Virgin Media to launch 100mb service

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE61N11L20100225?type=marketsNews

....The firm, which competes with pay-TV company BSkyB (BSY.L) and telecoms groups such as BT (BT.L), also showed it was winning the battle to offer the fastest broadband speeds in the country, as it unveiled plans for a new 100 Mb service.
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i would laugh if i have 100mbit/0.05 mbit

serious, i will laugh my ass off.

making some serious money though, who said fiber infrastructure was not a good deal
The improved operating performance enabled Virgin to post fourth quarter revenues of 980 million pounds ($1.50 billion), compared to a Reuters poll expecting 963 million pound
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Will it be as slow as 50mb though.

I get 40-50meg downloads but it doesnt feel fast never did.

I know its one of those you wont notice it until you have to use 20 meg again (Jeez hope that never happens)


They will end up capping 50 mb when 100 mb comes out so people on 50 will jump accross
 
Having been an ntl customer for about 7 years now, I'll be sad to move back to ADSL this weekend, moving from 20mb virgin to a flakey 1mb bt :(

Wish they would vastly expand their network to cover the whole of the UK
 
No No NOOOO way.

I had 50mb/s service then moved property. Now my Flat at best gets 2mb/s. ARRR

I will move again to a 100mb area if this come off :)
 
This is a joke. There are so many issues with the network at present - they should be concentrating on those first. I get packet loss most of the day and have been since late october with no resolution from them. It's because the area is oversubsribed and can't cope. Not impressed.
 
DAvE18 said:
wonder if they will increase the upload as there is trials of both 5mb and 10mb upload going on.
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They will have to, due to BT new fibre optic network being 10mb standard upload but only 40mb download.

Hopfully be free upgrades.
10mb > 20mb
20mb > 50mb
50mb > 100mb

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The new speed tier is designed for tech-savvy users who want the very best the internet has to offer, and will act as Virgin Media's flagship product in a strong portfolio of broadband speeds.
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No free upgrade then :(

groen said:
making some serious money though, who said fiber infrastructure was not a good deal
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They've only invested in heavily populated areas and are doing it extremely slowly. that is why it's a good investment. Rolling out fibre optics large scale and to less populated areas would see that revenue plummet.
 
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Nymins said:
Think the routers VM supply with the 50mb package are compatible up to 200Mb/s. Uses DOCSIS3, so the current routers for XXL customers should work.
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Erm, the routers couldn't care less what version of DOCSIS the WAN uses, as it's the modem's job to convert that to ethernet which is what the router will use.

The modems support DOCSIS 3.0, and will theoretically support up to 100Mb/s however given that they only have a 10/100 port, and you never EVER acheive 100% throughput, probably more like 75%, the 100MB/s service will probably need new modems to fully support the speed.

I'd not like to be trying to acheive 100MB/s throughput on the supplied router either, for both the ethernet theoretical maximum vs actual achievable maximum reason, and due to the NAT and various other policies really hammering the quite pathetic processors in cheap consumer grade routers.
 
paradigm said:
Erm, the routers couldn't care less what version of DOCSIS the WAN uses, as it's the modem's job to convert that to ethernet which is what the router will use.

The modems support DOCSIS 3.0, and will theoretically support up to 100Mb/s however given that they only have a 10/100 port, and you never EVER acheive 100% throughput, probably more like 75%, the 100MB/s service will probably need new modems to fully support the speed.

I'd not like to be trying to acheive 100MB/s throughput on the supplied router either, for both the ethernet theoretical maximum vs actual achievable maximum reason, and due to the NAT and various other policies really hammering the quite pathetic processors in cheap consumer grade routers.
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Just relaying what i read on CF. 50mb is on the DOCSIS3 platform, 10mb and 20mb aren't. If they upgraded 20mb to 50mb they would need to supply Wireless 'N' routers to all the upgraded customers.
 
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my 50mb has been tip top since it was installed, so will be looking to go for this if its available in my area, would really like the 200mb tho too :D
 
Nymins said:
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Just relaying what i read on CF. 50mb is on the DOCSIS3 platform, 10mb and 20mb aren't. If they upgraded 20mb to 50mb they would need to supply Wireless 'N' routers to all the upgraded customers.
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No they wouldn't. They'd need to supply the DOCSIS 3.0 compatible modems, the router STILL couldn't care less.
 
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