Virgin Media to launch 100mb service

ANY cable would be nice, I'm sick and tired of ADSL2+22422+42+ AKA lets see how often we can drop your painfully slow connection of a cliff and not turn it back on again till you ring up customer services.
 
Caged said:
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.
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Yeah, that is irritating, but BT's own logic in that statement works against them.

How many areas have BT's 100mbit? As far as I'm aware it's only one town in Kent... but VM are also trialling 200mbit in one town in Kent. So, BT made a truly idiotic statement - it's them who are still trying to catch up.

Not that any of this really matters. Until it's widely available I personally don't care.
 
I thought that as a large proportion of the network was fibre, with just the connection from the cab to the home being co-ax, meant they could get away with calling it fibre.
 
i think this is what is going to happen

10meg will be removed and replaced with 20meg. customers on 10meg will get free upgrade to 20meg and keep existing DOCSIS 2.0 modems.

so the new packages at the end of the year will look something like this


20meg - the 10 & 20meg customers will keep their existing DOCSIS 2.0 modems
50meg
100meg

i think there plan is to move the whole network onto DOCSIS 3.0 eventually


20meg = £20
50meg = £30
100meg = £38
 
Virgin really need to increase their upload speeds. Eventually, people will stop reading the "headline grabbing" download speeds and start looking at the upload speeds too. After all, people are now uploading more than they were before - such as uploading photos to Facebook, etc
 
mcombell said:
Virgin really need to increase their upload speeds. Eventually, people will stop reading the "headline grabbing" download speeds and start looking at the upload speeds too. After all, people are now uploading more than they were before - such as uploading photos to Facebook, etc
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I don't think they will -surely 98% of BB customers only care about the download, as thats what the majority of users need. Only a small percentage want/need/require decent upload speeds, hence the reason its never been a priority for them.

Heck, I'm a fairly heavy web user, and I can only think of a handful of times where I'd wished for a better upload speed. And most of those were work related for sticking ISO's on our servers or similar.

I'm not saying it shouldn't happen, but its basic business principles.
 
paradigm said:
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.
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Wrong, the modems VM supply for the 50Mbit service have Gigabit ethernet. They use the same modems for the 200Mbit service on trial too so they're perfectly capable of handling higher speeds.

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on the 200Mb trial, what router do VM provide? or do they require all people on the trial to directly connect their PC to the modem with a gigabit network card?
 
bledd. said:
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
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I used to work for Telewest/Virgin. I still have mates who work there. As far as they know there is still no plans to cable up non cabled areas sadly.
 
alexhull24 said:
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.
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I agree when I worked for Telewest/Virgin we would have an internal web page where would see what problems where going on in certain areas when customers rang up and complained. Some areas with contention issues etc would have upgrade to UBR due in 10 - 12 months.
 
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lets see what prices they come up with! id pay £20 per month for unlimted 20mb without fup in the eveing! im with o2 at the mo and sync at 18.392 and have the year for free and £11.54 for line rental so il do with £30 inc line rental for 50mb bb! we can only hope as my o2 llu connection is brill and id just on up to 40mb with o2 FTTC than 50mb virgin as virgins t&cs scare me!
 
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