[Pushkar]

Originally Posted by UnReaL

Approx. 6.25MB/s, though it could go to 6.40MB/s.

1024 * 50 / 8

If I'm correct?

Yes its 6.4mb/s since it's 5300000bps or something like that :P

Originally Posted by UnReaL

Interesting, it seems that although everyone has to pay the standard £30 call-out and £50 activation charge, many people seem to be getting different prices, can anyone explain why this is happening? (unless they have XL TV, XL Phone and XL Broadband already, though I'm just guessing).

It's not people are leaving Virgin Media, they are upgrading, meaning they know it will be a new 12 month contract, which in essence should mean they are made to pay the usual extortionate prices.

If they had been with Virgin Media for 12 months and decided to go with, lets say BT, who magically rolled out 100Mb (use your imagination), saying that they were offering faster speeds for less and that they had done a line test and told you that you could potentially be getting speeds of *up to* 60Mb download, then yes I'm sure they would be giving discounts to keep you as a customer, rather then jump to a rival ISP.

But this is a new service and I'm not convinced that many of the VM Sales staff have any idea what they are doing / talking about.

Shocking is all I have to say about that.

Well im paying only £1 more after the £80 installation and activation - thats because I was on the L package and now im on the M package for TV, I was getting something like 11 quid discount, so thats why the price varies a bit.

About the '100mbps' from BT, I read theoretically it can be 60mb max, and also it would take training, especially since most of the staff are in India, but then again BT will start the roll out in 2012 and it's only available for 40 percent, by which time VM will have probably introduced 100mbps or higher!