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Old 16-01-2014, 14:36   #74
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Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb

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Originally Posted by Kushan View Post
Even copper, shielded copper like what VM has, can hit speeds above 1Gbps though I'd doubt Virgin's do.
The biggest difference comes down to the fact each street cab is fed by multiple fibres on Openreach FTTC, each street cab is fed by less than one fibre on Virgin Media FTTN.

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Originally Posted by AbyssUnderground View Post
No of course not. I thought it was 1Gbps but someone in this topic said it's now 10Gbps. That's still a lot more than VM use.
I've not done a spectral analysis of VM's copper to see how much of the spectrum they actually use - but even the copper coax can carry up to 5-6Gbps under good conditions.
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