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goldenface
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Virgin Eyes 150mb Broadband Speed
Virgin Media will offer 100 to 150Mbps broadband speeds up to two years before BT completes its rival fibre network.
"We have an opportunity with our network to provide significantly higher speeds," Virgin Media's chief executive Neil Berkett told BBC News.
BT has said its fibre network will hit the first crop of UK cities by early 2010 and will be complete by 2012.
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lukechris
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Fast internet is all good, but, IMO, your actual download speed (for files etc) are not any faster, because the people's web server's run at different speeds, the more they pay the faster it is, one minute I can be downloading something at 30kbps, then 1126kbps, stupid
In fact, it is only good fr rxbox live to have good fast internet
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RyaN
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This is all for the future though when streaming HD videos etc will be the norm and faster download speed will be necessary |
voda_jon
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am lovin the 50mb virgin am on at the mo. i use the metaboli service for PC games and it flies downloading full games... all legit too... getting around 5000kb on quite periods but generally about 2-3000.
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goldenface
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Faster the better as far as I care, lord knows we'll only be demanding better data speeds in the future.
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ayejatt
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now only if they can sort the uploads out now..
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yea g
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Just a question:
How much bandwidth would you get on this thing?
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voda_jon
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@yea_g it would come under their fair use policy... now i know on the 50mb i get called once i have downloaded over 20gb in a month. so as long as u keep with that u should be fine but am sure they will have to change the fair use policy as 150mb is meant for hd films and as such prob download a shed load more than 20gb a month if u use it properly. |
blerk
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Download limits are so 1990's. Britain is stuck in the past when it comes to that. Even things that are advertised as unlimited are not unlimited, and a FUP shouldn't mean you get called at 20GB. Back in Holland I had 20Mbit ADSL2 and I downloaded a lot, over 100GB per month and I never got called or anything. 20GB is just silly, when you have several people in the house doing some browsing, downloading and youtubing you'll finish that 20GB in a week. I wonder why they call it FUP if in reality it is just a 20GB cap. Never really understood why the Brits take these practises and don't all jump ship to real unlimited ISPs such a Be (bethere.co.uk).
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RyaN
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^^ yup, i'm with Be* Unlimited, never been pulled up about the amount i've downloaded - some months i'm guessing it would'nt have been much less than 100GB. Personally i wouldnt be able to bear the throttling practice and stupid FUP of ISP's like Virgin. I left plus.net because of that, and that was 4 years ago
In all fairness though if everyone were on Be* connections, i think they'd have to put measures in place.
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QVGA
Joined: May 23, 2006
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I really really dont see the point of a 20mb connection with a 20GB limit. Its like having a Bugatti Vayron and be limited to 60Mph.
I have a 1mbps connection with literally unlimited bandwidth and i am happy.
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arien617
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I have a 10mb connection, but my 700mb cap kicks in at 7pm, and ends at midnight.
To be fair, though, it does stop others hogging all the bandwidth. We would be pretty screwed without.
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blerk
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Why you all think you would be screwed or things would be worse without these caps? Look at other countries, they have no caps and no problems, Sweden, Norway have 100mbit as the norm in homes and no problems at all. Back in Holland its the same, you're led to believe the internet will grind to halt when you get what you pay for, I pity that in a way. If they ISPs here can't keep their networks properly working then that is their fault, they should invest in it. Then again seeing most of the phone copper is above ground, there's still a long way to go here.
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arien617
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No, seriously, cable broadband speeds fluctuate like crazy.
I can be getting 10mb downstream, and suddenly find it dropping to 3mb a few seconds later.
As far as I am aware, entire areas are connected to servers via one bunch of optic fibres. If everyone is downloading at once, what's going to happen?
Everyone's connections will slow down. It works. And, if you hit the cap, all that happens is that your speed is throttled until midnight, after which everything returns to as it was.
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blerk
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But that is not your fault. I used to have cable back home in Holland. If there were speed fluctuations due to high demand, they would upgrade the local switch and add more capacity. Not cap their customers. If they do not invest and upgrade their networks properly people will (hopefully) jump shit when other alternatives come available. Several EU countries already rolling out high speed mobile networks (25mbit), wimax and others. Britain along with Belgium are lagging behind when it comes to ADSL/Cable networks. Its sad to see a city like London is still so outdated with a lot of things. Water pipes break every week causing huge delays in traffic, the tubes are still from the 70's, copper wires run above ground and are split in every street on the big poles. The last thing is definitely bad for ADSL2, the copper needs to be under ground so it gets less noise and gives better line quality. But I guess it is too late for that, because it would mean streets have to be dug up. In countries like Sweden, Norway and Holland we dug op all the streets years ago and laid fibre, copper and other cables. Most of those cables are so called "dark" (not in use yet) it was costly at the time but there is no need to open up the streets again in a long time. Here we need streets dug up and houses rewired. Sad but true.
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Posted: 2009-03-24 13:09
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