[Sephiroth]

I can't think of any reason for sarcasm on my part. It's a pity you thought that. I see, however, that you're still there with the uncalled for barbs (the pedantic remark).

The aim of my question was curiosity as to whtehr or not in your case, it was FTTP. Because then, this community would be very interested in your keeping in touch, I would thik.

The "Virgin Media Fibre" thing is that I believe the ASA had words with about their claims as to Fibre Optic Broadband and the VM web site doesn't herald fibre optics as far as I can see. The VM HFC technology is moderately superior to Openreach's copper pair path to the cabinet. I say moderately, because FTTC hs fibre to each cabinet whereas VM aggregate coax to fibre at a local optical node. So HFC is better than FTTC in cases where the distance run of telephone copper to the FTTC causes adverse attenuation.

I don't have a firm date for FTTP oin my area although BT's web site says "orders being taken" but there's no online mechanism for placing the order. When I do go FTTP (as will others), there'll be keen interest to make comparisons with other FTTP offerings and with VM HFC.

So that's whwre I'm coming from. Innocent technical interest. My position on throttling has never changed; under present infrastructure, I want VM to throttle mega-downloaders so my humble access to the internet isn't destroyed.