1.5Gb broadband anyone?

Thing is, there is no need for that speed really. It only benifits people who illegally download and even then, like they have started doing with the 50mb lines and all other lines, they will cap the speed. They should see about getting the rest of the country 20mb+ lines.

Jealous? Yes i am haha :)
 
One step at a time VM. Could you first provide a wireless cable router that actually works beyond one room. :rolleyes:

Oh, and this 1.5Gb nonsense would still be throttled to near dial up speeds the moment you strayed anywhere near Youtube and like during the evening. :p
 
The whole point is for business use (I am guessing!) though.

My 30mb connection happily downloads large files fast enough for me. Unless its from ITV player. Good god that thing is carp!
 
I use 50mb from Virgin and its great. The cable router was better than the one we had with BT. However unlike BT we now actually get near the speed advertised even when i'm heavily downloading in the evening. I have no issues with VM, but......

One thing i'd like to say is surely going from their fastest right now of 100mb, the next step would be 512mb or 1gbps? 1.5 seems a bit of a jump and the price difference per month would reflect that? Furthermore not many websites would let you connect at that speed, p2p wouldn't even benefit that fast. Business or homes wtih lots of heavy users are the only benefits really
 
They're only trialling it, it isn't as though there's going to be a 1.5Gbps package now. By the time there is one, maybe everything would've been upgraded and there may be a need for it. Imagine years and years back, on a crappy dial-up connection trying to stream a high quality video, you'd probably have to pause it and wait for it to buffer for about 30 minutes. The average internet connection speed in the UK is now 10mbps (I think), and that allows up to stream high quality videos without having to pause them to let them buffer (in most cases).

The point being, in the future, there probably will be a need for it as things get more data intensive, such as 4320p movies XD
 
We have the 100Mb/s package from VM. We get near enough 100 when you're wired to the 'Super Hub'. The wifi range on it is terrible though. I'm waiting for them to release the R27 firmware update so you can just use it as a modem and plug your own router into it. I think it was meant to come out May, but here we are at the end of July and it still isnt out.
 
It's impressive as a technical show point, but utterly useless in a real world scenario given how many servers just won't be able to operate and anywhere near those speeds.

I'd rather they spent the money on this in investing in getting thier services out to larger areas, as large amounts of the country haven't even got access to 4Mbps, let alone 20+mbps. In that article, even Virgin have estimated the national average approx 6 or less, not even the max potential of ADSL max, so IMO that shows how much getting better technology, better cabling etc out is the more important target.
 
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Pointless outside of business use really, You can already stream 1080p on the 50Mb service, and 3D/Higher resolutions are not going to be a big deal. It's upload speeds that need to come up for us to really change how we use computers, which means FTTH.

A nationwide, government funded open access FTTH network would be a far better investment in our economy than the tens of billions they are frittering away on "high speed" (China and Japan would laugh) rail projects.
 
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^ as above really, nothing really needs that bandwith atm. And besides...if you want a business connection at that speed you'd go BT or C&W, in which case 1gbps or above isnt new.
 
Lunatic Dreyfus said:
One step at a time VM. Could you first provide a wireless cable router that actually works beyond one room. :rolleyes:

Oh, and this 1.5Gb nonsense would still be throttled to near dial up speeds the moment you strayed anywhere near Youtube and like during the evening. :p
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My WNR2000 goes through 3 floors and a garage and i still get full bars on my xbox. :D

And i hardly ever get throttled and i download sooooooooooo much. the people managing your area are mean tbh :D
 
I wish that they would just make stuff like this more available and increase that damn upload speed!.......its not like its more expensive to a certain extent they just don't want to let companies off with realist prices....
 
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I wish that they would just make stuff like this more available and increase that damn upload speed!.......its not like its more expensive to a certain extent they just don't want to let companies off with realist prices....
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you know what i wish? i wish they would stop wasting time and money trialing ridiculous and unnecessary speeds for the purpose of a media story and work on providing decent quality internet to the whole of the uk, instead of for the select few. here's hoping.

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Walsandrew said:
you know what i wish? i wish they would stop wasting time and money trialing ridiculous and unnecessary speeds for the purpose of a media story and work on providing decent quality internet to the whole of the uk, instead of for the select few. here's hoping.

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I disagree, considering i remember when they trialled 50mb in london, then a few years ago 100mb was trialled and now it is slowing rolling out across the country... so who knows, in 5 years we could have a XL broadband package for 1.5Gb... or you can have the cheap option which only offers 256mbps :p
 
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