Virgin Media's campaign: stopthebroadbandcon.org

[Ignitionnet]

Seems perfectly reasonable a disclaimer to me, most PCs won't have a problem but crappy laptops with dire hard drives and anything with a 100Mbit network card or a network link at 100Mbit rather than a Gbit will not be able to hit 100Mbit.

They are hardly going to have a deal like that with no disclaimer at all as a large proportion of performance issues on most broadband networks are actually related to customer equipment.

We may be technically literate and able to confirm that our equipment is working as it should be and we have no spyware, everything at 1Gbit/Full, etc, most aren't.

[Turkey Machine]

Cable is marketed as able to deliver the advertised speed, yet Virgin can and do get away with the "up to" clause that is mandatory with ADSL, which is wrong quite frankly. Their "national" product using BT's network is contended and traffic managed beyond usability and only able to deliver "up to 24Mbit", although in reality you'll hit 23Mbit with overheads.

100Mbit? I fully expect people to bitch and moan about it when using with gear on 100Mbit-limited ethernet cards as you'll only get 95Mbit or so. Minimum equipment should be enforced, and I think oversubscription is a given with the uptake. It will be interesting to see them deliver 10Mbit on the upstream, but this is not anywhere near the 4:1 down/up ratio that BT FTTC can deliver.