Virgin Media

ashwuk76 · May 11, 2017

Little Ralphy said:
Cheers for the replies.

Currently with BT and I've had to use those AC power Wifi extenders to get signals in our back rooms to be fair.

Are the speeds as advertised usually? is the tv a bit slow? Saw a few people complaining it's not responsive.

Is this the traffic management? So the vivid gamer which is meant to have no traffic management, would I be getting closer to the 200mb do you think? Currently get 60mb with BT, it'd be like surfing livejasmin click on the stunner and some plump, spotty bird pops up, if I get less than current.

I have the top end 200mb package and by and large I hit that speed most of the time.

edge · May 12, 2017

Little Ralphy said:
Cheers for the replies.

Currently with BT and I've had to use those AC power Wifi extenders to get signals in our back rooms to be fair.

Are the speeds as advertised usually? is the tv a bit slow? Saw a few people complaining it's not responsive.

Is this the traffic management? So the vivid gamer which is meant to have no traffic management, would I be getting closer to the 200mb do you think? Currently get 60mb with BT, it'd be like surfing livejasmin click on the stunner and some plump, spotty bird pops up, if I get less than current.

they do traffic manage ,although the problems I was having were nothing to do with that, not sure on that vivid deal , join there customer forum to judge the feedback, don't get caught up with the speeds on offer its the latency and packet data ( packet data blocks of information) that you get that is the key, especially if gaming, for normal use what you have got should be well enough, most things run quite well on anything above 12mb. will have a look on there forum for you later if I get a chance.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/11/intel_puma_6_arris/
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...rgin-media-superhub-3-router-latency-bug.html

edge · May 12, 2017

here is one off there site
https://community.virginmedia.com/t...200-gamer-not-recommended/td-p/3398571/page/2

Eggs · May 12, 2017

..I don't mind their trains and planes.

Little Ralphy · May 12, 2017

edge said:
they do traffic manage ,although the problems I was having were nothing to do with that, not sure on that vivid deal , join there customer forum to judge the feedback, don't get caught up with the speeds on offer its the latency and packet data ( packet data blocks of information) that you get that is the key, especially if gaming, for normal use what you have got should be well enough, most things run quite well on anything above 12mb. will have a look on there forum for you later if I get a chance.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/11/intel_puma_6_arris/
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...rgin-media-superhub-3-router-latency-bug.html

Cheers for that mate. Will have a proper look this morning at what you've said as I don't fully understand some of it. Will reply properly then that is again.

edge · May 12, 2017

Little Ralphy said:
Cheers for that mate. Will have a proper look this morning at what you've said as I don't fully understand some of it. Will reply properly then that is again.

without the nerd speak, the chipset in there routers isn't up to the job.
read there forum mate , its a people who have got it posting I put a link further down.

Rugby Toffee · May 12, 2017

Never been enticed. I am on TALK TALK and haven't any issues in nearly 10 years. Lucky i guess

YellowSweat · May 12, 2017

Ive always found that virgins routers... sorry 'superhubs' are usually a big cause of any issues, absolute garbage, try lobbing them in modem only mode and hooking up a decent router.

Also I havent really read the thread, so soz if thats already been posted

Little Ralphy · May 12, 2017

edge said:
they do traffic manage ,although the problems I was having were nothing to do with that, not sure on that vivid deal , join there customer forum to judge the feedback, don't get caught up with the speeds on offer its the latency and packet data ( packet data blocks of information) that you get that is the key, especially if gaming, for normal use what you have got should be well enough, most things run quite well on anything above 12mb. will have a look on there forum for you later if I get a chance.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/11/intel_puma_6_arris/
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...rgin-media-superhub-3-router-latency-bug.html

Nice one for the links. I see what you mean now.

Just browsing their forum and it's just full of complaints. I guess people aren't going to log in and post how great it is, so you have to factor that in, but the complaints all seem to be very similar. Not getting the speeds as advertised. I figured cos it was cable they'd be more accurate.

Currently I'm on BT broadband and in about 4 years it's been off twice and fixed within an hour or 2. We've had pretty consistent 60mb download speeds and a decent upload as well. The reason for looking to switch was more to do with the deal has ended with BT and they're now going to start charging me for BT Sport unless I lock in to another 18 month contract at £52 per month for just the phone line (we don't even have a phone connected) the broadband and the 'free' BT Sport.

edge · May 12, 2017

Little Ralphy said:
Nice one for the links. I see what you mean now.

Just browsing their forum and it's just full of complaints. I guess people aren't going to log in and post how great it is, so you have to factor that in, but the complaints all seem to be very similar. Not getting the speeds as advertised. I figured cos it was cable they'd be more accurate.

Currently I'm on BT broadband and in about 4 years it's been off twice and fixed within an hour or 2. We've had pretty consistent 60mb download speeds and a decent upload as well. The reason for looking to switch was more to do with the deal has ended with BT and they're now going to start charging me for BT Sport unless I lock in to another 18 month contract at £52 per month for just the phone line (we don't even have a phone connected) the broadband and the 'free' BT Sport.

have a look around mate , likes of vodaphone/ plusnet are doing broadband deals at the moment at decent prices.
call BT and say you are going to go to one of there rivals and quote the deal at the see if they will come down on price, nothing to lose.
A lot of Virgins problems is they are over subscribed in some areas, not that they will admit it

peteblue · July 1, 2017

Rugby Toffee said:
Never been enticed. I am on TALK TALK and haven't any issues in nearly 10 years. Lucky i guess

I was with an ISP that gave wet piece of string internet for years before it stopped in our area. Moved to Talk Talk at the beginning of this year and the wet piece of string was actually superfast by comparison. On a good day we're getting 1.5M download and .5M upload, against a promise of 17M from TT. We've just got fibre in the village so I'm joining BT and they're promising 54-58M with a guaranteed minimum of 50M. We shall see......