Virgin Media Launch 5Gb Broadband

For anyone curious, I see it is 60 euro per month and sign up is by phone only for now.

I used an address that has it available as my address doesn't work. They are doing work on my street though.

No info on what the upload is. The downside of 1GB cable broadband was always that the upload was only 50mb rather than 100mb on OpenEir Fibre. Does anyone know what the upload is on 1/2/5gb Virgin broadband over fibre?

I assume 2gb+ is not possible over coaxial cable and this is a fibre product.

Rang the number.

Rep said upload speed is 500mb per second.

Not sure if he was just guessing, but he said they didn't know yesterday so he made a point to find out. He knew the answer straight away. So that would definitely make this more appealijg over eir 5gb

Wait, they don't install an ONT?

i wonder if I could just use my own SFP XGS-PON and skip their modem.

Oh very nice.

That is definitely doable. It looks like it spoofs your serial from the modem. Might consider ordering the sfo, getting it installed and testing. 14 day cooling off means I'm not stuck .

If it spoofs the details of the ont on the hub5x. Should be grand..

They might be technically different companies. But if their deploying the same tech. It should work.

Wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't even have VM installed. That was just influencer advertising

This is all marketing. Only the tiniest fraction of customers are even capable of taking advantage of this. The vast, vast majority of customers won't even notice any improvments. They are just in a speed race with the other providers. It's no skin off their nose to change speeds from 1 or 2 to 5Gbps.

A solid home WiFi setup and a stable 500Mbps connection is enough for even busy homes (concurrent video streams, gaming and voice calls) with enough headroom there for burst downloads.

Buy hey, still sounds cool though. I remember when they bumped the speed from 20Mbps to 30Mbs and thought we were living the dream.

When I switched from Starlink to 1Gbps with Digiweb, I did not notice a massive difference in web sites loading, etc. However my cloud storage syncs are FAAAAR faster, as SL used to be 10-15Mbps up, but Digiweb comes in regularly at 110Mbps up.

I had this letter from VM in my letter box (Cork city centre), 10Gb promised. Mind you I got a letter from Siro promising a fibre connection in 2019 & it might only be connected this month or next so I'm not holding my breath!

Got the 5Gbit.

The WAS-110 works. One change from the UK instructions is that Ireland VM uses VLAN 10 instead of 100. Once you change this it automatically connects, and without CGNAT (so "IPv4-mode").

We got this too in Dublin 6W area last week. Yesterday, they called to run the new cable up in the gutters area for me and my neighbours…. SIRO available on our road, so it sounds like fighting the competition!