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Originally Posted by General Maximus
No way. 300mbits will be on docsis3.1 and they havent even started putting the infrastructure in place for that yet. The other thing to think about is the previous increases. In terms of % increase it wasnt a big jump going fron 100 to 120 and 120 to 152. They arent going to double the current top speed and go straight to 300mbits. To go with that they would also have to provide at least 20mbits upstream and they are still doing the work for that as well.
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It'll be on DOCSIS 3, and 3.1-ready infrastructure has been going in for a little while.
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https://www.comhem.se/bredband/bredbandspaket
Equipment Compal CH7284E
That is a 16 downstream, 4 upstream home gateway. Newer DOCSIS 3 kit is 24 downstream, 8 upstream capable. Your 152Mb is being delivered on 300Mb-400Mb of capacity, 24 downstreams delivers 1.2Gb. More than enough for 300Mb.
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
I wonder how the competition will react if that became the case...
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I doubt BT will react as far as FTTC goes at all. They have never had any interest in competing with Virgin on speed and aren't going to start.
The only things I expect to see from BT are a 100Mb/30Mb vectored FTTC product, which is on the roadmap anyway, and for the 250,00-ish largely taxpayer subsidised Openreach FTTP premises release of a 1Gb product.
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Originally Posted by Kushan
Another doubling,perhaps. Be interesting if Virgin's tiers became 100/200/300.
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This would be equivalent to their peers in the rest of the UPC / Liberty Global family's products for next year and is quite achievable with
relatively little investment.
Doubling the speed will increase usage by no more than 30-40%.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Just telling you what I was told, but it's a way off yet, as the extra capacity hasn't even been built into the Core yet. But that's what is coming.
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Indeed. It's why the E6ks are there.
EDIT: It's worth mentioning that another member of the UPC/LGI family, UPC Romania, sell only 200Mb and 500Mb, and provide a 24 channel gateway for the 500Mb. VM are a different proposition to the rest of the group, most similar to Ireland, but doubling the download speeds is happening and massive upload capacity increases are a work in progress.