Virgin Media tests 8Gbps broadband
 

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It will be interesting to see where it leads.

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It'll lead to "nobody needs that speed" and "they should fix my broadband first" posts. These threads always do. :)

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/showthread.php?t=26087
(etc)

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From the cabinet to your house :D

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speeds needed for the holodeck I see

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Well who does need 8Gbps ?

What I do like about those trials is the upload being as fast as the download.

I'd be more than happy with 1Gbps if that were the case.

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More immediately Vodaphone gigafast are offering up to 900 Mbps down/900 Mbps up FTTP if you're lucky enough to be in one of the few areas currently cabled up (Milton Keynes, Peterborough and Aberdeen). Coming soon to Coventry, Edinburgh, Huddersfield and Sterling then Leeds, Southend and Cambridge are starting work this spring.

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Not much use to me though :(

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Nobody needs that speed 24/7, but when doing something like downloading a game having that speed means you can be playing 2 minutes after buying it, rather than an hour or more.

FTTP though, so not something most VM customers will get a taste of.

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Might need IEEE 802.11ax, Wi-Fi 6, for those speeds eh?

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Which is the kit VM are using apparently:

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...idgeshire.html

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Should work well with the Samsung Galaxy S10 series. :)

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Not now, but you will one day.

LOL I'd be happy with 20Mb

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And I thought Sky testing 1gb broadband in York was impressive!

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It's hard to see why your average homeowner would ever need 8Gbps, but it's hard to see the future.. 20 years ago, if you'd have told me I would be needing 350Meg at home, I'd have said you were kidding.

350Meg might seem excessive still, but I have 3 adults, and 2 kids in the house. All of whom make some use of the internet. Who knows what use I'd get out of 8Gbps?

I can see the advantage for the ISP a little more easily. A trial like this generates a *lot* of publicity, and it makes people think that they are a forward-thinking company, and all it costs them is a small amount of upgraded hardware, and a large link to the backhaul.

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Im hoping Virgin will Roll out a 500mb\30mb speed this year.

Im doing some online work with a friend that involves downloading files of 1GB+ at times so 500mb would be great for me.

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As bandwidth has increased, we've always found ways of utilising it.

4K streams are still heavily compressed compared to their Blu-ray counterparts, but as 4K content grows a lot more people will consume it. 8K is next and even 16k will be not far behind - we'll start seeing that in the next 10 years or less. A 16k stream will consume well over 1gbit of bandwidth itself.

Of course, I'm not suggesting that 16k will be why we need 8gbit connections but it's just one example of a growing need for more bandwidth. Beyond sheer resolution, audio quality and video quality (likes of HDR) require yet more bandwidth. Technology marches on.

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I'd like to see more flexible packages, IE maybe a 30Mbps upload with a 200/300 download, rather than having to go for the 500 down package just to get 30/35mbps upload.

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I'd love 8gbps, And can think of many ways of using it !

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It's the same when new roads are built to ease conjestion, they simply attract more cars and the new roads become conjested too!

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I find downloads off PS Network to be pathetic in my experience , they don't even max my FTTC connection out I've also heard many friends say the same.

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Most of the comments on the 'connection' were along those lines, but the questions were always tone deaf ones which indicated virgin had no plans to offer flexibility and just want to ram tiers down peoples throats for eternity.

Probably why the connection was shut down fairly quickly, it was obvious virgin weren't hearing what they wanted to hear.

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All true.. 20 years ago, you were lucky if your internet connection could handle a 320*240 Real Player video. Now we have resolutions that are over ten times that.