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Offline J a M e S

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Virgin Media Upgrade To 20MB!! by Summer 2007!
« on: March 19, 2007, 06:48:08 pm »
YES!!  some kind of anouncement.. or some website claiming there will be an upgrade soon?

source: http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/04/virgin-media-upgrading-broadband-speeds-to-20mb-in-the-uk/

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By the summer all existing 10Mb Virgin Media broadband users will be upgraded to 20Mb for no extra charge. The service will remain unlimited, although according to TechDigest some customers won’t receive the full 20Mbs but everyone will receive at least 16Mbs. I think it’s safe to say that any users within the old Telewest franchise will get 20Mbs as the old Telewest network was superior to the old ntl network. No details were given of any (much needed) increases in upstream speeds, or what the current 2Mb and 4Mb tiers will be increased to.

To be honest I think I hit the point of diminishing returns with my Broadband connection when I hit 10Mb, and even as a heavy user I don’t need 20Mb. I’ll probably change my mind when I get it, but I don’t think it’s going to change my usage profile.

What I think it will do though is allow Cable to reclaim its speed crown in the UK. I think that many consumers are starting to wise up to the fact that ‘Up To 8Mbps’ from ADSL could be as low as 2Mbps depending on where you live. We’ll have to see if Virgin Media’s new 20Mbps speeds will convince ADSL users to migrate over to cable, but it’ll definitely give Richard Branson and his team something else to shout about.

I cant wait for this!!

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Re: Virgin Media Upgrade To 20MB!! by Summer 2007!
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2007, 09:19:44 pm »
Well blooming heck!

20Mb.. Now that's gunna be fast, lol.

Yes i was on NTL but now i see i'm on Virgin Media. I also here that Virgin Media are gunna be coming out in April sometime to change stuff on your PC from NTL to Virgin Media.


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Re: Virgin Media Upgrade To 20MB!! by Summer 2007!
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2007, 09:42:34 pm »
im only intrested in upload. lol
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Re: Virgin Media Upgrade To 20MB!! by Summer 2007!
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2007, 10:31:54 pm »
all it will do is get you throttled twice as fast  under there fair use policy lol

there has been rumer some isp are going to have 40 & even 60 mb but dont get to excited half the phone lines here wont be able to handle it (or so they will tell us )
      

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Re: Virgin Media Upgrade To 20MB!! by Summer 2007!
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2007, 12:19:40 am »
Under all the hype this is something very important in the p2p world.

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No details were given of any (much needed) increases in upstream speeds

I wonder why...

This announcemnt was scheduled pre virgin renaming and so its not really a suprise to those watching their activities but I,m sure many will be happy even if they find out that what they think they are getting is less useful than it looks.

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Re: Virgin Media Upgrade To 20MB!! by Summer 2007!
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2007, 01:59:34 am »
the reason they have not done it already is because they are still rolling out the traffic shaping equipment to all areas, to deal with the abusive users who think they are actually paying for that much bandwidth so use it like a dedicated connection

they are still rolling out and testing the traffic shaping equipment, which the handful of users on 10Mbit forced them to get by "testing the connection" 24 hours a day 7 days a week... i certainly hope that when they bring in the 20Mbit service they do go with their planned throttling policy and cap them to 1 or 2 Mbit during peak time so they can't fuck up the other users connections as much - although i suggest they have 2 policies for normal users being capped at say 2Mbit during peak time, and abusive users being capped to 256k during peak time, which is plenty fast enough for anything they can realistically want to do except heavy downloading, which any fair person would do during off peak time to avoid causing problems for other users

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Re: Virgin Media Upgrade To 20MB!! by Summer 2007!
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2007, 03:39:21 pm »
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Re: Virgin Media Upgrade To 20MB!! by Summer 2007!
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2007, 04:07:53 pm »
nah... they cant throttle to much...  im not really a heavy user... a 2-4mb connection with deacent upload would suit me great 
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Re: Virgin Media Upgrade To 20MB!! by Summer 2007!
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2007, 02:02:38 pm »
official: NTL and BY customers (now known as virgin media)    are upgradeing to 20mb, no upload speed speciified tho i imagine it be around 700k    onli downside is proce goes up by £2 making it £37... till good tho
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