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Originally Posted by BenMcr
It's already been said the FAQs over on the Community Forum that is untrue. There will be no 200Mbit for the Olympics
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Every rumour is "untrue" until stated otherwise. Virgin clearly has 200Mbit plans as they're trialling it in places, just like they have 1.5gbit plans. The only thing that really matters is when they'll be rolled out, which possibly Virgin themselves don't quite know yet. Basically, what I'm saying is that Virgin plans ahead, like any good company does and eventually 200mbit will hit. It might be the Olympics, it might not - it might have been a plan at one point and shelved, it might not have been, but it will happen eventually.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
do you think capacity will be added to handle this influx of users? given that most of VMs customers are on the bottom tier this will be a very significant demand added.
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I'm certainly not an expert, but it's my understanding that DOCSIS3 scales a hell of a lot better than DOCSIS1 or DOCSIS2 does, mostly thanks to the oft-mentioned "channel bonding". I believe in its simplest implementation, it's better to have customers share channels than to have the customers split into separate groups with a channel between them. Plus, you can always add more channels.