Do these prices include the new VAT increase?
Is there a webpage for the new VIP100?
I dont see how the price will include the vat increase at it isn't actually taking effect until the end of Jan 2011. Knowing VM the rollout of 100 meg service will baffle most people, ie how they enable somewhere with a lower population count than somewhere like a main city.
I dont see how the price will include the vat increase at it isn't actually taking effect until the end of Jan 2011. Knowing VM the rollout of 100 meg service will baffle most people, ie how they enable somewhere with a lower population count than somewhere like a main city.
The VAT rise actually takes effect from January 4th.
In addition to the rise in VAT which comes into effect on 4 January
I know from speaking to various friends that shops around here have already started adding the new VAT rate so it wouldn't surprise me if Virgin Media started it early. (That is to say those who work in the shops that have started calculating prices at the new rate)
Personally though I don't think they will. They have got a lot of sorting out to do to square up customers bills.
without getting into the unfathomable costs based on prices on the website, what happened to 100MB being £7 more than the 50MB, as was reported earlier IIRC?
It was but 50Mbps went down in price (from £28 to £25 after discount)
oh, OK. so basically we didn't get that £3 saving, as the bills still show £45 for the 50MB broadband, and a £20.95 bundle discount.
thanks Virgin!
EDIT : quick check, and we're currently paying a total of £68.49 for triple XL, but the quoted price on the website for that bundle is currently £65.30. might have to give them a quick call....
(unless Ben comes along and tells me i've misread something somewhere....)
It may just carry on beyond 50, according to this link
The modems have a set config so anything like the speeds in that link are not possible and it will be to do with the browser possibly cached or even good old Kaspersky causing strange readings.
50Mb is set to 53Mb to cover overheads but many actually achieve that but no one is going to to get silly speeds as per that link.
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Feeling slightly left out now.
Do we require a new modem or just send new config file to modem
Oh cool might ave to look into that in sep 11 when in my area then cheers ben
Is there a webpage for the new VIP100?
I dont see how the price will include the vat increase at it isn't actually taking effect until the end of Jan 2011. Knowing VM the rollout of 100 meg service will baffle most people, ie how they enable somewhere with a lower population count than somewhere like a main city.
The VAT rise actually takes effect from January 4th.
Taken from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11985874.
I know from speaking to various friends that shops around here have already started adding the new VAT rate so it wouldn't surprise me if Virgin Media started it early. (That is to say those who work in the shops that have started calculating prices at the new rate)
Personally though I don't think they will. They have got a lot of sorting out to do to square up customers bills.
Iain
oh, OK. so basically we didn't get that £3 saving, as the bills still show £45 for the 50MB broadband, and a £20.95 bundle discount.
thanks Virgin!
EDIT : quick check, and we're currently paying a total of £68.49 for triple XL, but the quoted price on the website for that bundle is currently £65.30. might have to give them a quick call....
(unless Ben comes along and tells me i've misread something somewhere....)
Iain
Iain
Download Speed: 87425 kbps (10928.1 KB/sec ) Upload Speed: 9123 kbps (1140.4 KB/sec )
Anyone got any good speed testing sites for 100Mb/s? Speedtest.net only goes upto 50Mb/s!
It may just carry on beyond 50, according to this link
50Mb is set to 53Mb to cover overheads but many actually achieve that but no one is going to to get silly speeds as per that link.
So it will only ever go fast on speedtest.net and now it appears it cant even go full speed on that.
throttled during some periods of the day.
And 100mb comes into it own when you have multiple devices accessing the internet at the same time.
It also has upstream STM if you have the 5Mbit upload
Thanks Ben - as a virgin newbie (a virgin virgin, if you will)... what is the peer to peer / newsgroup management, and what is an STM?