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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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Posted: 2009-03-24 13:09:36
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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
[ This Message was edited by: lukechris on 2009-03-24 16:05 ]
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Posted: 2009-03-24 17:05:14
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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
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Posted: 2009-03-24 17:12:43
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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.
J.
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Posted: 2009-03-24 17:59:15
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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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Posted: 2009-03-24 19:16:40
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now only if they can sort the uploads out now..
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Posted: 2009-03-25 00:33:10
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Just a question:
How much bandwidth would you get on this thing?
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Posted: 2009-03-25 08:13:07
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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.
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Posted: 2009-03-25 11:06:51
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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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Posted: 2009-03-25 12:59:55
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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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Posted: 2009-03-25 13:59:28
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