{"id":13468,"date":"2017-02-09T11:10:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T11:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=13468"},"modified":"2017-02-09T11:18:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T11:18:45","slug":"virgin-media-uk-squeezes-little-extra-broadband-speed-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/02\/virgin-media-uk-squeezes-little-extra-broadband-speed-subscribers.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media UK Squeeze a Little Extra Broadband Speed for Subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cable operator <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-65\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"virgin media\">Virgin Media<\/a> appears to be quietly tweaking the &#8216;<em>Max Traffic Rate<\/em>&#8216; (speed profile) for some of their broadband packages, which for example means that those with their 300Mbps HomeWorks+ add-on may theoretically be able to achieve 345Mbps (its old profile was 330Mbps).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Similarly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkbroadband.com\/news\/7636-top-tiers-at-virgin-media-may-be-going-slightly-faster.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thinkbroadband<\/a> has spotted that the same change appears to be occurring on slower consumer packages. For example, some of those on the <strong>VIVID 200Mbps<\/strong> service (old profile 220Mbps) are now seeing a new <strong>Max Traffic Rate<\/strong> of 230Mbps. At present this is only benefiting downstream (download) performance, while uploads remain the same.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>A Spokesperson for <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-65\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"virgin media\">Virgin Media<\/a> said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We often tweak our network profiles to ensure that we continue to deliver the speeds we sell as the volume of customers on our higher tiers increases.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth pointing out that the fastest consumer package on Virgin Media&#8217;s service is actually their hidden <strong>VIVID 300Mbps<\/strong> option, although at the last check we were told that this wasn&#8217;t yet being offered to the operator&#8217;s entire cable base (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/09\/rumour-mill-virgin-media-prepping-300mbps-broadband-upgrade.html\">here<\/a>) and that&#8217;s why you don&#8217;t see it on their public product page.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO of Virgin Media, <strong>Tom Mockridge<\/strong>, has long promised that they would always stay ahead of <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-46 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"openreach\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.openreach.co.uk\">Openreach<\/a> (<a class=\"shortlink shortlink-145\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"BT\">BT<\/a>) in terms of consumer broadband speeds and as such they&#8217;ll no doubt be keeping an eye on their arch rival&#8217;s new 330Mbps capable <strong><a class=\"shortlink shortlink-112 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/gfast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"g.fast\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_cable.php\">G.fast<\/a><\/strong> product that is about to begin its pre-commercial pilot phase (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/01\/bt-openreach-start-pilot-330mbps-g-fast-broadband-138000-uk-premises.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Similarly <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-145\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"BT\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-110 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"fttp\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_fibre_optic.php\">FTTP<\/a> service can also offer speeds of <strong>500Mbps<\/strong> and <strong>1Gbps<\/strong>, which is something that Virgin Media cannot yet match. On the other hand these have limited coverage and aren&#8217;t yet being offered by any ISPs. Both options are perhaps also too expensive for normal residential use (i.e. they&#8217;re more targeted at SMEs). However we have heard whispers that Virgin Media might be conducting limited closed trials of a 500Mbps package, but that has not been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>One other reason for Virgin Media&#8217;s tweaking could be because it helps the operator to meet the <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-125 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/asa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"advertising standards authority\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.asa.org.uk\">Advertising Standards Authority<\/a>&#8217;s (ASA) 10% rule for advertised speeds. Otherwise we&#8217;d expect the new profile tweak to show up in Virgin Media&#8217;s next batch of official performance results (the one for January 2017 is largely unchanged &#8211; below).<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #339966;\">VM&#8217;s Typical Broadband Speeds for January 2017<\/span><\/h3>\n<table width=\"666\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Product<\/th>\n<th>Advertised Download Speed<\/th>\n<th>Advertised Upload Speed<\/th>\n<th>Average download speed at peak times (8pm-10pm)<\/th>\n<th>Average Download speed over 24Hr<\/th>\n<th>Average upload speed at peak times (8pm &#8211; 10pm)<\/th>\n<th>Average upload speed over 24Hr<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SuperFibre 50<\/td>\n<td>50Mbps<\/td>\n<td>3Mbps<\/td>\n<td>45.94Mbps<\/td>\n<td>51.41Mbps<\/td>\n<td>3.01Mbps<\/td>\n<td>3.02Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vivid 100<\/td>\n<td>100Mbps<\/td>\n<td>6Mbps<\/td>\n<td>87.23Mbps<\/td>\n<td>100.89Mbps<\/td>\n<td>5.95Mbps<\/td>\n<td>6.00Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vivid 200<\/td>\n<td>200Mbps<\/td>\n<td>12Mbps<\/td>\n<td>157.58Mbps<\/td>\n<td>193.01Mbps<\/td>\n<td>11.91Mbps<\/td>\n<td>12.00Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vivid 200 Gamer<\/td>\n<td>200Mbps<\/td>\n<td>20Mbps<\/td>\n<td>184.2Mbps<\/td>\n<td>200.65Mbps<\/td>\n<td>19.97Mbps<\/td>\n<td>20.35Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cable operator Virgin Media appears to be quietly tweaking the &#8216;Max Traffic Rate&#8216; (speed profile) for some of their broadband packages, which for example means that those with their 300Mbps HomeWorks+ add-on may theoretically be able to achieve 345Mbps (its old profile was 330Mbps).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[99,474,56,417,69,475],"class_list":["post-13468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-asa","tag-bt","tag-fttp","tag-g-fast","tag-bt-openreach","tag-virgin-media"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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