VM's 1gig rollout

Has anyone seen or heard anything about the progress of VM's 1 GIG rollout?

Last update I saw was the release in Birmingham & Coventry.

I've heard or read nothin!

Hope it comes my way soon, but i've no complaints on 350 service

I cant wait for the hub4, In Leicester on 500 and just about to go back to 350 due to the hub3 not being capable of maintaining a decent connection since I was upgraded.

In reply to a post by BuckleZ:

I've heard or read nothin!

Hope it comes my way soon, but i've no complaints on 350 service

After 2yrs of homeplugs I got a direct ethernet cable laid -

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/_assets/speedtest/but...

Well happy! Bring on the faster speeds

Have a look at my review of hub 4, may be of interest

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/threads/review-gig1...

Interesting, thanks.

I'm seriously contemplating going to 350 due to the issues I'm facing with 500 on hub 3, no option for even trying the hub 4 here.

The last excuse was that I had "33 devices connected, this will cause issues"!

In reply to a post by mlmclaren:

Have a look at my review of hub 4, may be of interest

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/threads/review-gig1...

In reply to a post by mlmclaren:

Have a look at my review of hub 4, may be of interest

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/threads/review-gig1...

Interesting, thanks.

My issue with the Hub 4 (not that I have one yet) is the utter lack of foresight VM are displaying with it. Why release it for 1 speed tier that they can never upgrade? The Ethernet ports are a hard cap on the speed never going above 1G.

Who do they think would pay for a 1G service, except the most technically demanding users? Everyone I can think of who would be interested would want to use it in Modem mode, immediately limiting them to ~930mb.

It just needed an SFP+ cage. This would not have significantly increased the cost, and would allow people to use anything from 2.5G/5G/10G ethernet over Cat6a, or cheap DAC cables, or even MM fibre if they like. Personally it would have been ideal for me, and I could have connected it to the 10G WAN on my USG-Pro.

There doesn't seem to be any future planning for this hub, I mean the model its based off of has been around and in use for sometime, Virgin just became adopters of it under Liberty Global.

I used this hub (albeit temporarily) whilst working and travelling in Canada, its been in use there (or an option) since 2018 possibly 2017 (Rogers in Canada where using a variant since as early as July 2017)

The reality of anything above 1Gb/s being sold on the residential level is unlikely for atleast a few years, personally wouldn't see any use for any requirment above 1Gb/s.

I would expect Virgin Media will be busy for the next few years not just rolling out DOCSIS 3.1 for Downstream use but bringing upstream bandwdith/capacity up and enabling full duplex DOCSIS 3.1.

Getting Gig1 in Derry, N.Ireland on Wednesday, for £10 more than i was paying.

All done now

Showing off and waste of money!

hahaha ok

In reply to a post by BuckleZ:

All done now

Shame VM can't manage to deliver the concurrent streams to make the TBB average over 900. I can't order in my area, but I don't see any advantage over my M200 with 20Mbps upload.

https://ibb.co/ZNQx2xm

I do use 25m of Cat5e from the router.

Edited by BuckleZ (Thu 12-Nov-20 12:50:11)

In reply to a post by BuckleZ:

https://ibb.co/ZNQx2xm

That must be the built in Samknows tool on the Hub 4? Clever, but only tells you the Virgin Media bit is working, doesn't tell you if VM have congestion on their links to the rest of the internet. Vodafone do something similar.

BT's FTTP 1gig service manages to hit over 980 Mbps on the Thinkbroadband tester.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

BT's FTTP 1gig service manages to hit over 980 Mbps on the Thinkbroadband tester.

I've never seen a BT FTTP test that high.

Don't think I've seen any tests over 940Mb.

In reply to a post by j0hn83:

I've never seen a BT FTTP test that high.

Don't think I've seen any tests over 940Mb.

Cheers, my memory failed me!

Best Gig1 of the month so far http://tbb.st/1604741091276885455

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Best Gig1 of the month so far http://tbb.st/1604741091276885455

The average and burst HTTP look amazing, the average TBB is oddly low, but I think that happens on all VM connections.

Well its not your money hes spending soooooooo

Still waste of £62 a month x 24 months = £1,488 VM must have laughing all the way to their bank!

Paying £54 between 4 adults.

Edited by BuckleZ (Thu 12-Nov-20 19:56:22)

In reply to a post by BuckleZ:

Paying £54 between 4 adults.

Nice one £13.50 per person. But upload still poor.

That's not bad, I went with Virgin at £89 a month for their top package inc TV as I was paying Sky more than that just for TV.
It started off as 300Mbps but they've not long upgraded me to 500Mbps for free.
I'll probably get the Gig package when/if its available.

In reply to a post by adslmax:

In reply to a post by BuckleZ:

Paying £54 between 4 adults.

Nice one £13.50 per person. But upload still poor.

Likely the best upload of any service available to him, unless he has an fttp altnet available.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

The average and burst HTTP look amazing, the average TBB is oddly low, but I think that happens on all VM connections.

I've found single thread performance really does vary between 300Mbps upwards depending on when you test, although the x6 tests are far more consistent. Then again that's always been the case with VM, even before Gig1.

Speed-wise, the highest typical speed I achieve when doing multi-threaded downloads on my setup is around 1150Mbps, although not many servers can keep up with that.

If only the upload was better...

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Still waste of £62 a month x 24 months = £1,488 VM must have laughing all the way to their bank!

18 month contract actually.... also £52.99 for me with Maxit TV, 40GB sim and VoIP.....

In reply to a post by adslmax:

In reply to a post by BuckleZ:

Paying £54 between 4 adults.

Nice one £13.50 per person. But upload still poor.

What's your upload?

I recall you having G.fast available but you weren't happy about it, I wouldn't be either if it wasn't upgradeable....

Once Virgin starts rolling out full duplex docsis 3.1 or even before uploads will still be upgradeable over this pie in the sky xDSL bs

I upgraded 2 weeks ago but can't use it as they sent the wrong power supply.