{"id":47498,"date":"2026-07-28T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=47498"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:04:16","slug":"virgin-media-o2-possibly-preps-2gbps-uk-broadband-speed-for-coax-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/07\/virgin-media-o2-possibly-preps-2gbps-uk-broadband-speed-for-coax-network.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media O2 Preps 2Gbps UK Broadband Speed for Coax Network UPDATE2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over two years have passed since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a>) started making 2Gbps download speeds available via their full fibre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) network (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/virgin-media-uk-launch-2gbps-broadband-and-optional-symmetric-speeds.html\">here<\/a>). Sadly that move left most customers on their older <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/docsis\">DOCSIS<\/a> 3.1 powered Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) network stuck with maximum speeds of 1Gbps (1,130Mbps), but this may soon change.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Regular readers may recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> has previously conducted successful trials of 2Gbps speeds on their coax (HFC) network, so we know it works. But until recently they hadn&#8217;t yet provided enough <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/docsis\">DOCSIS<\/a> channels for this to be deployed commercially.<\/p>\n<p>However, a number of VMO2&#8217;s broadband customers recently notified ISPreview that Virgin have &#8211; over the past couple of months or so &#8211; now begun deploying enough downstream channels to potentially support a speed boost from 1Gbps to 2Gbps (the extra capacity is not yet available in every HFC area). The ISP has had to wait until they&#8217;d finished rolling out the previous upstream boost before doing this.<\/p>\n<p>At present, we don&#8217;t know when this speed will actually go live on their old coax network, and it&#8217;s also unclear if they&#8217;ll increase upload speeds at the same time to maintain their previously favoured 10:1 performance ratio (we&#8217;ve not yet seen evidence to show that uploads will go beyond 104Mbps via coax). But officially VMO2&#8217;s position, when asked, is that they have &#8220;<em>nothing to say on this at the moment<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>In the past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> has often speed boosted slower tiers at the same time as increasing their top download speeds, so that&#8217;s also a possibility. But historically Virgin Media&#8217;s PR team has preferred to keep their cards close to their chest on such announcements, so we&#8217;ll just have to wait and see what crops up over the next few months. But for now, if you want 2Gbps speeds (including symmetric) without switching ISP then you&#8217;ll need to be on their live XGS-PON based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> network, including via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/nexfibre\" target=\"_blank\">nexfibre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At present around 9 million of the operator&#8217;s c.19 million UK homes serviceable can access their full fibre network, although not all of those are XGS-PON or 2Gbps ready lines. The reality is that most of their UK network is still HFC and that&#8217;s why any speed boost on coax is going to be more impactful to their wider customer base.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 3:38pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Several readers have provided feedback, which we&#8217;ve been able to check, that appears to indicate the 2Gbps service may already be live on HFC in some specific locations. For example, some addresses in Oldham (e.g. OL9 8HA) return a &#8220;<em>Gig2 Fibre Broadband<\/em>&#8221; (+Netflix with Ads) product on their checker from \u00a351.99 per month that offers 2000Mbps downloads and 200Mbps uploads. We&#8217;re currently running further checks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 5:20pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Virgin Media has confirmed to ISPreview that they&#8217;re running a small trial of the 2Gbps (200Mbps upload) speed service on HFC in some locations, although we don&#8217;t know if the final package will have the same upload speed as the trial (at this stage 100Mbps seems more likely).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over two years have passed since Virgin Media (O2) started making 2Gbps download speeds available via their full fibre (FTTP) network (here). Sadly that move left most customers on their older DOCSIS 3.1 powered Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) network stuck with maximum speeds of 1Gbps (1,130Mbps), but this may soon change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[419,56,32,475],"class_list":["post-47498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-docsis3-1","tag-fttp","tag-o2","tag-virgin-media"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/116994434503345783","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Virgin Media O2 Preps 2Gbps UK Broadband Speed for Coax Network UPDATE2 - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Over two years have passed since Virgin Media (O2) started making 2Gbps download speeds available via their full fibre (FTTP) network (here). 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