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Virgin Media preparing to offer symmetrical upload speeds?

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Virgin Media - a UK-based fibre-optic ISP - recently sent me a survey about their potential product offerings. It was desperate to know if I wanted bundled streaming video (no), or Sky Sports (LOL no), or any other digital subscriptions (no, go away), or a landline (what, is this the 1990s?). They even wanted to know if I'd pay extra for priority support.

Priority support add on for £3.

In amongst all the other offers, they asked whether I would be interested in paying more for symmetric Internet speeds!

List of proposed upgrades including Symmetrical data add on for £4.

Here are some of the offerings they proposed. I must not that these are from a market research exercise. Whether they'll ever launch, and whether the prices are accurate, is something we'll have to wait to see.

List of different broadband packages each with symmetrical speed add ons.

As I've mentioned before, I like my 500Mbps down - but the 50Mbps upload is a bit of a drag. So I eagerly answered "yes" to anything that looked like faster upload bandwidth.

I've no idea if this will actually materialise. And I can only hope those prices are realistic.

If you're interested in joining Virgin Media, you can get £50 if you join with my link.

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  3. @Edent My experience of Virgin Media was they're great if you happen to live somewhere the connection is good, and terrible if you move in somewhere their connection is shit. I moved from having several good experiences with them and their forebears in Milton Keynes and London, until I reached my current home where their speed averaged about 1/20th of what I was paying for, and they refused to come and look at it until the year was up and I cancelled the service with great pleasure. The whole experience was so thoroughly miserable that I don't see any way I would ever trust them again, and I generally take the time to respond to posts like this so people know to give them no benefit of the doubt in the initial month... if you move in somewhere with a slower than expected Virgin connection, start making your escape immediately!

    It's a real shame, because when they're good they're a really good service, technically speaking! But when they're bad they're unbelievably cataclysmically bad, in every respect but specially customer service.

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  9. I recall years ago that an ISP would offer a premium service for gaming users that reduced the latency on gaming traffic, at the cost of slower emails etc while gaming, which was a sensible compromise.

    That's a service -- if marketed as "super gaming woo" that I bet a decent amount of customers would pay extra for.

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