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superted1983 · ‎13-10-2023

why do virgin advertise the fastest speeds when, befiber, have an all round speed of 1800mbps in theory befiber are faster in total.

goslow · ‎13-10-2023

I think it's called 'marketing'!

VM's claim to greatness is based on it having the 'fastest median download speed'

https://www.virginmedia.com/broadband/speeds

'UK’s fastest major broadband provider: based on Gig1 Fibre Broadband avg download speed 1,130Mbps vs avg download speeds of major UK ISPs internet service providers.'

carl_pearce · ‎13-10-2023

Who adds the upload and download to calculate the overall speed?.. No-one I believe.

Of course VM will have to change their stance once 1.2 and 1.8Gbps services are mainstream with other providers, however by that time they will probably have 2.2Gbps available.

Cardiffman282 · ‎13-10-2023

See also https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Community-Natter/Alt-nets-thrash-VM-on-speed/td-p/5344228

I'm not a Very Insightful Person (just a little bit, sometimes). I don't work for Virgin Media (but then nor do any of the offshore customer service agents).

Shez879 · ‎20-10-2023

2.2Gbps with 100Mbps upstream. They really need to do something about their upload speed, but it might be tricky due to the tech they use.

I was uploading 61Gb worth of photos and videos on my new City Fibre connection and despite 'only receiving 300Mbps upload speed over wifi out of the 900Mbps' it made a massive difference and I was done in no time

superted1983 · ‎21-10-2023

a lot of people i believe, people that have videos and photos uploading large files uploading the forward movement in gaming i bet you work for virgin lol.

carl_pearce · ‎21-10-2023

@superted1983 wrote:
a lot of people i believe, people that have videos and photos uploading large files uploading the forward movement in gaming i bet you work for virgin lol.

Wrong.