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Originally Posted by ccarmock
Any news is this bandwidth increase will be extended to Virginmedia business customers?
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It isn't a bandwidth increase it's a speed increase. VM marketing will be pleased that you have confused the two though. Whether or not you get any speed increase will depend on whether or not VM think giving you one would offer them a competetive advantage.
In fact I suspect the speed increases will coincide with the upgrades to 8 channel downstreams for a 200Mbps rollout and a move to a more draconian traffic management policy.
It isn't clear to me whether or not an 8 channel node will serve the same number of modems as a current 4 channel node or if two 4 channel nodes will be somehow combined and there will be less nodes overall. If moving to 8 channels leads to a doubling in bandwidth as well as supporting higher headline speeds it will be very welcome and might even mean that I'd have some chance of actually seeing the increased speed (although as will no doubt be mentioned I'd need to get my Superhub reactivated and as will also be mentioned put up with the increased latency and jitter that will cause). Perhaps I'll be lucky and Infinity will arrive first so I won't need to choose.