Who just saw BBc Watchdog with Virgin media?

[Christmas themed thank]

The element of truth is that VM cache the most popular videos from YouTube to reduce costs and resources. In theory it's a good idea but tbh they messed it up.

What they don't do is cache every video on the internet. If 100 people connect to a server with 100mbs upload VM have no way to improve that, it just isn't their fault.

This.

 

[M3G4UK]

Apart from their YouTube caching (awful, awful idea - I don't tend to watch popular videos so I suffer at the hands of their caching servers) and occasional DNS screwups, VM are pretty good. I barely ever have service outages and the speed is consistent.

The argument about it being crap because it's not FTTP is rubbish... twisted pairs are capable of 1gbps. Think about it. Copper Coax is a solid, low cost medium.

 

[Steampunk]

Think about it. Copper Coax is a solid, low cost medium.

They don't use copper, just the cheap ally stuff.

 

[asim18]

Personally, I don't see any problem with the "youtube" cache, it's not only YouTube, it covers other things including google.co.uk, maps and images and it's still run by Google. It's a super efficient CDN for Google because they're hosting servers from within VM's own network. I get sub 9ms pings to Google services and they're always fast.

 

[KIA]

There's a huge difference between a VM operated cache and a Google operated cache.