Virgin Media Speed Upgrades

[xxMATTGxx]

If they can't manage 200MB down then surely they could get 20MB up.

Aren't they wanting to get to 200MB? But instead they are going for 120MB for the time being.

Edit: Kinda read it wrong the first time round but:

Q: I'd heard that there was going to be 200Mb by the Olympics is that still happening?

A: We’re boosting the speeds our customers already get rather than introduce a new tier. While we’ve successfully tested some of the world’s fastest broadband on our network we’re focusing on giving our existing customers even more value. 120Mb will be the fastest widely available broadband in the UK.

[AgnesIO]

Aren't they wanting to get to 200MB? But instead they are going for 120MB for the time being.

Edit: Kinda read it wrong the first time round but:

Tidy avoiding of the question there!

[N!ck]

This is presumably a response to BT's new 100Mbit FTTH package http://www.productsandservices.bt.co...?topicId=33828

[xxMATTGxx]

This is presumably a response to BT's new 100Mbit FTTH package http://www.productsandservices.bt.co...?topicId=33828

Virgin already did their 100Mb package but yeah they would have to keep up. It's great to see both companies offering such speeds though!

[Mathew]

Oh nice we should be getting 60Mb then. We've had just a couple of issues with Virgin where the connection has gone down for a night or two. Their customer service is generally quite efficient though. The Internet went down last month on a Tuesday and we were told it wouldn't come back until the Friday when an engineer was sorting out the problem in the area. It was back the following evening though so I don't know what was going on.

It used to be a bit slow and temperamental but it's significantly improved since the last upgrade.

[Markeh]

No, we must be on Fibre then. I didn't think their original cable services classed as fibre optic to be honest. Oh good, an upgrade to 20Mb. We already got upgraded from 2Mb to 10Mb a couple of years back.

[Recursion]

No, we must be on Fibre then. I didn't think their original cable services classed as fibre optic to be honest. Oh good, an upgrade to 20Mb. We already got upgraded from 2Mb to 10Mb a couple of years back.

Cable isn't fibre.

[Stephen!]

Virgin Media brand it as such though. I don't know why they bothered to route fibre all the way to the street but didn't bother to add the extra few meters to have it going straight in to the home.

[xxMATTGxx]

If your on their cable or fibre optic services then you will get the upgrade. If your internet comes though the phone line then no
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[Recursion]

Virgin Media brand it as such though. I don't know why they bothered to route fibre all the way to the street but didn't bother to add the extra few meters to have it going straight in to the home.

Expense.

There's no point right now, if they bring FTTC into the majority of areas, they can reliably give people speeds up to 1Gb (possibly more, ignoring the backhaul), they can always do FTTH when we're surpassing those speeds in the future I guess.

LTE will become very interesting for people when it becomes the defacto standard though. Public IPv6 addresses for all your devices with LTE microcells in businesses and homes using public cell sites, could theoretically provide 1Gb/s or more over the air.