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Old 30-08-2021, 16:03   #16
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Hopefully this new competition will drive up the quality of VM customer service as well as product quality. Their treatment of customers over the past few years has been absolutely shocking and would even put NTL to shame.

If it doesn't, the company deserves to fail and get taken over by a company that is more customer focused.
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Our broadband has always been super reliable and plenty fast enough. I accept not everyone gets this quality of service, I have friends on VM who aren't so fortunate, and one in particular who has fairly regular issues (though given their job they have fairly exceptional needs where something that the average person would shrug off, they can't as it affects their work).

Speeds have got such I'd rather have a price cut than another speed upgrade.
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Old 30-08-2021, 17:37   #18
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Our broadband has always been super reliable and plenty fast enough. I accept not everyone gets this quality of service, I have friends on VM who aren't so fortunate, and one in particular who has fairly regular issues (though given their job they have fairly exceptional needs where something that the average person would shrug off, they can't as it affects their work).

Speeds have got such I'd rather have a price cut than another speed upgrade.
Me too, and I'm only on 100M
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Old 30-08-2021, 18:07   #19
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Me too, and I'm only on 100M
Likewise. Our 100M is rock solid, always full speed and plenty adequate for our needs.
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Old 30-08-2021, 20:49   #20
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Likewise. Our 100M is rock solid, always full speed and plenty adequate for our needs.
My 1GB is rock solid, the only thing that lets it down is the hub 4 only has a 1GB port so u don't achieve full speed i get between 880 - 935mb/s.

I have a Realtek chipset ethernet card which has a 2.5GB port and my TP Link AX6000 also has a 2.5GB port.
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Surely nothing us free with VM, you pay them monthly, and they still own all the equipment. It's a great business model !
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Old 31-08-2021, 12:55   #22
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Our broadband has always been super reliable and plenty fast enough. I accept not everyone gets this quality of service, I have friends on VM who aren't so fortunate, and one in particular who has fairly regular issues (though given their job they have fairly exceptional needs where something that the average person would shrug off, they can't as it affects their work).

Speeds have got such I'd rather have a price cut than another speed upgrade.
Me too, 200MB is more than enough for my needs. At negotiation time I say i'm happy to take a speed cut and/or drop the landline, but they always say doing this will result in a price increase!
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Old 01-09-2021, 10:03   #23
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the shubs have and always will be free because VM need to provide accessibility to their network (modem). Hopefully production has caught up post covid disruption and it is now best practise to swap out all shubs with a shub 4. I really do hope that a shub 5 will come out next year with 2.5gbit ports. VM must be working on it now because they have hit a limit for the first time in about 20 years. They can't increase the speed on the services they offer until they provide a shub with greater than 1gbit ports. I imagine they are pulling their hair out thinking about it because the other thing they need to do is educate customers because 99.9% of people are going to continue to have gigabit nics in their pcs/laptops etc for many years to come and you can just imagine the calls to tech support with customers saying they can only get 800mbits on their 2gbit connection which is less than half the speed. I think it is going to have to be a combination of an easy to digest email upon tier signup as well as troubleshooting guides on the website and probably lengthy and annoying voice messages you have to listen to when you ring up tech support before they put you through to someone.
I am sure you are right about the need for educating folk on the need for NICS that can handle > 1Gb. However, given that everyone should know by now that WiFi will nearly always delivers less than than the headline connection speed. folk still call to complain about that.

I'm in the process of upgrading PC network cards and switches around the house up to 10Gb in anticipation of bandwidth upgrades beyond 1Gb. My AX11000 has a 2.5Gb port so that will do in the first instance. Luckily, I am assured that although my ethernet cable is only CAT5e it can manage much higher speeds than 1Gb if cards and switches are upgraded.
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I imagine they are pulling their hair out thinking about it because the other thing they need to do is educate customers because 99.9% of people are going to continue to have gigabit nics in their pcs/laptops etc for many years to come and you can just imagine the calls to tech support with customers saying they can only get 800mbits on their 2gbit connection which is less than half the speed.
So, many high end AMD x570 boards and Intel z490/z590 boards have >1Gbit LAN now, either 2.5G or in some cases 5G/10G.

This is a niche right now, but in a couple of years it will be a higher percentage, and I'd submit that the category of people likely to spring for a 2.2Gbit connection are far more likely to have a recent high end PC.

