Mon 15 Dec 2008
Virgin 50 Meg Download Broadband Service (UK)
Blurb by ShaunWhoohoo! Virgin Media has officially launched its new 50 Megabits per second (Mbps) domestic broadband service for customers to buy into.
Virgin Broadband will be the first UK ISP to roll out a next generation broadband service that runs far faster than most other broadband available to UK web surfers. The 50 Mbps service will cost £51 a month, although this is reduced to £35 if users also take a Virgin Phone line for an additional £11 a month.
More on the BBC, but I think it might tempt me to sign up for Virgin. They say you can download a film in minutes and an album in seconds…..
January 9th, 2009 at 5:25 am
woohoo 50Mbps, shame you’ll never be able to take full advantage of it with the pathetic up speed of
“up to 1.5 Mbps”
Took me a while to find it on the website.
February 24th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
So you are saying this is bollocks?
September 9th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Nope, what Sue is saying is bollocks, or trolling.
Facts here:
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html
Size S M M
(After 10Mb upgrade) L XL XXL
Downstream max speed 2Mb 2Mb 10Mb 10Mb 20Mb 50Mb
Upstream max speed 256k 256k 512k 512k 768k 1.5Mb
Daytime Management
Downstream
When does it apply? 9am - 9pm 10am - 3pm 10am - 3pm 10am - 3pm 10am - 3pm N/A
Threshold 200MB 1000MB 1500MB 3000MB 7000MB N/A
% Throttled 75% 50% 75% 75% 75% N/A
Maximum Throttling Duration 12h 5h 5h 5h 5h N/A
Upstream
When does it apply? 9am - 9pm N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Threshold 100MB N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
% Throttled 50% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Maximum Throttling Duration 12h N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Evening Management
Downstream
When does it apply? 9am - 9pm 4pm - 9pm 4pm - 9pm 4pm - 9pm 4pm - 9pm N/A
Threshold 200MB 500MB 750MB 1500MB 3500MB N/A
% Throttled 75% 50% 75% 75% 75% N/A
Maximum Throttling Duration 12h 5h 5h 5h 5h N/A
Upstream
When does it apply? 9am - 9pm 3pm - 8pm 3pm - 8pm 3pm - 8pm 3pm - 8pm N/A
Threshold 100MB 200MB 400MB 800MB 1400MB N/A
% Throttled 50% 50% 75% 75% 75% N/A
Maximum Throttling Duration 12h 5h 5h 5h 5h N/A
An example of how this works is that if a broadband Size: L customer downloaded 1500MB of data between 4pm and 9pm, their download speed would be temporarily set to up to 2.5Mb and their upload speed to up to 128Kb for 5 hours.
Always get the most from your connection
To make sure you always get the fastest speeds you can from your connection, we’ve put heaps of information on our website to help. That includes details about our minimum specification, and some simple steps to tweak how your computer works. It’s all really simple, and it’s all online at Broadband help and FAQs.
How can I tell if I’m nearing the threshold?
There are several tools that you can use to check how much you’re downloading or uploading. One particularly useful tool you can download is called DU Meter*.
If you’d like to use a different tool, you might like to http://www.tucows.com*