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cook1984 · 14-04-2009, 23:11

Virgin run fibre to the cabinet. That fibre has pretty high capacity, I would assume at least in the gigabit range since it would have to support a lot of 50 meg and 20 meg users.

With LLU another company could run fibre from the cab to the home/office instead of the old copper wires Virgin use. It would blow Virgin's copper network away by offering not only 100 meg downloads, up 100 meg uploads as well.

It's hard to describe how fantastic a symmetric 100/100 connection is. It's a bit like the difference between trying to get a Morris Minor to do 70 on the motorway while praying that bits don't start to fall off and effortlessly cruising along in the quiet comfort of a luxury Toyota or BMW. You don't have to worry about STM, how long things take to download or upload, if running iPlayer or another P2P app is going to kill your Skype conversation or if your flatmate sending a big email attachment or uploading some photos is going to ruin your online game.

14-04-2009, 23:11	#418
cook1984 Inactive Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 556	Re: Legal action taken against Virgin Media throttling practices Virgin run fibre to the cabinet. That fibre has pretty high capacity, I would assume at least in the gigabit range since it would have to support a lot of 50 meg and 20 meg users. With LLU another company could run fibre from the cab to the home/office instead of the old copper wires Virgin use. It would blow Virgin's copper network away by offering not only 100 meg downloads, up 100 meg uploads as well. It's hard to describe how fantastic a symmetric 100/100 connection is. It's a bit like the difference between trying to get a Morris Minor to do 70 on the motorway while praying that bits don't start to fall off and effortlessly cruising along in the quiet comfort of a luxury Toyota or BMW. You don't have to worry about STM, how long things take to download or upload, if running iPlayer or another P2P app is going to kill your Skype conversation or if your flatmate sending a big email attachment or uploading some photos is going to ruin your online game.