Virgin Media 50mb Package Question

[Agnostic Bear]

That's just the cable technology used to connect you to VM's system, nothing to do with the capacity of their backbone network.

I'd imagine they can handle it seeming as they're trialling 400Gbps from Manchester to London.

[Ardemax]

I'm with Virgin Media atm, can't report any problems what-so-ever.

Just for you to know

[N!ck]

I'd imagine they can handle it seeming as they're trialling 400Gbps from Manchester to London.

Where'd you hear this? 400Gbps is basically the whole capacity of LINX.

[Source]

IMO I do not see the point in 50MB yet... Simply because a lot of servers in datacentres have 10Mbit port on them and you can only download as fast as the server can handle. I also think that the more people get 50MB the more congested the network will become and nobody will get the 50MB (well anywhere near that speed).

Every server I have bought has either had a 100mbps dedicated port (UK) or a 1gbps dedicated port (US) not burst... I think thats a bad comment to make. What about sites that don't use single servers? Torrents (example) can use all of that bandwidth and go higher.

I agree that the network may get conjested, as it happened in my area when more people started getting the 20mbit service... although they fixed it within 2 months by introducing new local connection points and better servers. Lets hope VM have this planned, as they really need to get their reputation back up, as since they bought out NTL and Telewest they seem to get really bad reviews. Although, personally, they have been great.