Thanks everyone for feedback and information regarding the future of virgin/liberty group, so in a pure unbiased point of few would you commit for the next 18 months to virgin 156/12 or an 80/20 service? Again 18 months, what I would say is I pay £48 for xl tv tivo plus v+hd box plus unlimited landline, it's an old friens family deal plus pay the line rental upfront for the year. Also just to mention happy with 12mb upload, any relaxing in the STM maybe before speed increases ha
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
The fibre carries what it needs to to support the node(s) it feeds so its capacity is irrelevant.
No, the bits either end of the coax and in between are. The coaxial amplifiers and the fibre nodes that convert signals between optical and electrical for fibre and coaxial mediums.
Nope - I linked up Comhem's 500Mb/50Mb deal. Just FYI there are no plans for 24Mb uploads on a future 300Mb service. DOCSIS 3.0 is capable of way higher than 500Mb downloads and 50Mb uploads.
Some 3.1-ready kit is going in now. The migration will start before 2020 with pilot deployments by VM's parent company this year but it's still a very new standard without that much support just yet. Be at least 2016 before any of it is seen in production and more likely 2017 or later as it's not on the radar right now nor is it needed yet.
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No, neither of them. If there were either of those I just wouldn't appear to discuss it. It was my poor attempt at humour.
Just FYI Magic I am happy to provide an educated guess that at least some of VM's network will be capable of 600Mb by 2016. Whether it's released or not depends on commercial stuff but there is certainly a pretty sizeable upgrade and rebuild budget to remove some of the restrictions I mentioned with the equipment either end of the coaxial network.
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