20Mbps News?

[Nikesh]

The Virgin Media 255 is supposedly capable of 40Mbps.

[rokka]

The thing is above 10Mbps you dont really notice much difference with general surfing. Even when downloading from some FTP sites. At work we have recently upgraded our connection from 10Mbps to 100Mbps fibre. We have now have pure 100Mbps of multi-homed internet transit up and down stream. The trouble is most servers cant push data quick enough. The BBC are quite good they dish it out up to 100Mbps but most dont..

Originally Posted by rokka

The thing is above 10Mbps you dont really notice much difference with general surfing. Even when downloading from some FTP sites. At work we have recently upgraded our connection from 10Mbps to 100Mbps fibre. We have now have pure 100Mbps of multi-homed internet transit up and down stream. The trouble is most servers cant push data quick enough. The BBC are quite good they dish it out up to 100Mbps but most dont..

Well..places i use can quite happily pump out 100mbit to me, and they do (and i make the most of it when being in france).

nothing like downloading dvd isos at that speed *cough* linux distros is what i mean, of course

[Rik]

Originally Posted by Zee

If you think ntl, Virgin Media (i need to get used to calling them that) are going to upgrade people to 50Mb for free, you've got another thing coming, perhaps 20Mb for free, but there is no way they would give 50Mb

No problem here.

I would quite happily pay double what im paying now (£34.99) for a nice 50MEG Connection

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Originally Posted by TraxData

nothing like downloading dvd isos at that speed *cough* linux distros is what i mean, of course

LOL!

[freakfunk]

i was on the phone this morning re: my virgin+ box not working properly and they asked me if i would be interested in upgrading to 20gig if it was available. i said depending on price

Originally Posted by freakfunk

i was on the phone this morning re: my virgin+ box not working properly and they asked me if i would be interested in upgrading to 20gig if it was available. i said depending on price

20gig, you mean 20meg

[etccarmageddon]

Originally Posted by rokka

The thing is above 10Mbps you dont really notice much difference with general surfing. ........

that's right most sites which you browse are only capable of delivering pages to you at 2meg.

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by rokka

The thing is above 10Mbps you dont really notice much difference with general surfing. Even when downloading from some FTP sites. At work we have recently upgraded our connection from 10Mbps to 100Mbps fibre. We have now have pure 100Mbps of multi-homed internet transit up and down stream. The trouble is most servers cant push data quick enough. The BBC are quite good they dish it out up to 100Mbps but most dont..

not only that if you browsing websites with a line that fast the limitiation isnt bandwidth its how fast the cpu can process the data. Browsing rarely bursts higher then about 256kbit for light sites and a couple of mbit for heavier sites. Its one of those pseudo upgrades for light users.

Originally Posted by freakfunk

i was on the phone this morning re: my virgin+ box not working properly and they asked me if i would be interested in upgrading to 20gig if it was available. i said depending on price

So there going to sell you a core route, very nice. I thinks prices would start a bit above 10 meg prices