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Virgin 1Gb now available.

loyatemu

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/virgin-makes-gigabit-internet-available-across-its-service-1.4334185

TBH I don't see the point of 1Gb for domestic users, 500Mb should be sufficient for 99.9% of subscribers (I downgraded to 250Mb and didn't notice any difference). But anyway, it's now (or shortly) available to VM subscribers.

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theteal

bk wrote: »

They offer 1Gig in the UK in select cities:
https://www.virginmedia.com/shop/broadband/gig1-gigabit-broadband

Indeed, Reading

is the closest but no exactly close

Wanderer78 wrote: »

apologies, i meant its fiber to the house, then copper into the house, apparently

No, it is fiber as far as your local cabinet, a box that would be somewhere in your neighbourhood. It is then coax from the local cabinet to each house in your neighbourhood.

It is called a Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) network. It isn't FTTH.

CoBo55

lotas wrote: »

the core network is Fiber. Depending on the area, the Fiber could end at the top of the road, or could run down the eves of the house and terminate outside your house. but from there on, its copper...

Co-ax for the last bit, while being actually made of copper it's very different to the copper twisted pair that people think you're referring to.

Captain Flaps

Recently moved from the 250 to the 500mb, even with a decent mesh wifi setup I'm very prone to congestion. The relative speeds I was getting have doubled, but the absolute max I've seen from the 500 wired in is 400ish, with 150-200 being a typical good day and 100-150 being quite common. I'm not sure I'd pay the extra 15 odd euro just to drag my speed up to what's advertised on the package I'm currently paying for.

Wanderer78

stevek93 wrote: »

It isn't it is copper to the house, now correct me if I am wrong but I don't think I am.

apologies, i meant its fiber to the house, then copper into the house, apparently

theteal wrote: »

I excitedly looked up the UK site. M500 is still the top plan for us over here

They offer 1Gig in the UK in select cities:
https://www.virginmedia.com/shop/broadband/gig1-gigabit-broadband

lotas

just been on with Virgin Business and the max plan they currently offer is 500/50 (unofficially) and 400/40 (officially). I am on the 500/50, so happy days. The lad did say that 1Gb would be offered to business by the end of the year... they are testing new modems for business customers now (we dont get the usual VM Hub... mine is a Hitron device which can be bridged on request) but he did confirm that 1000mb/s down and 100mb/s up would be offered...

paddydriver

Mav11 wrote: »

Quality and stability is far more important than headline speed.

Latency.. Jitter etc.. Have seen VoIP etc perform far better on a basic Eir 10Mb DSL connection than a 400Mb Virgin coax connection.

Feasog Dearg

loyatemu wrote: »

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/virgin-makes-gigabit-internet-available-across-its-service-1.4334185

TBH I don't see the point of 1Gb for domestic users, 500Mb should be sufficient for 99.9% of subscribers (I downgraded to 250Mb and didn't notice any difference). But anyway, it's now (or shortly) available to VM subscribers.

Agreed - the most important thing is low latency and stability. We were on VM for years and it was decent, but have recently moved to SIRO (VF) and the difference is incredible. Instant media, all the time, on the 300MB plan.

theteal

I excitedly looked up the UK site. M500 is still the top plan for us over here

Crazy, if they aren't offering 100mb/s upload, then this product is pretty much pointless to most people. Stick to 500/50 if you need higher upload speed and save money.

On the question of which router, they say they are using a new V2 router, but from the pics on the site, it looks to be the Hub 4 router that they use in the UK for their 1Gig service.

The Real B-man

What planet are they on €85 with a 10mb upload :rolleyes:

Hold on a second, it looks like VM have just changed their website and they are now saying that this has only 50mb/s upload speed, NOT 100mb/s like it said just a few minutes ago!!!!

Brilliant that VM are now finally offering this. It means that over night something like 40% of homes in Ireland have access to 1Gbps if they need it! Fantastic.

This means a lot of Ireland is finally catching up with the best speeds in Europe (Asia is a different story). Between this, Siro, NBI and Eir's Rural and Urban FTTH rollouts, there is light at the end of the tunnel for most people in Ireland to get at least one option of truly high speed broadband as good as anywhere in Europe.

Having said that, I agree with what others are saying, that most people don't really need this speed. I've been working from home for years as a software engineer and I'm on VM 250 and I find it perfectly fine for my needs. Sure I wouldn't mind having 100mb/s upload for the odd VM image upload, but I'm not sure it is really worth an extra €20 for that. If work paid for it cool, but otherwise not really worth it IMO.

