As per the call, I would be paying the same after the 50mb upgrade.

No extra charge for 20mb to 50mb upgrade.

They'll be using the same modem (ntl250) to supply 50mb

 

[Curly]

They'll be using the same modem (ntl250) to supply 50mb

hmmmmm a new config file then???


Curly

 

[MFCGMFC]

but can teh current network take 50mb? it can hardly produce 20mb

Cheers
MFCGAVMFC

 

[totalgenius]

but can teh current network take 50mb? it can hardly produce 20mb

Cheers
MFCGAVMFC

Theoretically the hybrid fiber-coaxial network used by vm can handle seeds up to 1gbps (1000 mega bits per second ), as long as the optical nodes and optical routers arn't overloaded.

Vm would probably use frequency multiplexing and or channel bonding to supply 50mb on current modems rather than upgrade to DOCSIS 3.0 modems ( Theoretical downstrem of +343.04 Mbit/s and upstream of +122.88 Mbit/s).

 

[MFCGMFC]

frequency multiplexing?

so we could get 50mb just like the 20mb rollout last year?

Cheers
MFCGAVMFC

 

[nickgen]

can you imagine on 50 meg download 4 gig in about 15mins then your capped its pointless its all about the bragging rights with virgin media, they can boast we give out 50 meg no one else does that but in the small print as long as you only download less than 4 gig your ok, and now with the new speed caps that you can guarantee will be rolled out nationally soon you can download as long as its between 10 at night and 10 in the morning.Give me the old days 10meg all day "sorry rant over"

 

[greig2000_uk]

50MB and capped for 11 hours each day, lol
I would settle for a rollback to Telewest and 10MB
good luck m8

 

[MFCGMFC]

aye and just stick 5 modems together haha

whats the upload on the 50mb package?

Cheers
MFCGAVMFC

 

[adam]

something just doesnt sound right. i thought the technical spec for the 250 was a maximum 38meg at 256 qam? also all the multiple modem experiments only achieve a little over 30meg max. with that modem i find it it hard believe but i would like to be proven wrong - it would liven up the hacking scene

 

[Kruger]

but can teh current network take 50mb? it can hardly produce 20mb

Cheers
MFCGAVMFC

must be your area m8, my 20 meg is awesom and always get it full throttle.

 

[nozzer]

As per the call, I would be paying the same after the 50mb upgrade.

No extra charge for 20mb to 50mb upgrade.

They'll be using the same modem (ntl250) to supply 50mb

Dont see how they can as these modems aren't compatible with a 50Mbit/sec stream.

The idea was that the 50Meg system runs on a Docsis3 variant and would require the new multi-tuner modems. Thats certainly how its been running in the test areas.

btw, channel bonding is a Docsis3 thing. Its actually a major selling point of this system over previous Docsis versions which dont have channel bonding. To achieve channel bonding a modem has to have multiple-tuners as each channel runs on a different frequency (they actually use a single tuner module which has a dual fixed offset local osciallator to produce 2 independant data streams which are then merged in the Docsis3 stack).

 

[simple66]

What?!? VM are gonna be dishing out 50meg? What area are they testing these lines in?

 

[stef290175]

about time they did the upgrade

 

[Kruger]

Wat did u say your mac address was again? :roflmao:

 

[MFCGMFC]

must be your area m8, my 20 meg is awesom and always get it full throttle.

i always get 2.3MB/s on downloads, but its not everywhere that gets that

Cheers
MFCGAVMFC