Mine has 2.5G, but I'm really not a fan of RJ45 over 1GBit, the 10GB core section of my home network all uses SMF SFP+ modules, the 1G segment uses Cat6 mostly for PoE (Cameras, APs). My router has 10G SFP+ WAN and LAN.
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So, many high end AMD x570 boards and Intel z490/z590 boards have >1Gbit LAN now, either 2.5G or in some cases 5G/10G.

This is a niche right now, but in a couple of years it will be a higher percentage, and I'd submit that the category of people likely to spring for a 2.2Gbit connection are far more likely to have a recent high end PC.

Mine has 2.5G, but I'm really not a fan of RJ45 over 1GBit, the 10GB core section of my home network all uses SMF SFP+ modules, the 1G segment uses Cat6 mostly for PoE (Cameras, APs). My router has 10G SFP+ WAN and LAN.
I'd have said all high end boards would have atleast 1Gbit ethernet now, ive not seen a board with 100mb ethernet in a very long time.

I have put a Realtek 2.5GB card in my PC for GB internet, the card was only £19 on sale from Amazon and it works a treat.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Syba-Gigabi...%2C176&sr=8-14

Thats the card im using.

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Old 01-09-2021, 13:05   #26
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I'd have said all high end boards would have atleast 1Gbit ethernet now, ive not seen a board with 100mb ethernet in a very long time.

I have put a Realtek 2.5GB card in my PC for GB internet, the card was only £19 on sale from Amazon and it works a treat.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Syba-Gigabi...%2C176&sr=8-14

Thats the card im using.
I said >1GB, greater than, i.e. 2.5G or 5G or 10G

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/products...t=price&page=1

This list all have multigig ethernet, and are all "desktop" type boards, no HEDT or server platforms.
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I'd have said all high end boards would have atleast 1Gbit ethernet now, ive not seen a board with 100mb ethernet in a very long time.

I have put a Realtek 2.5GB card in my PC for GB internet, the card was only £19 on sale from Amazon and it works a treat.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Syba-Gigabi...%2C176&sr=8-14

Thats the card im using.
I was recently trying to trouble shoot the internet connection on my sons smart tv. Its 2021 lg oled TV CX 55" (so very expensive and latest model) I couldn't get over 90Mb over ethernet but full 540 over wifi. Turns out these TVs only have 100Mb ethernet ports.......in 2021!!!!!
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I was recently trying to trouble shoot the internet connection on my sons smart tv. Its 2021 lg oled TV CX 55" (so very expensive and latest model) I couldn't get over 90Mb over ethernet but full 540 over wifi. Turns out these TVs only have 100Mb ethernet ports.......in 2021!!!!!
my sony TV is the same 75" 2020 android model only has Fast Ethernet (100) but worst of all its run via a USB 2 bus and barely gets over 35-40meg, where as the wifi can max my 500meg out when close the wifi but the location of my Router makes the wifi a bit touch and go so it stutters to hell when trying to play some 4K content via plex, keep saying i need to invest in a decent mesh system but something always pops up that's more important lol,
really though these days especially on expensive sets they shouldn't be cheeping out on a few pence on the ethernet i also have a samsung 55" from i believe 2014 was one of the first 4K TVs no HDR or anything and even that actually did have Gbit ethernet
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my sony TV is the same 75" 2020 android model only has Fast Ethernet (100) but worst of all its run via a USB 2 bus and barely gets over 35-40meg, where as the wifi can max my 500meg out when close the wifi but the location of my Router makes the wifi a bit touch and go so it stutters to hell when trying to play some 4K content via plex, keep saying i need to invest in a decent mesh system but something always pops up that's more important lol,
really though these days especially on expensive sets they shouldn't be cheeping out on a few pence on the ethernet i also have a samsung 55" from i believe 2014 was one of the first 4K TVs no HDR or anything and even that actually did have Gbit ethernet
Yeah I have a Sony TV with Fast Ethernet too, I used Wifi on it for a bit but have now given up and use an nVidia Shield.

I have some 4k encodes on Plex that are over 100mbit!
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Yeah I have a Sony TV with Fast Ethernet too, I used Wifi on it for a bit but have now given up and use an nVidia Shield.

I have some 4k encodes on Plex that are over 100mbit!
This is exactly how i found out my Samsung only has Fe too!
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