07-03-2007, 07:13
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#121
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Re: 20 Meg From June
Is there any proof if it is comiing out on 1st may.
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07-03-2007, 11:12
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#122
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Re: 20 Meg From June
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Originally Posted by TECHMAN2000
Is there any proof if it is comiing out on 1st may.
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Well its definately a rumour if that helps. 
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07-03-2007, 13:07
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#123
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Re: 20 Meg From June
Thought the press release says IN JUNE... :S.
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07-03-2007, 16:12
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#124
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Inactive
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Grimsby
Age: 53
Services: 10MB Broadband
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Re: 20 Meg From June
I think the Downstream speed needs to be left alone and the Upstream speed needs some drastic attention..... 
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07-03-2007, 21:30
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#125
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Inactive
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Leicester
Age: 40
Services: VM(Ex-NTL):
20Mbit/Ambit250,
TV & Phone
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Re: 20 Meg From June
Lets be honest, the only people who will see the main benefits of the doubled download speed are the Usenet folks, as without a download manager and multiple connections, your average web file server struggles to meet the speeds (Well, most of the ones I end up using in any case) and as for torrents, to get that kind of speed you'd be using well over half of your upload bandwidth just to support the overheads, leaving too little for actual data uploads, meaning speeds would drop due to not sharing. All this being said, I still want it, because its bigger, and bigger as we know, is always better...
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07-03-2007, 23:54
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#126
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Re: 20 Meg From June
Theres many reasons for 20Mb and some servers such as Virgin's own and the UK Fileplanet servers for instance can cope with 20Mb easy. Just depends on what it is you want and where you get it from really but I am with you, I wont turn down +10Mbit on my download  .
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08-03-2007, 00:02
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#127
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Location: Teesside
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Re: 20 Meg From June
Any decent (private) bittorrent site can easily fill a 20Mb pipe, along with usenet and a lot of the bigger sites out there like the BBC, Google, Youtube, Microsoft....
As far as gaming is concerned, if you're getting crappy pings or packetloss with 10Mb then you will with 20 since most online games shouldn't be swamping 512k of upstream. It all balls down to routing and Virgin's tends to be worse than BT's especially across the Atlantic since I suspect they use cheaper (read congested) providers.
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15-03-2007, 10:17
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#128
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 2
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20Mbit/s coming in May
Hi all. A press release from Virgin Media has just been released announcing that 20Mbit/s broadband (768kbit/s upload) will be available from May. The price will be lifted from £35 to £37 per month.
Full release is here http://pressoffice.virginmedia.com/p...156&highlight=
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15-03-2007, 10:20
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#129
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Re: 20Mbit/s coming in May
Ooooh......
Will the upgrade (and price rise) be applied to all exisiting 10Mb customers automatically, or will we get a choice?
Rob
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15-03-2007, 10:21
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#130
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Poole, Dorset
Age: 40
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Re: 20Mbit/s coming in May
£2 extra to double your speed!? Poor you!
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15-03-2007, 10:25
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#131
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Inactive
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 272
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Re: 20Mbit/s coming in May
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Originally Posted by Zeph
£2 extra to double your speed!? Poor you!
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Not complaining about the extra £2  just wondering if I'll need to contact them in order to get it....
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15-03-2007, 10:27
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#132
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Location: Poole, Dorset
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Re: 20Mbit/s coming in May
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Originally Posted by lucevans
Not complaining about the extra £2 just wondering if I'll need to contact them in order to get it.... |
Fair enough, I'm sure some people will however! It's only 10 less fags for the month 
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15-03-2007, 10:29
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#133
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argh
Join Date: Feb 2005
Age: 47
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Re: 20Mbit/s coming in May
Zeph, that is if those fags are still £2 per 10 knowing the gov by the time that NTL gives us 20meg we will be paying £3 for a pack of 10 :P
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15-03-2007, 11:24
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#134
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Inactive
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: London, HA0
Age: 38
Posts: 1,031
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Re: 20Mbit/s coming in May
nothing about what us 2mb people will get?
I doubt they will have:
£18- 2mb
£25- 4mb
£35- 10mb
£37- 20mb
£50- 50mb??? [pure spec!]
that would be ridiculous!
Surely it should be [atleast]:
£18- 4mb
£25- 10mb
£37- 20mb
£50- 50mb
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15-03-2007, 11:25
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#135
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Permanently Banned
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Nr Carnforth
Age: 50
Services: M6 Keele
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Re: 20Mbit/s coming in May
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Originally Posted by lucevans
Will the upgrade (and price rise) be applied to all exisiting 10Mb customers automatically, or will we get a choice?
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It reads that they are putting up the price of 10meg by £2 and as a sweetener they are double the download and increasing the upload.
Thats one hell of a sweetner.
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