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Innovation is a lot like love, everyone knows when it happens, but nobody really knows what it is - Dean 'Mr Segway' Kamen
Virgin media rolls out 200 Mbps internet
VIRGIN BURSTS its cherry by launching a pilot scheme for its largest ever internet pipe of 200Mbps, trumping its previous measly effort of just 50Mbps, which now falls short.
Virgin has gone all the way, by partnering up with Cisco for this venture of delivering the next generation of broadband to the home in which they’re trying to market under ‘wideband’ instead of just broadband.
This could very well be the first and the fastest implementation of the DOCSIS3 standard of cable internet access in the world, with countries such as the US of A and Japan only reaching 101Mbps and 160Mbps respectively.
Now reaching four times that of its current broadest band, the service is still being firmly aimed at consumers rather than businesses. One of Virgin's former incarnations under the moniker Telewest had a business internet arm which has almost sadly fallen by the wayside, much like a girl’s most precious treasure on prom night.
Perhaps this venture could very well see that side of the company move on to bigger and better things, by offering a more useful, powerful broadband service than one aimed just at kids for getting the Pirate Bay founders in to even more trouble.
Trials started last week in a glorious Kent countryside hamlet known as Ashford, with 100 muggles trialling out the service, presumably gratis.
No word yet on the upstream pipe, but if we were to guess the speed based on the current service where there’s a 1.5Mbps upstream perhaps 6Mbps doesn’t seem too much of a reach.
Who would have thought the fastest way ever to download pr0n would be through a Virgin? µ
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...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.
hehehe...
Who would have thought the fastest way ever to download pr0n would be through a Virgin?
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)
You have my vote for the funniest comment ever posted EVER!!! Well played! rotflmfao!!!
Telewest was like a ruptured hymen?
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!!!
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!
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.
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. :)
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!
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.