[Closed] Virgin 200mb

Yes. No.

My dad has it. Not really had any problems when on a cable, no chance of hitting top speeds on wireless through their superhub pile of rubbish.

I keep trying to convince him to swap to a decent router to take advantage of it!

Yes. No.

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Yes, got it.

Seems to get 45mb, on average wireless.
Lots of problems in the first few weeks but seems OK now.

I agree that wireless won't give you 200M/bits but that's more a limitation of the wireless technology than the Virgin service.

I get over 200M/bits down and 20 up.

For me the main driver was the number fo devices sharing the connection. There's 4 of us and the kids are often playing games/streaming movies/skype chatting with mates (usually all at the same time) plus I listen to the radio/work and my wife's online too. We just don't seem to get contention issues like we had on the slower service.

We use the superhub with a variety of wired/wireless devices with a separate router elsewhere in the house plus signal boosters, a synology device and a printer.

Sometimes there's 20 devices connected at once...

We've got 300mb, 25 up.

Frankly it's never been perfect, it's *feels* slow, web pages hang for ages, especially STW! It loads faster on my shitty home 4MB ADSL line than in work on our 300mb. Speedtest comfirm 300+mb and a 12ms ping, but for brousing it's a bit rubbish.

Wi-fi wise we're using very high end Unifi WAP but it's limited to about 50-60mb, but that's just wifi - mobile devices will never manage 300 anyway.

Frankly it's never been perfect, it's *feels* slow, web pages hang for ages, especially STW! It loads faster on my shitty home 4MB ADSL line than in work on our 300mb. Speedtest comfirm 300+mb and a 12ms ping, but for brousing it's a bit rubbish.

It would be worth using developer tools to see if it's your ISPs DNS hanging and causing the lag. Try swapping a device to the Google DNS to see if that improves it.

Virgin 150Mb/s here. Normally get just over that when I test at the router.

WiFi isn't the finest, but I use Powerline plugs to my office, desktop and networked printers. Really should get a better WiFi transmitter.

It's pretty reliable, and it's nice to know that the coax cable (rather than the OpenReach twisted pair copper) can support much higher speeds in the future.

Edit:
I have two teenagers, so it's a fairly high demand environment on occasion.

You lucky, lucky bastards! - stuck on ADSL @ 4Mbps for the foreseeable despite Virgin cabling being in the next street.

With two kids who stream a lot working from home during the school holidays is going to be painful.

I was upgraded from 60MB to 200MB a few months back. I was getting full 60MB speed...guess what I'm getting now? Yup, 60MB

You have to activate your new speed after the upgrade, cant remember how, but the same thing happened to me. Call the "I want to leave" option and speak to someone who can actually help you.

had 25 down, 50 down and 100 down..
for a single device you won't be able to tell the difference, something like HD netflix is under 10mb, if you want to take advantage then it will be on wired devices over wireless.

Cletus - Member

You lucky, lucky bastards! - stuck on ADSL @ 4Mbps for the foreseeable despite Virgin cabling being in the next street.

With two kids who stream a lot working from home during the school holidays is going to be painful.

Tell me about it, I was working from home this morning, couldn't even open a webpage

Me to eldest "are you on the internet??"

"Noooooooo Dad"

Apprently Minecraft, Youtube videos of minecraft and Factiming his mate to discuss the merits of said Youtube video aren't on the Internet.

We have the 150 version and it is great. We have a range extender which is a pain and slows everything down but that is more problem, not Virgin's. We have had 4 people watching Netflix in parallel with no noticeable issues.

If anything like the 100Mb/s then you'll get great speeds and service apart from the time you want to use it - namely between 5pm and 11pm - between these times, you'll struggle to get 5Mb/s down.
Customer services are lovely, but powerless and ineffectual
You'll get fobbed off with some 'service review' dates.

Ultimately, they have too many users to deliver the advertised speeds on their current networks.

You lucky, lucky bastards! - stuck on ADSL @ 4Mbps for the foreseeable despite Virgin cabling being in the next street.

Our BT used to run at 1Mbps and it cost £40 a month inc phone 🙁 cancelled it and will sign up for faster service another time.

200Mbps in France, its faaassst 🙂 As above I used ethernet wire to computer for larger downloads for max speeds. You do also see with the 200 speed that often its the servers the other end holding you up. Wherever you can download and watch later rather than stream at peak times.

200mb Broadband and no speed restrictions!! Especially during peak hours, the speed is quick. 12gb Update at 6-8pm, no problem, that'll be about 10 minutes!

On 100mb vivid or whatever they call it. Xbox one is wired into the router and never get slow down online, that's including various iPads, phones and a ps4 using the wifi.
At 1730 wireless through iPad it's running at 92 down and 12 up.

Upload always seems a bit poor with virgin. Mum has Bt infinity and that's 50 down and 20 up.

Signed up. Thanks chaps.

Not sure what people do with a 200mb connection, I had an 80mb (about 72mb in reality) uncapped connection on plusnet FTTC and just I couldn't utilise it, even rinsing usenet sites, I litteraly ran out of content I wanted in a month or two...so dropped to a 40mb.

Now my current house has virgin 100mb, it's not so much the speed it's the reliability, router seems to drop connection often enough to be realy annoying, not sure if thats the router or the service.

Id rather a slower speed and better stability personaly!

Of course, (torrents aside) it's only as fast as the slowest bit of the connection; a gigabit connection won't do you any good if the server is only chucking data at you at 10Mbps.

It's all about number of devices really. Back when I was on regular old-school ADSL the speed was fine, but it ground to a halt if there were three or four devices dragging data down simultaneously. Going from single- to double-figure Mbps took that problem away.

I suppose that scales as demand increases; you could have a torrent going, watch a streamed movie, have a console downloading a game in the background all at the same time whilst the rest of the household are on the Internet.

Used to be on their 100mb package. Sky's fibre feels faster partly because it's up time for me at least is massively better than Virgin ever managed.

I had some many problems with the line dropping they had to go.

It works. But as folks point out your individual device performance is only going to be as good as the worst part of the system.

If your 'super hub' is in the front room and you're always accessing it with an iPhone 4 in a back bedroom it will suck irrespective of the speed a server can provide data at.
On the other hand, if you have the super hub in modem mode and connect it to a switch connected via cables to routers in each room and use a modern device you'll get a great service.

Main advantage I've found is that we don't run out of bandwidth with each member of the family doing their own thing.