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Virgin to deploy 100Mb broadband
INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER Virgin Media has announced plans to start rolling out 100Mb broadband to homes by the end of 2010.
The cable media operator has also been trialing 200Mb broadband for some time now and said that it will be extending that trial. Currently only available in Kent, Virgin 200Mb broadband will be rolled out to Coventry this year. However if you don't live in Coventry you will have to make do with 100Mb, once that arrives.
The deployment is far enough in the distance that Virgin was unable to give us any further details or pricing. However when asked about fair use policies, the spokesman was able to say that it would have similar traffic management policies as are currently present on its 50Mb service.
According to Virgin's website, that would suggest no limits on downloads at all. On the face of it, the policy avoids various peak time traffic management tactics that reduce line bandwidth once a certain transfer threshold has been breached.
So while 100Mb broadband might seem like a boon to downloaders, Virgin Media told us that it would not rule out implementing some sort of traffic management policy should its network require it. Its network might, however, catch a breather depending on the price of this service. With its 50Mb service costing 38 quid a month without bundled telly and phone, you're most likely looking at the thick end of £60 per month for 100Mb broadband. The upside is that you will get access to a rather handy newsgroup server which the spokesman said - and we verified ourselves - has seven day binary retention.
The problem for Virgin Media is that if everyone uses its fibre-optic network to the best of their ability, without traffic management it will end up providing poor quality of service levels. With the pressure of seemingly being caught by competitors, the probability of Virgin's network buckling under its own marketing success means that traffic management could rear its head at some point. So the question becomes, will it stay at 100Mb once you start to use it? µ
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I'd rather just stick with my 10mb but get a gauranteed service.
I play a lot of FPS games so low ping and 0% packet loss is what I desire.
Peak time I still get trouble streaming BigUpRadio @ 192Kbps so I doubt a 100mb is going to be any better.
It's lovely that Virgin spend so much time on headline-grabbing 50/100/200 download speeds, but 'peak time traffic management' doesn't even begin to describe the woeful performance real-world Virgin customers are seeing.
On our tinpot internet radio, DJs from Virgin are still having difficulty connecting to the server to get even a paltry 128kbits/s upload. Five years ago when we started, we thought UK ISPs would get better and fix the problems. But for many users, especially on Virgin, this simply hasn't happened.
The real problem lies with actually getting it. Even if you live in a cabled area and have the cable running to your house. I asked for the 50mb service back in August and after a couple of e-mails telling me I had nothing to worry about it all went quiet. Phone calls, e-mails and letters all to no avail. If the customer service is this bad when someone is trying to give them money what on Earth is it like when there is a problem?
Virgin's network is shoddy in places to say the least. I'm currently paying for 20mb broadband and and probably going to downgrade to 10mb, simply because the average throughput for a day seems to be around 6mbps.
Quite frankly I'd like a refund for the last several months of service. Even had engineers round and they just mumble about "poor signal", but nothing changes. Anyone else on 20MB struggle to watch so much as a few youtube videos in the middle of the day?
Let me get this straight. You are paying for unlimited broadband connection with max speed of 100MB... BUT... if you actually use the connection to download something beyond certain point... they will limit your connection?
You poor poor people, move to Sweden, unlimited broadband here is actually unlimited no one blocks ports or chokes BT traffic and no one investigates exactly why your 1TB connection is actually being used to download loads and loads of things.
Although handy, 7 days retention is a bit crap really. I pay something like a tenner a month to Astranews for something like a year's retention!
I'm on the 20MBit product at the moment and generally always get 20Mbit speeds (apart from the traffic management kicks in but it's rare for me to trigger the limits). I was tempted to go for 50 Meg but I just couldn't warrant the extra at the moment. What I would like Virgin to do is increase the upload speeds, why not make the upload speeds at least 10% of the download speeds (so 1Mbit up for 10MBit down, 2Mbit up for 20Mbit down, 5Mbit up for 50Mbit down). Still good to know Virgin aren't sitting on their laurels like BT seem to be (rolling out FTTC to Virgin areas, why not roll out FTTC to some of the areas were the poor folks struggle to get 1 Meg!)
From Post:
Feb. 25) -- Kellogg's frozen waffle fans are going to have to "Leggo those Eggos" a little while longer than expected.
The nation's No. 1 brand of frozen waffles, Kellogg Co.'s Eggos, is going to remain in short supply because of delays in upgrading the largest of the company's Eggo-making facilities. Problems at the plant in Rossville, Tenn., are forcing the leading frozen waffle maker to put off full production until late this year.
Meanwhile, the breakfast staple is being rationed out to retailers based on past sales.
Allan Halprin, AOL
Half of all Eggo waffles are made at a plant in Rossville, Tenn., that is being upgraded.Eggomaniacs who can't get their fill will have to try other brands, consider frozen pancakes or French toast, buy a waffle iron or just change their breakfast menu altogether until Eggos are back in full supply.
Nearly three out of four frozen waffles consumed, 73 percent, are Eggo waffles -- at least until last fall.
Battle Creek, Mich.-based Kellogg had originally planned to resume full production of frozen waffles early this year, but at Rossville, where half of all Eggos are produced, production has been curtailed due to "extensive equipment enhancements and repairs"
So Supply NOT AlWays Easy. Blaming SNAP won't Help, Obviously Crackle was Put down Leaving Pop to Blame.
How to USE Supply Is Aother Prime Directorate.Family Should learn to 1.)BUY or Rent 4 or More Lan Router with Cable or Phone Modem. Hook Bunch of Circuit city $325 iA64 -=7=- New Dsktop machines Up, even then 25 mb/s IS TOO much. Could make 8 Node Head. hummmm, Hipsters. NOw What About Me Wafflers en hosteliers....Cleaning UP Act Cost More than Entire Show, In Telso,Eggo & DeskTOP.Expecting Supply Soon.
vondrashek
unlike storage... I don't tend to expand my usage to fill the potential max, maybe it's all these year of traffic management on adsl and cable but I doubt it'll be true @100mbit too.
I look forward to 100mbit, it means the better half can watch C4OD/youtube/bbc OD without destroying my gaming experience... also faster downloads ;) I play a lot of MMOs and steam games and I don't like to wait for my new releases!!!