Virgin Media to launch 100mb service

Nymins · 25 Feb 2010 at 13:05

paradigm said:
No they wouldn't. They'd need to supply the DOCSIS 3.0 compatible modems, the router STILL couldn't care less.

Router, modem, i got mixed up. If they needed to supply a modem, i doubt they would do it for free. Great if they did, unlikely for free though. They will probably offer a one off cost for the modem and a free upgrade. But you would still need to pay for the modem, which would be fine imo.

PistolPete · 25 Feb 2010 at 13:08

paradigm said:
No they wouldn't. They'd need to supply the DOCSIS 3.0 compatible modems, the router STILL couldn't care less.

I kinda disagree.

The reason why 50Mb-er get new routers is due to 802.11g routers not being able to provide 50Mb/s bandwidth over wireless where 802.11n could.

Last thing they need to 1,000's of people a day complaining that they are only getting 30Mb/s on the 50Mb/s service.

paradigm · 25 Feb 2010 at 13:13

PistolPete said:
I kinda disagree.

The reason why 50Mb-er get new routers is due to 802.11g routers not being able to provide 50Mb/s bandwidth over wireless where 802.11n could.

Last thing they need to 1,000's of people a day complaining that they are only getting 30Mb/s on the 50Mb/s service.

This is the reason they do supply "n" routers, but they don't "need" to in order to get the service to "work".

SHEDDER1uk · 25 Feb 2010 at 13:18

i would rather them up the upload speeds to something decent first. 1.5 up on 50 meg is a joke.

Nymins · 25 Feb 2010 at 13:21

SHREDDER1UK said:
i would rather them up the upload speeds to something decent first. 1.5 up on 50 meg is a joke.

Think they are trialing 10mb up (could be 5mb, can't remember but i think its 10mb) for the 50mb package. I'd expect that to roll out the same time as the 100mb.

PistolPete · 25 Feb 2010 at 13:21

paradigm said:
This is the reason they do supply "n" routers, but they don't "need" to in order to get the service to "work".

Hence why I kinda disagreed, not completely disagreed.

anything I don't mind · 25 Feb 2010 at 13:37

you give me 10mbit upload and i can make you a baby if you want.

cupofchow · 25 Feb 2010 at 14:43

we need better uploads tho....

Five_Star · 26 Feb 2010 at 11:59

BBC article on this

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8537093.stm

BT spokesperson said:
"Virgin are playing catch-up as customers are already using 100Mbps over BT's network. It is fair to say we are bigger than them and we are growing faster too.

What are BT on about?

anything I don't mind · 26 Feb 2010 at 12:02

that is what you get when you have a socialist media doing stories on socialist BT

this is why the BBC should be privatised cause they tell us who to vote for and are pro NHS and pro BT which are all government connected. no matter how expensive or poor quality the service is. makes me sick.

neologan · 26 Feb 2010 at 13:34

groen said:
that is what you get when you have a socialist media doing stories on socialist BT

this is why the BBC should be privatised cause they tell us who to vote for and are pro NHS and pro BT which are all government connected. no matter how expensive or poor quality the service is. makes me sick.

You've been reading to many dailytech comments me thinks :rolleyes:

or are you an American working in the UK? Either way you are talking nonsense.

Five_Star · 26 Feb 2010 at 14:15

It was the arrogance of the BT spokesperson that got me. Virgin are proposing a 100Mbps service for the end of the year for all its customers and BT can't even get 40Mbps rolled out to a decent number of users.

Who are the BT customers using 100Mbps, businesses that have paid 10K to get the line installed!?

neologan · 26 Feb 2010 at 14:54

even though it doesn't make up for there PR mumbo jumbo, i'd say they were talking aobut their "Fibre to the Home" (not FTTC) service which i think is offering speeds like that for reasonable prices, but it's rare.

Tiamat21 · 26 Feb 2010 at 15:11

Gah, I haven't even tried 50mb yet.
Was on 20 for awhile for free (3months) and I loved it.
God knows what I'd need 100mb broad band for!
thats like 6seconds for one 30min HD episode.

Dangerous · 26 Feb 2010 at 15:12

100mb/200mb will be cool - HD Streaming

jamief · 26 Feb 2010 at 15:16

Tiamat21 said:
Gah, I haven't even tried 50mb yet.
Was on 20 for awhile for free (3months) and I loved it.
God knows what I'd need 100mb broad band for!
thats like 6seconds for one 30min HD episode.

Wee bit off in your calculation there

100Mbit connection is ~10-12 MB/sec download rate.

Assuming your HD TV show is ~1GB, it'd take 100 seconds or so to download (assuming of course a P2P network could saturate it, which I doubt!).

deuse · 26 Feb 2010 at 23:08

VM have only just got my 50Mb working after six months and 7 techs the way it should be :mad:

But I will take the 200Mb cheap please

Caged · 26 Feb 2010 at 23:21

Five_Star said:
It was the arrogance of the BT spokesperson that got me.

And VM claiming their DOCSIS-over-a-broadcast-network broadband is "fibre optic" doesn't? Why would a spokesperson for BT say "wow that's quick. we might as well give up", it's their job to promote their employer.

bJN · 26 Feb 2010 at 23:56

Five_Star said:
Who are the BT customers using 100Mbps, businesses that have paid 10K to get the line installed!?

BT have been trialing their 100Mbps service down in Kent for around 8 months now? Thought that was old news...

*EDIT* First google result: clicky!

And the whole thing with VM expanding to "growing" areas etc, just moved to a new housing estate just outside of Norwich, where around 2000 homes are being built - no cable network capabilities, so shocked by that it was unreal. Although saying that I've been very happy with the Sky Unlimited package so far (averaging 8Mb out of the possible 20Mb down, getting about 0.45Mb up which isn't too bad and a stable 37ms ping).

PermaBanned · 27 Feb 2010 at 00:17

Hopefully they'l give me more than 0.5MB/s?