Virgin Media 50mb Package Question

[Berch]

Well,

I'm currently on their 20mb package waiting to be upgraded to 50mb and I done some google searching before I brought it to find out if it was any good and it being Virgin Media it sounds brilliant expecially with no capping limits as of yet I went for it and was hit with a £80 installation fee which after some puppy eyes around mum I got out of her and ordered it but I also saw a few people didn't pay it anyone on the package and have to pay the £80 fee or pay nothing at all or a fee less than that?

[Robbie]

Just so you know it's going on the STM networks soon.

[Berch]

Just so you know it's going on the STM networks soon.

Ahh.. damn and blast.

[Stephen!]

I think the people who didn't have the £80 installation fee are the ones who got it as a part of the trial.

[Flisker]

IMO I do not see the point in 50MB yet... Simply because a lot of servers in datacentres have 10Mbit port on them and you can only download as fast as the server can handle. I also think that the more people get 50MB the more congested the network will become and nobody will get the 50MB (well anywhere near that speed).

[Agnostic Bear]

Just so you know it's going on the STM networks soon.

It might not be, they're using this period as a trial to see if STM is needed, and from what I can see in my area it isn't, I'm pretty sure quite a few people round here are on 50mb and there are never any slowdowns, I guess that's one of the benefits of DOCSIS 3.

[N!ck]

It might not be, they're using this period as a trial to see if STM is needed, and from what I can see in my area it isn't, I'm pretty sure quite a few people round here are on 50mb and there are never any slowdowns, I guess that's one of the benefits of DOCSIS 3.

That's just the cable technology used to connect you to VM's system, nothing to do with the capacity of their backbone network.

[Berch]

IMO I do not see the point in 50MB yet... Simply because a lot of servers in datacentres have 10Mbit port on them and you can only download as fast as the server can handle. I also think that the more people get 50MB the more congested the network will become and nobody will get the 50MB (well anywhere near that speed).

Fail.
It's not like im downloading from download.net all day the only downloading I do is from RapidShare and Virign Media unlike some.. *COUGH* Be *COUGH* dont just accept a ton of customers and than go oh no our network is congested they upgrade and prepare first seen as VM never runs slow unless you get capped.

[Flisker]

Fail.
It's not like im downloading from download.net all day the only downloading I do is from RapidShare and Virign Media unlike some.. *COUGH* Be *COUGH* dont just accept a ton of customers and than go oh no our network is congested they upgrade and prepare first seen as VM never runs slow unless you get capped.

Wow you sounded like some fanboy of ClubHabbo then...

Firstly Brad, I said IMO which mean IN MY OPINION. So I never "Failed".

Secondly, Be* wasn't the company which congested the network which is on BT Wholesale. It was o2 Access.

Thridly, I didn't mean you directly about the downloading I meant in general.

Fourthly its download.com

Fifthly, Virgin Media like every company will keep accepting more orders. It's called business... Just like you and money, if someone kept offering you money everyday you wouldn't reject it would you?

[James!]

I've got the 50MB Virgin package too, only get around 35 of it though.