Virgin media upload

I'm on the 30meg package at the mo... still 2mbit/sec upload. Is there any plan to upgrade this to 3mbit? I will be moving back to FTTC as soon as this contract is up.

I forget the labels they use but old users on the oldest packages need to elect to upgrade to the current 30 Mbps product to get the 3 Mbps upload speed. Or at least that was the impression derived from what others have said over time.

Probably would mean a new minimum contract.

upload is the only thing on virgin that lets it down.

I do have a superhub. I thought that when upstream bonding was in place they'd do this but evidently not...

Ah, I see. Well I'm not going to bother with a new contract here and I'm moving back to FTTC as soon as I can (this flat had it active and I took over the account - openreach were quoting 5 weeks for an install w/ new phoneline!).

In reply to a post by JimKirk363:

upload is the only thing on virgin that lets it down.

Not only but also business customers pay a hell of a lot more for a much slower overall service and can't get a fixed IP beyond the 10/0.7 package. A couple of years back we opted for VM because then FTTC was only a twinkle in someone's eye. We were obliged to have a three year contract with VM but with 8 months to run on that contract FTTC is now available at 68/15; trying to see how deep our pocket is to have both services for 6 months since any order for FTTC is at least a five week wait for an engineer to call.

The business option does not give 50/5 Mbps but 50/~3.5 Mbps. We get about 48/3.4 Mbps at present.
And, yes, it's cheaper than the 10/0.75 Mbps option we used to have.

And we need the 6 fixed IP addresses option to get the Superhub 1 (no, the Superhub 2 is not available to business) to be able to use our own router (no, business Superhub firmware does not give the Modem Mode so beloved of us consumers).

Edited by John_Gray (Sun 15-Sep-13 10:46:28)