BT to pump £1.5bn into broadband

[Darkwave]

haha, downloading a HD movie from iTunes and then end up having to wait a day.

Pretty much my experience with a certain cable provider, so I switched to an 'inferior' (yet somehow better and cheaper) service. Granted I was downloading from usenet and not iTunes, but that's not the point.

 

[Grandmaster Fap!]

"ZOMG BT offer you the fastest speeds on 'tinternetweb, download warez at a blistering 60mbps* for only $30 per month!!!11"




*untill we throttle you to 1meg for 8 hours a day 'cause thats what everyone does lolztbhbbq.

 

[gillywibble]

Isn't an exchange upgrade due next year?

 

[OzyOly]

Isn't an exchange upgrade due next year?

To ADSL2+?

 

[Indy500]

This will probably only be for urban centres, I can't imagine them spending money running fibre into smaller towns and villages.

 

[Begbie]

That would be awesome better than the 3meg we have here!

 

[Azagoth]

This will probably only be for urban centres, I can't imagine them spending money running fibre into smaller towns and villages.

No, but I bet they'll more than happy to pass on the extra charges to those same rural customers to fund this move.

 

[Windle]

Will they have to dig up roads etc. in order to get this working? If so, that could be a major hurdle :/

No, most telecomms cables run in ducting in the ground and it would mostly be a case of swapping the cabling into the junction boxes. The problem point would be from the main road to the house.

 

[Craig321]

40 to 60mbps? I'd be happy with 2mbps. Still on 512k here.

 

[Marky]

Don't get too excited. I'm sure they'll cap or 'traffic-shape' it to the hilt so you might as well be on a 2Mbit connection or ADSL anyway.

To be sure... to be sure

 

[Stretch]

My virgin connection is being upgraded to 50Mb sometime this year

 

[Indy500]

No, but I bet they'll more than happy to pass on the extra charges to those same rural customers to fund this move.

Well if the PHORM deal is anything to go by, the customer is the last thing they're thinking about.

 

[Darkwave]

My virgin connection is being upgraded to 50Mb sometime this year

I hope you only plan to download for half an hour a day.

 

[Sweetloaf]

Isn't the throttling simply to reduce contention? I don't actually think they throttle your speeds simply for a laugh at your expense. Is that actually an issue with Fibre Optics?

 

[Indy500]

Isn't the throttling simply to reduce contention, I don't actually think they throttle your speeds simply for a laugh at your expense? Is that actually an issue with Fibre Optics?

Its because Virgin shoved on too many people (in the order of a few million). Now that they have realised this isn't sustainable, throttling and PHORM's "webwise" are being implemented.

 

[David91]

basically yeah oversubscribed areas and too many people on the apparently falling apart and out of date network.

so they limit you to 50% or 75% of your speed if you do anything but check your emails during the most of the day.

they also try to defend themselves as not completly ripping you off by saying the cap only affects the "top 5% of users" which is a blatent lie

Good ole VM. will be switching to BT if they're not as horrible with traffic shaping if they come to my area

 

[furnace]

I will be switching to BT from Virgin the second BT engineers put the soil over the new cables. Totally fed up and disgusted with VM as of late.

 

[snowdog]

A bit late, but good none-the-less for you guys .

 

[West]

See thats the problem round here, we only have the Copper.. does this mean as a Virgin customer we would get the chance to get the fibre op or does Virgin have to do the underground upgrade?

 

[lsg1r]

Well that isn't coming to me anytime soon then, I haven't even got a date for adsl2 to be installed at my exchange.