Virgin 200mb Broadband - Pilot

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As it's VM I presume the upload is about 1.7mbit? :p

Though I'll be genuinely interested if the upload is more than 4x1.5mbit.

This of course sounds just like a publicity stunt to take the steam out of FTTC projects.
 
I just went gigabit with a DIR-655 so N wireless too, Why can I not get this in Gosport damn you!
 
Still makes me laugh they going for more and more speed and yet there network can't offer true unlimited downloads as it is.
 
They need to forget this "super dooper fast broadband" thing they keep going on about and complete the roll-out of DOCSIS3, improving people's upload speed would also be a step in the right direction. 10mb is more than enough for anything. don't see the need for 50mb, 100mb, 150mb, 200mb and so on you get the idea.
 
JimAroo said:
don't see the need for 50mb, 100mb, 150mb, 200mb and so on you get the idea.
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So people can download Linux faster!! :rolleyes:

These are the exact people Virgin are aiming this product at.

Imagine if this came out a few years ago when BT were doing 2mb and Virgin were actually 100x faster :eek:
 
Publicity stunt. I can't see the real-world benefit of 200Mbps broadband. Even when the technical issues are sorted (wireless is useless for it, gigabit ethernet links required) it's not going to make browsing the web much faster. As for downloading - who has the need to download over 1TB a day? And it's not like the backhaul would be able to keep up if it did start getting hammered.
 
200Mbps will be usefull, but only for 0.1% of people, and will most likely have a monthly fee to match how exclusive it is. One of the problems for virgin media is trying to market such a product. A single user will start to have problems with the HDD being a bottleneck when maxing the connection, a connection such as this would have to be marketed for a whole household of heavy users. The other issue is that at speeds that high, i daubt very many websites would max it, although usenet and torrents would not have much problem.
 
hahahahahaha

200mb my backside. Yeah, 200mb for an hour a day as long as no one else in your street is downloading anything bigger than a picture of their dog.

I'm glad they're using the ridiculous amount of money they charge me on something useful, rather than improving the service of the customers they have already.
 
VM have plans to roll out streaming HD content which this type of connection will do easily. Also things like iPlayer, YoutubeHD etc all benefit especially on a home LAN where multiple people are accessing streaming content!
 
Ease said:
Actually I live in a house of Electronic Engineers, and we hit the 750MB limit every single day... normally before noon.
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750MB is not close too 1TB, or even that much really...

But the benefit is burst speed. But there are very few legal reasons to need that much bandwidth in the home (would be good for VPN if the upload is good too). Not so legal it is very tempting.

720p TV episode downloaded in less than 1 minute. :D
 
lol.. they cant keep my connection at full speed from 8pm.... :/ and im on 10mb not traffic shaped and get around 1.3mb sometimes less... they have to sort out this !@$$ before starting on faster broadband...
 
They're busy replacing all the UBRs at the moment to facilitate the upgrade of 2MB customers to 10MB, 10MB to 20MB etc etc. So busy in fact that of the 5 upstream UBRs my modem is supposed to talk to 4 are turned off pending upgrade.

Great!

My latency is shot to pieces when everyone comes online first thing and in the evening and a resolution is still a week away.

Well thought out that one. Switch off 80% of your network capacity without telling your first line technical support guys or posting on the website. It'll be worth it in the long run (I hope) but it's a royal pain in the ass atm.

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Darkman said:
They're busy replacing all the UBRs at the moment to facilitate the upgrade of 2MB customers to 10MB, 10MB to 20MB etc etc.
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If 10Mb is becoming 20Mb, what will customers on 20Mb move to? because they wont get upgraded to 50Mb as that was added as a new higher tier service.
 
That's what I asked while I was waiting for second line support to confirm the scale of the problem ;)

Apparently there are no immediate plans to upgrade 20MB customers, or none that he was letting on. As you say that would require different modems.

Makes perfect sense - not.

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