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Kushan · 16-09-2015, 23:33

There will be a point in the future where 100Mbit is considered "slow" but I agree we are not there yet. Still, it's not such a terrible thing that the customer is ahead of the curve, it's usually the other way around.

I do wonder if we're going to hit a sort of peak whereby most people just don't need more. Maybe we've already hit that with 50 or 100Mbit, in the same way that hard drive capacities and RAM on computers have hit a point where most "average" users really don't need more. It seems cheap laptops have been coming with 500GB HDD's and 4GB of RAM for years now and there's just no demand for more, until you get to the people that either game or do other intensive work (developers, etc.). Even for those people, 100Mbit today is probably excessive.

It would be nice if the general population started focussing on the other aspects of a good connection, upload speeds, latency, jitter and buffer bloat. Then maybe Virgin would start focusing on those issues as well.

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Kushan cf.mega poster Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Warrington Posts: 4,737	Re: Virgin Media broadband customers to be hit with price hikes from November There will be a point in the future where 100Mbit is considered "slow" but I agree we are not there yet. Still, it's not such a terrible thing that the customer is ahead of the curve, it's usually the other way around. I do wonder if we're going to hit a sort of peak whereby most people just don't need more. Maybe we've already hit that with 50 or 100Mbit, in the same way that hard drive capacities and RAM on computers have hit a point where most "average" users really don't need more. It seems cheap laptops have been coming with 500GB HDD's and 4GB of RAM for years now and there's just no demand for more, until you get to the people that either game or do other intensive work (developers, etc.). Even for those people, 100Mbit today is probably excessive. It would be nice if the general population started focussing on the other aspects of a good connection, upload speeds, latency, jitter and buffer bloat. Then maybe Virgin would start focusing on those issues as well.