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Originally Posted by weesteev
50Mb is here, 100Mb is on the way, 200Mb is starting trial.... whats not to be excited about! Some people prefer to have the fastest speed available and will pay for that privilege as well, I for one cant wait for these faster speeds to be rolled out, its certainly more progress than any other ISP.
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It's only bandwidth, not worth getting too excited about especially when 200Mbps is 2 years away from release, probably be out around Olympics time, and 400, no idea. Most people just want it to pull moviez, warez and stuff down at higher speeds which will get them a slap in the not too distant future anyways.
BT have trialled 1Gbps, means nothing until I can go to a website or make a call and place an order.
I'm hoping for a service that doesn't fall over for a week at a time, my primary reason for ditching Virgin right now, Telewest cowboys neglecting various areas on their network while waiting to be acquired and Virgin forcing 50Mbps out of networks without making the investment to ensure they can cope with them.
Couldn't care less about the downstream upgrades they are cheap and easy. The good bit for me and many others will be upstream as it'll force Virgin to, reluctantly, upgrade the networks appropriately.
So I'm more excited about 50/5 which thanks to Telewest's bodgery in the past and VM's bean counters won't be here in this affluent South-West London suburb until at the earliest April - June 2011 - just in time to be beaten by BT making 40/15 available in March.
EDIT: Just as a note 200Mbps was being trialled last year in Ashford, 100Mbps and up was trialled 4 years ago, 50Mbps upstream has also been trialled. Trials mean nothing for the products, things like the 10:1 rollout we're seeing happen now mean something.