THE NEWLY RE-BRANDED cable operator Virgin Media, previously known as NTL:Telewest, has officially announced plans to double the maximum speed of UK cable-based internet services.
Virgin Media will introduce a new 20Mbit cable internet offering, up from the previous 10Mbit product, in June. The company has already undertaken successful user beta trials of the 20Mbit service.The company has also announced plans to increase the product range to include a incredibly fast 50Mbit service. 'As an end-to-end network owner, cable has inbuilt advantages in the quality of broadband service that we offer,' the company said in a financial results statement this week.
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Virgin Media will introduce a new 20Mbit cable internet offering, up from the previous 10Mbit product, in June. The company has already undertaken successful user beta trials of the 20Mbit service.The company has also announced plans to increase the product range to include a incredibly fast 50Mbit service. 'As an end-to-end network owner, cable has inbuilt advantages in the quality of broadband service that we offer,' the company said in a financial results statement this week.
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I hope they dont forget about us 4mbit users too!
they lost a profit of 60m a year and 3 million customers and tbh i think sky made a **** poor move lol sod em virgin central and virgin central 2 are far better ,, since i can choose what i watch and when i watch it , plus virign will most likely get the shows direct from the tv stations and not sky so sky lost out
Unless they can offer me the same service, then 20mbit service seems o.k.
I have bskyb, bt and aol, if I combine them all to Virgin in July I will save about £15 per month, might be worth ago.
Last edited by kraized on 01 Mar 2007 - 13:25
I'm already more than happy with my 10Mbit, but a free upgrade to 20Mbit is going to be fantastic.
Now NTL is owned by Virgin.
Anyone know?
Now NTL is owned by Virgin.
Anyone know?
Yes, the trial at the time showed the network would not be able to handle it but in December last year NTL CEO (now VM) hinted at 100Mb for Xmas 2007. I doubt it though.
Now NTL is owned by Virgin.
Anyone know?
Yes, the trial at the time showed the network would not be able to handle it but in December last year NTL CEO (now VM) hinted at 100Mb for Xmas 2007. I doubt it though.
Hey thanks for info, stops me from being envious now ha ha.
512K = 64,000B/s
384K = 48,000B/s
I've never been able to go over 48,000 neither has anyone else I know on 10Mb Blueyonder.
Not quite 768kbps as they claim. When I first sign up for it, that is the one thing that I want but instead it's 384kbps, NOT 768kbps. I may have to call and clarify this matter. Yeah 384kbps=48kBps. If I got 768kbps, that is 96kBps, it would be so awesome.
On average i get around 300 - 900 kB/s on my exBlueyonder 10mbit.
Not quite 768kbps as they claim. When I first sign up for it, that is the one thing that I want but instead it's 384kbps, NOT 768kbps. I may have to call and clarify this matter. Yeah 384kbps=48kBps. If I got 768kbps, that is 96kBps, it would be so awesome.
I get 768Kbit down, but I am in a Adelphia conversion area, we seem to of goten treated better... and I can pull 96KB/ps up perfectly fine
Usenet and a few lesser used FTP servers (with multi connection support) are the only items that ever give me my 10mbit and this isnt a utilisation issue in my area :/. I fear there will be a large incrase in complaints along the lines of "wheres my 20mbit.!!!?!?" which seems to happen as it stands for 10mbit. A good percentage of cases i've seen so far are source servers not being able to give 10mbit out yet the users can not understand this and continue to whine alot :/.
Meh it'll be nice to have, when using say usenet or ftp but tbh i see it being a pain for virgin media. Theres also the issue of capacity upgrades to support it. I'd imagine it'll take atleast a year for areas already with borderline capacity to get uggraded. It takes alot of time and planning on VM's part to do capacity upgrades so i hope this doesnt cause more issues in this respect too.
Shall be interesting to see what happens
Nay, I'm an old Blueyonder customer who's used to a full-throttle 24/7 connection. I'm not looking forward to having my bandwidth usage limited.
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Nay, I'm an old Blueyonder customer who's used to a full-throttle 24/7 connection. I'm not looking forward to having my bandwidth usage limited.
Hear hear. No point in faster speeds if they throttle it to less than what you should have been getting originally
bring me my 20mb connection, mr branson
You mean Sir Richard Branson.
Last edited by Larney on 01 Mar 2007 - 15:21
never had any slowdowns on blueyonder ! i hope they do something like.... 20mb, 10mb, 5mb. makes more sense
You have misunderstood, please re-read.
Wherever it is, I think I'll move there.
We pay about $40 for DSL. Incredibly better than dialup, but not necessarily good compared to cable
branson has *NOTHING* to do with virgin media, its still that ****ty ntl that run it. I have the top package on ntl (virgin media) and this must be a publicity stunt, i get 4Mb TOPS, when i am supposed to get 10Mb. They are complete idiotic morons that lie there way through saying you get all this stuff when you dont, thank god sky dumped ntl, they are an appauling company and trading standards should have destroyed them years ago
branson has *NOTHING* to do with virgin media, its still that ****ty ntl that run it. I have the top package on ntl (virgin media) and this must be a publicity stunt, i get 4Mb TOPS, when i am supposed to get 10Mb. They are complete idiotic morons that lie there way through saying you get all this stuff when you dont, thank god sky dumped ntl, they are an appauling company and trading standards should have destroyed them years ago
I'm on 10Mb as well, and am lucky if I get 2Mb. They don't seem to know what the problem is as it has been like this for a few months now.
So nothing wrong with the 10mb service here in an ex London Cable area
for me a cool deal right now would be 20mbps down 5mbps up with good quality internet tv and voip as standard =P
Wish we got cable in this area, your offered so much more. My brother is on Telewest and he was telling me how he gets sky sports and stuff free now when I was down his at the weekend.
NTL/Virgin cable is by no means nationwide. Infact it's only available to something like half the population.
BT's network is truly nationwide offering up to 8mbit (448kbps upstream) on nearly all phone exchanges. Again 8mbit is only available to those living closest to the exchange (something like 20%) and then the speeds decrease as the distance increases. They're also trialling some fibre optic technologies and an ADSL2+ (24mbit) product slated for next year.
I used to live less than 5Km from my exchange but was only getting about 7mbs down and 1.1mbs up on a 24mbs connection
So with any dsl service your milage will vary with cable it is normally a lot more consistant and less affected by distance
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