Virgin pilots 200Mbps broadband

[Stephen!]

So your not getting 50mbps download then..... not even 20mbps.... so why even have optic fibre at all.... Your not even using the full connection...

At above: He may be thinking in hardware terms, but I agree he shouldnt have used "over"

You've got it all wrong. It's not 50 Mega BYTES per second it's 50 Mega BITS per second.

50megabits per second is around 6000kb/s.

[Berch]

So your not getting 50mbps download then..... not even 20mbps.... so why even have optic fibre at all.... Your not even using the full connection...

At above: He may be thinking in hardware terms, but I agree he shouldnt have used "over"

I don't think where on the same page here as said on the next page I think your getting Megabits and Megabytes mixed up.

He is getting around 95% throughput of his 50Mbps connection which is great.

At least someone knows what their talking about. Getting 95% I'm only to happy about.

6*1024 = 6144 not 6000.

You'll never get over 6MiB/s with VM until they release something faster.

True. But it's still nice to download at those speeds as I'm sure you know being on the same package.

[CleanFilm]

Just think, you will NEED gigabit LAN or Wireless N to use the full potential. No doubt VM will provide this free.

Gigabit lan is easy to reach for wired, wireless no way not yet, N is still 'DRAFT' and not final yet so its still in development.

I mean my motherboard on my pc is quite old and it has 2 x GIGABIT LAN Ports which can be switched on 1 for upload and 1 for download.

New motherboards now also have like 4 x Gigabit lan ports and even up to 6 from what iv'e seen.

This is only if you build the pc yourself ofc, dell won't use motherboards with lan ports up to like 4 or 6 unless its server.

[Recursion]

Gigabit lan is easy to reach for wired, wireless no way not yet, N is still 'DRAFT' and not final yet so its still in development.

I mean my motherboard on my pc is quite old and it has 2 x GIGABIT LAN Ports which can be switched on 1 for upload and 1 for download.

New motherboards now also have like 4 x Gigabit lan ports and even up to 6 from what iv'e seen.

This is only if you build the pc yourself ofc, dell won't use motherboards with lan ports up to like 4 or 6 unless its server.

Apart from server mobos I haven't seen any consumer motherboards with more than 2 LAN ports... :S

[N!ck]

Apart from server mobos I haven't seen any consumer motherboards with more than 2 LAN ports... :S

I've seen one with 4 LAN ports.