Virgin 1Gb now available.

Ozvaldo

Anyone recommend a good router for this as said above the router is sh1te -wouldnt mind getting my moneys worth on this

micks_address

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274310#Comment_120274310

yeah i can't see there being much benefit to 2gbps.. hopefully it drives down the price of 1gb offerings

heavydawson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274627#Comment_120274627

I suspect the price won't budge until they discontinue the 500mbps service and make 1gbps the new entry-level service. And that will likely be driven by the likes of Eir/Siro and the wholesale arm of Virgin moving first on that. NBI have a speed bump on their latest roadmap

They may decide to keep the product range simple and discontinue the 500mbps service at that point. Or they may introduce a 4th speed tier. Will be interesting to see what the next jump above 2gbps will be. 3gbps, or a bigger jump to 5gbps?

schmoo2k

Any word on symmetrical bandwidths - the current VM upload is annoying at times...

feargantae

I'm in a non VM area and the website says I can get 2Gb "soon", on the OpenEir site it says 2Gb is available to me but on SIRO the max is saying 1Gb!

I'm assuming that means SIRO will soon offer 2Gb in my area?

TCP/IP

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274310#Comment_120274310

I already have Aruba enterprise Wifi 7 based solution with 10gb lan so am ready for 2gb will just be bridging the modem and configuring it into my existing network.

freeze66

This would be a blessing if it came with same up and down speeds for the link. My home server is crying because I live in a relatively new building in Cork and my only broadband option is from Three which has okay ish dl speeds but upload is horrendous. Only viable option for streaming from my Jellyfin container is doing it on my home network or downloading them to my phone's local storage because it's impossible to watch unless its 480p.

heavydawson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120280368#Comment_120280368

Which Aruba model is that? Their leadership has been adamant that they don't see wifi 7 as a priority?

MugsGame

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120231473#Comment_120231473

How do you know my upload needs? I'm regularly uploading large files to work, and separately to YouTube and cloud storage. I've actively shied away from hosting anything locally because of upload limits.

50 Mbps is laughable - although I would have killed for it back in the days of DSL, let alone dial-up (my first modem was 1200/75 bps. I've written DSL modem firmware and programs that talked to banks over X.25, so I might know something about my comms needs).

kippy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120295320#Comment_120295320

Which would suggest that 50 up is perfectly adequate.

A lot of the services you are uploading to would actively throttle uploads from a single source above a certain speed or indeed wouldn't be able to handle them in the first instance - right now, there's very little justification for that level of upload speed.

MugsGame

I'm not the only one on this thread that thinks they would benefit from higher upload speeds.

I'm surprised you didn't tell me that my local hardware wouldn't be capable of serving files that quickly.

jeffk

I got about three emails about the deal in a week, 5 or so extra a month not bad.

But like mugsgame, i would prefer upload speeds to be boosted, I have 2TB of google drive, i could put a lot of stuff onto, even use it as an "external drive" and save space on my physical ones, but not with the current upload speeds

branners69

There was a thread about how much people are paying for VM. Anyone know if it still exists?

For what it is worth, last year I paid €44 x 6 months + €92 x 6 months (€816 per year) for 1gb broadband and home phone.

I rang them this morning and they offered €68 x 6 months + €83 x 6 months (€906 per year).

I didnt accept, was just wondering what others are paying!

Gusser09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120300853#Comment_120300853

500mb Broadband Only

Was paying €75 Per Month

Called a week ago and got

500mb Broadband only for €45 9 months and €70 3 Months

€615 per year.

jeffk

Just had too cancel as in the email and phone call they never mentioned the landline isn't included

So in my case it would go up 8 something not 5 something

Unfortunately

breeno

VM customer here on a basic 250mb plan which is serving us fine. Our only other option currently is Eir 100mb as we're not fibre enabled yet.

The KN trucks arrived on our road today and I got excited it might be Eir fibre but its actually VM doing an upgrade on their network to fibre. Presume the only real benefit here would be speed bumps to 2 or 10 gbps to our existing services rather than the opportunity to shop around and get some new customer offers?

The proposed Vodafone Virgin partnership hasn't materialised as of yet?

loyatemu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120410605#Comment_120410605

it's been signed, so you'd imagine VF will start using the VM network sometime this year and provide some competition.

deravarra

1 gig with home phone and TV - full price normally 112, they offered at 102 for 9 months, and revert back to full price for final 3 months of 12 month contract.

I took it, but didnt think the offer was great tbh

Gusser09

With SIRO and Eir starting to cover more urban areas you would think it would be in Virgins interests to get Vodafone onboard as a reseller asap. At least they would be making something rather than losing customers to other networks.

EarWig

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120487184#Comment_120487184

Virgin's problem is that it's prices are out of line with the others. It's monopoly pricing.

They will try to hold on to that for as long as possible.

Banzai600

virgin prices are only going up and up - they keep "upgrading" our speeds, we were ok with the 100/150 mb, but you've no option for a lower speed service - what does that tell you.

im just trying to try and sort out the old ph line to get eir into the house, it'll be less than half of what we pay @ 35e a month for 2 yrs.

deravarra

Vm have had a reseller agreement with Vodafone, but when I asked Vodafone if this was available, they said they couldn't tell if my connection would be with siro or vm cable

The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing

bk

Well Vodafone don’t currently make use of the Virgin Media network at all.

Vodafone currently resell on either the SIRO network of the OpenEir FTTH network depending on location.

Vodafone have come to an agreement to use VM’s network, but it hasn’t started yet and it doesn’t look like they will be selling VM cable anyway. It looks like they will only be selling in areas where VM replace the cable with FTTH.

Id guess in time the plan is for Vodafone to use Siro wherever available and replace using openEir with VM FTTH network everywhere else, largely the most urban areas.

jeffk

Still not getting 100 upload even thought listed on my account 1000Mb / 1Mb

Reset router

Got onto live chat an they denied i could get it, then reset something their end

Annoying to think double the speed but I am guessing in my area of D15 it cant be got

thefinalstage

I really wish these fecks would bring FTTH to Dublin proper. So much of Dublin now has worse broadband then a field in Mayo. It's strange.