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Originally Posted by General Maximus

I will

Couldn't help yourself, could you!

All right, I'll bite!

Originally Posted by General Maximus

I pretty sure it was 2007 or maybe even 2006.

I did a quick google, here's a Digital Spy article from December 2008 about the launch. So I was barely right about it being 2008, as it was more like 2009!

Originally Posted by General Maximus

I remember being one of the very first customers on it and at launch it was completely stm free which was unheard of back then. It was an incentive to get people to upgrade and move over to docsis 3 because the old network was on it's last legs and they were dying to give it some relief. They quickly changed their tune after a few months and new subscribers were hit with stm. I got away with it for about a year I think and then they forced it on me as well.

The STM-free(-for-all) of the 50mbit service was definitely glorious at the time. I remember STM came in slowly, first it was the "P2P networks only get slowed down, but all the time" thing which came about in 2010, then later on the "regular" STM for pure usage, regardless of use. I can't remember exactly when this happened, but I think it was around 2012.

Here's an article talking about updated policies that definitely show 50/100 getting STM, but I'm not sure if this was the first incarnation of it.

If that is the first time, then we had a good 4+ years with no STM on 50Mbit+.

Originally Posted by General Maximus

I remember being on 50mbits with my ambit 300 for a long time, managed to keep in 2008 ish for 100mbits and then when 120 came out in 2010 I was forced onto a shub. Luckily by then modem mode was available.

100Mbit definitely didn't launch before 2010 - I remember working for Virgin at the time it was being trailed (100Mbit customers had a special phone line, meaning I didn't have to deal with them ). BBC article from October 2010 on the launch: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11627507

You also didn't get 120Mbit until 2012 at the earliest: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16491614

Seems you're getting old, my friend, your memory is fading. Have you left the oven on?

I still love you, max

Originally Posted by General Maximus

I was under the impression they have been working on this for the last year or so and all the necessary hardware is in place on the network and now it is just a case of sorting out the cpe.

Yeah, it seems a lot of work has been done in the background! But trials still seem very limited and it's not like Virgin do to do a big-bang switch on across the whole network, especially for major upgrades. We still haven't even got IPv6!