ISP Virgin Media UK Discounts Gigabit Broadband to £39.99
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Re: ISP Virgin Media UK Discounts Gigabit Broadband to £39.99
New Customers only ?
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As I mentioned on another thread, I am an O2 customer who signed up with Virgin last month, and had my service installed and start about a week ago.
I am paying £38/m for Gig1 plus some weekend call package (which I don't want and am not using). Given that I was previously paying BT £62.66 for an out of contract fttp service (albeit with 100mb up) I am pretty happy. |
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I always find the "average speeds of 1130Mbps down" amusing :) Who, at home, has 2.5Gbps ethernet backhaul or 1Gbps+ capable WiFi devices
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Asus RT-AX86U Pixel 7 Pro and Xiaomi 12 both max out 1gbit wirelessly. |
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Asus RT-AX86U £250 to £300 Pixel 7 Pro £750 to £850 Xiaomi 12 £500+ |
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The biggest benefit of 1 gigabit for me, is I dont need to shape my downstream traffic, I can do multiple things at once without a care in the world.
When I was on VDSL, if I downloaded a game, it felt like I was been ddosed, twitch would keep buffering and be stuck in 480p or below, netflix similar etc. Secondly grabbing games even though I might be hitting my wifi cap (on consoles), 300mbit of wifi bandwidth is still way faster than what I was getting on VDSL, and steam comes down at close to the full gigabit over ethernet on my PC. Finally gig1 gives you a degree of protection from docsis downstream congestion as the 3.1 DS channel is exclusive to gig1 customers. I am noticing considerable upstream congestion, but I can do the full gigabit around the clock even mid evening. With that said I wouldnt have ordered at the normal £62, it was high enough to scare me off. Luckily I got the O2 volt deal (£41 total monthly cost including O2). I will say the O2 gig1 deal is better as you getting a mobile sim for only one extra pound, but this is still a good offer for the standalone gigabit. |
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For some odd reason fast.com now thinks I get 1.7-1.8Gbps down, which is funny as its not that fast in real world use. |
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"Originally Posted by ianch99 View Post
I always find the "average speeds of 1130Mbps down" amusing Who, at home, has 2.5Gbps ethernet backhaul or 1Gbps+ capable WiFi devices" I DO!" My PC has a 2.5Gb/s NIC and WIFI 6E, my phone is also WIFI 6E and I have a USB C to 2.5Gb/s NIC I can plug into it. |
Re: ISP Virgin Media UK Discounts Gigabit Broadband to £39.99
But what do you do on your internal network that requires that speed?
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The other point is can the whole route support those speeds? The bottleneck may not be on the final hop to the hub.
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