I'd also warn people that you are unlikely to actually get see real world 1Gb/s speeds unless you have absolutely tip top gear all round. Ideally you will want to be using gigabit ethernet to connect your pc to your router. If using wifi you are unlikely to see these speeds, you would probably want to invest in a high quality wifi router and also your laptop and other devices need to support newer wifi features to get even close to 1Gb/s over wifi. And even after all that, you will most likely be limited by the download speed of the servers you are connecting to, your works VPN servers, etc.

Having said all that, I'm delighted for the niche users who can actually benefit from this and need it.

beauf

With downloads your often limited by the server your downloading from, not your connection.

Bubonic

Are any details of the new modem known? Like does it bridge and so on?

mad m

dhaughton99 wrote: »

Bet everyone’s bill goes up by €3 next month to pay for this. Gamer or not!

And then the phone calls start to say I’m cancelling yada yada:D

stevek93

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Tech said it was fibre to my house, I'm not convinced though, but shur I ll worry about that in a couple of decades

It isn't it is copper to the house, now correct me if I am wrong but I don't think I am.

dhaughton99

Bet everyone’s bill goes up by €3 next month to pay for this. Gamer or not!

boars

TP Link Archer C4000 (ac4000)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07T7NSSFH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I got it at a discount- currently €157.

Great router- 3 different bands (2x 5g, 1x 2.4g).

2x phones on one of the 5g
everything else on the other 5g
nothing on the 2.4g at the moment.

Much easier port forwarding settings and other custom options. Everything about it is better than the superhub 3.0. Better security, better parental settings, can create guest network. 5 stars, would recommend. took 10 minutes to setup.

Just to add- it doesn't matter how fast your internet speed is or how expensive your home router is- if the devices you are using aren't equipped with a decent internal network card or have bottlenecks at the cpu level you wont get faster internet speeds.

irishgeo

boars wrote: »

i have 350mbs,

My only issue with the 350 is that the Suberhub Router is a piece of cheap crap regarding the wifi (it cant handle more than 9/10 wireless devices). I went into the settings and put it into modem mode, connected my own €150 router from amazon and wifi is perfect.

Are they releasing a different router with the 1 gig broadband?

To be honest 350 is more than enough for my needs at this time however, there are only two of us in the house using it- however I will probably upgrade in about 5 years i'd say when baby gets older.

What router you buy?

[Deleted User]

loyatemu wrote: »

we have customers with 100s of users on 1Gb connections and they never max the connection out, they don't even come close.

I'd be interested to know if anyone manages to download an Xbox or Steam game at > 500Mb/s.

You'd need to have decent quality hardware to manage those download/write speeds. There's absolutely no chnce an Xbox or Ps4 would come close to utilising even 250 Meg connection. I remember downloading forza on PC and xbox (both wired connections.) and the xbox took hours longer.

I wouldn't be surprised if Steams CDN could handle that as long as there isn't a hight load on their end. The COD downloads are petty quick outside of massive updates when everyone's trying to download at the same time.

Alun

I'm still on the old 240 Mb service and for downloads that suits me fine, no need for anything higher, but a better upload speed would help with cloud backups certainly.

Wanderer78

lotas wrote:

the core network is Fiber. Depending on the area, the Fiber could end at the top of the road, or could run down the eves of the house and terminate outside your house. but from there on, its copper...

Tech said it was fibre to my house, I'm not convinced though, but shur I ll worry about that in a couple of decades

colm_mcm

Wanderer78 wrote: »

I was informed by a virgin tech, that a large proportion of their network is actually fibre, including to the home, this true? Think we re on a 250 line, no need for 1gb, 250 is more than enough

A huge proportion of their network may be capable of having FTTH but as it stands they have HFC Coax from the node to the customers outlet box.

Maybe they’re retrofitting fibre but it isn’t plug and play for most customers I’d imagine.

lotas

Wanderer78 wrote: »

I was informed by a virgin tech, that a large proportion of their network is actually fibre, including to the home, this true?

the core network is Fiber. Depending on the area, the Fiber could end at the top of the road, or could run down the eves of the house and terminate outside your house. but from there on, its copper...

loyatemu

we have customers with 100s of users on 1Gb connections and they never max the connection out, they don't even come close.

I'd be interested to know if anyone manages to download an Xbox or Steam game at > 500Mb/s.

Wanderer78 wrote: »

I was informed by a virgin tech, that a large proportion of their network is actually fibre, including to the home, this true? Think we re on a 250 line, no need for 1gb, 250 is more than enough

it's mostly hybrid fibre/cable (HFC) - fibre to a box somewhere in the area, coax cable into the house. The speed attainable over the coax bit is dependent on the version of DOCSIS running on their equipment and how they decide to dimension the network. VM may also be installing fibre to the home in new estates.

JDxtra

Yggr of Asgard wrote: »

Does someone know if this is a different modem to the current hub?

Yes, it will be a new modem.

Yggr of Asgard

Does someone know if this is a different modem to the current hub?