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[Bowdon]

Rumour Mill: Virgin Media Prepping 300Mbps Broadband Upgrade

Reports indicate that Virgin Media are likely to upgrade their top 200Mbps (VIVID 200) tier to 300Mbps (20Mbps upload), possibly at some point during this autumn, with the existing paid HomeWorks+ add-on also being boosted from 300Mbps to 350Mbps at the same time.

The move, which is yet to be officially confirmed, would not come as a surprise and indeed we were initially expecting it to surface last year before instead being presented with a lesser boost of up to 200Mbps. At the time we suggested that the 300Mbps upgrade was likely to follow later, probably after Virgin’s new SuperHub 3 router had been given a wider distribution.

Since then we have seen the cable operator launch a paid upgrade to 300Mbps via their HomeWorks+ add-on for domestic based home workers, yet their top consumer package has remained stubbornly stuck at 200Mbps (plus the new 200Mbps GAMER service with faster upstream and no traffic management).

[Chrysalis]

QoS v2 alongside it ?

* Chrysalis hides from ignition.

[niemand]

This is from a Swedish cable company running the same kit VM are, not the newer DoCSIS 3.1 standard. Still a fair bit of mileage there just through adding in new capacity rather than making huge changes.