Upload

Yep.. upload again!

Is it not about time VM gave us more upload?!

I would of thought 1mb on 20mb would of been best or even 2mb.. same goes for 50mb. 1.7mb upload is just silly for the speed. 4/5mb would be better.

So what do we think the chances of VM giving more upload are? I reckon very very low

Your absalutely right. Verizon FioS delivers Delivers multi megabit upload with its cables. But I do kind of see where virgin are coming from, they may be cautious of offerinh high uploads in fear of illegal software and movies being uploaded.

In reply to a post by krazykizza:

Your absalutely right. Verizon FioS delivers Delivers multi megabit upload with its cables. But I do kind of see where virgin are coming from, they may be cautious of offerinh high uploads in fear of illegal software and movies being uploaded.

The FiOS name stands for Fibre Optic Service

A better comparison would be things like Optimum Online Comcast UPC or Comhem for example, all of which are cable ISPs.

Why don't Virgin offer better upload? They have never been interested in offering better upload so in some areas their 'fibre optic' network can't handle it without a bit of work. Upload just isn't as cool as high download speeds. If you notice 50Mbit customers your upstreams are still DOCSIS 1.1, so you have DOCSIS 3 downstream but not even DOCSIS 2 upstream.

May be so but surely they can at least give us a bit more upload.

Download speed may be "cool" but more upload would be very helpful indeed.

Im trying to run a Teamspeak server and a small counter strike server off a 768k upload and its hard. the CS server can barely manage 10 players on it let alone the 16 max id like to be able to take.

In reply to a post by Seansmit17:

May be so but surely they can at least give us a bit more upload.

Virgin give us whatever makes nice ads / PR, or what they think we want. Upload is neither of those so we'll get it when they feel like giving it to us

But is it not clear to them and there are people out there who want the faster upload?

Cant they bring in a new package with more upload

In reply to a post by Seansmit17:

But is it not clear to them and there are people out there who want the faster upload?

Evidently not else they'd have already done so.

Cant they bring in a new package with more upload

Yes they could...

Even though, some areas CAN get more upload, and all areas SHOULD be getting more upload. As it stands, my copper wire is out doing people on cable connections. Also note, american ISPs work very differently with customized infastructure and availability more so limited to the UK. Optimum onlines headline speeds seems very patchy mostly limited to the NewYork area.

In reply to a post by krazykizza:

Even though, some areas CAN get more upload, and all areas SHOULD be getting more upload. As it stands, my copper wire is out doing people on cable connections. Also note, american ISPs work very differently with customized infastructure and availability more so limited to the UK. Optimum onlines headline speeds seems very patchy mostly limited to the NewYork area.

Given that Optimum Online only serve the NY / NJ area pretty much that isn't surprising. I am not sure what you mean regarding customised infrastructure, etc. It's a similar manner to here, not everywhere has Virgin cable and some areas still don't have 50Mbit. Optimum / Cablevision have 101Mbit available to all homes on their network, Comcast are deploying 50Mbit to all homes on their footprint.

I totally agree that Virgin can and should do better, but as it is they don't care.

i think the 200mb trail has a 6mb upload speed but not 100% sure

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

Any ideas on what the upload is on the 200mb trial?

VM did say they would put the upload speed up by Christmas. Think that was to shut their customers up?

VM never said they would increase upstream speeds that was the rumour mill. I understand that a few different upstream speeds are being tested on the trial, I heard 5 and 6Mbit.

Proportionally this is the same as the 50Mbit so doesn't give any clue for an increase - it is, as per, the bare minimum to support the downstream depending on the protocal being used to download, along with a small additional margin.

The current 50Mb upload is about 1.5Mb? I'm sure I read it would be increasing "later" to about 2.5-3Mb. Is that still going to happen?

In reply to a post by pete_thomson:

The current 50Mb upload is about 1.5Mb? I'm sure I read it would be increasing "later" to about 2.5-3Mb. Is that still going to happen?

*Shrug* it was a rumour as I mentioned earlier. No idea if it's going to be happening. Given that Virgin will have no real speed challenge downstream then unless BT make an 'issue' of their higher upstream it won't be touched.