All virgin connections except the 50Mb service are subject to traffic shaping. ADSL will probably never be up to standard, unfortunately the only way to mitigate that is moving to an area that has cable. I'd like to move to eastern europe and get a 1Gb/s connection.

I don't understand why there clinging desperatly to a old technology, here in sweden I have 100Mbit optical connection, both ways, and no capping. Compared to the cable shit it is very nice.

Time to start developing!

I'm sitting on 100Mbps optical connection which as promise provider will be upgaded to 500Mbps. For 12Ls (about 17 EUR) per month. What provider - Lattelecom. Latvia. :)

Virgin Media - moving ahead but not finishing the job first. I don't think I'm alone in having problems getting the bandwidth promised. How about they get what they sell now working before doing the next thing. I've had an average less than 2Mbps since starting to pay for 10Mbps three months ago! Infrastructural issues are the cause according to their technical support team. With no fixed dates promised for correction.
BT sent me a cocky letter when I switch from them to virgin media, saying I'd regret it. Guess what, they were right.

Knowing Virgin Media and they're Caps...oops sorry "Fair Usage Policy" you'll be lucky to get 2 minutes of download before your downloads are reduced!

Download 200mps would be useful but if what Andrew says is right and I believe it is they screw you over before you can use it. Not to mention you'll need gigabit ethernet stuff in order to get it running at the speed if you didn't install that in the first place.

PLUS My biggest gripe with that Virgin crappola is the bloody upload which they seem fit to throttle to 56kbps! or 1 or 2 in some recent cases which doesn't help if you're a member of a torrent site seeding (non copyrighted files for once) and can't download other data if u haven't got the appropriate ratio - thankfully u can get boxes to watch yer cable which makes paying for your crappy useless internet worth it! I'm switching to BE pro asap for 2.5mbit upload goodness and no capping!!!

Telewest was like a ruptured hymen?

You have my vote for the funniest comment ever posted EVER!!! Well played! rotflmfao!!!

Can you use it for 1 hour a month then have it capped?

I ask, since Virgin have capped one of our clan menmbers speed to 80kbps, as he Downloaded 6GB in 1 week (his wife has now been banned from using bbc iplayer, untill he changes ISP).

According to Virgin, fair usage would be only watching 1, 30 min program on iplayer a day (and not using your connection for anything else), they sent him a load of other stuff he could do and not be left with a dialup connection, but most was so out of date (an average digital photo is 0.25mb is what thy claim, the must be using some crap cameras @virgin).

He is a virgin ADSL customer, so on the plus side, he can move anywhere (and is)

hehehe...

Who would have thought the fastest way ever to download pr0n would be through a Virgin?

...that you have to put up with Phorm in order to get it. If you're in a coverage area, of course. Which we're not.