Virgin to launch 100Mbit product in 2010 - Page 5

tvtimes · 27-02-2010, 15:01

What's the worry about the new modem anyway? It would be free wouldn't it? Orf would they charge you for the install?

Peter_ · 27-02-2010, 15:06

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Originally Posted by tvtimes

What's the worry about the new modem anyway? It would be free wouldn't it? Orf would they charge you for the install?

Not quite sure which post you are replying to but I would say anyone not on 50Mb would still have to pay for installation and activation if they chose either 50Mb or 100Mb.

lawe · 27-02-2010, 18:34

VM should be thanked for pushing the BB speed higher and getting it out to the people who are lucky enough to be in a cable area.
I agree that the upload speeds do need to be increased as cloud computing is the next big thing and what with people uploading photo's, videos and not forgetting the gaming side, we all do not want to wait hours saving our memories or suffering lag when playing online.
At the moment I'm enjoying the 50mb I have but as my sons get older and become gamers, then 100mb will be a god send!

Lord Nikon · 28-02-2010, 02:59

They just want to be able to compete with this

Ignitionnet · 28-02-2010, 08:26

They probably have this 100/15 package from BT more in mind along with 60 down 10 up fibre to cabinet.

VM have never cared about staying ahead of what anyone else apart from BT offers you know that

newbie1001 · 28-02-2010, 14:08

Is it not going to be the case though that other users will end up having to subsidise the high end 50MB/100MB users. This is afterall a niche market with the majority of the population never needing at most 10MB. Whatever Virgin may think people are still going to migrate between Virgin/Bt to take adavantage of offers even if the Virgin service is faster due to other considerations.

I recently dropped from 20MB Cable to 4MB ADSL and it has not affected my lifestyle in anyway. I am still downlaoding the same and getting the same performance (Actually my pings have improved slightly with ADSL). lets face it the only reason most are on the 10MB service is that they got a free upgrade.

I can't wait for the 1st person to brag about having 100MB in my pub so i can respond why would i want to pay Â£30+ a month extra for a service i do not need. When does it become no longer finacially viable to stay ahead of the competition.

zantarous · 28-02-2010, 14:29

You have to look away form one home one connection, most homes you will find more then one PC, with the kids having a loptop or desktop, other mobile devices such as phones, iPod touches. Freeview HD and Freesat HD will soon be rolling out VOD via BB, downloading/streaming HD movies. Heck even TVs are now coming with ethernet ports. It is not how fast you can download but how many devices are downloading at once, even on a 20 MB connection a Xbox live game can be laggy if someone is doing anything other then basic surfing on another machine.

Ignitionnet · 28-02-2010, 14:42

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Originally Posted by zantarous

It is not how fast you can download but how many devices are downloading at once, even on a 20 MB connection a Xbox live game can be laggy if someone is doing anything other then basic surfing on another machine.

Yep, because the upstream is getting munched so the game no longer has upstream bandwidth on demand.

zantarous · 28-02-2010, 14:44

Oh yes! Shame VM haven't said anything about upload speed. Is there even a rollout time table or will it be like the 50MB and to fit it into this year it will get rolled out to one town in December?

Ignitionnet · 28-02-2010, 14:54

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Originally Posted by zantarous

Oh yes! Shame VM haven't said anything about upload speed. Is there even a rollout time table or will it be like the 50MB and to fit it into this year it will get rolled out to one town in December?

Good question indeed and no idea, still 'trials' in a couple of areas only.

No upstream announced for the 100M, unsurprisingly. We know how much Virgin generally like to pretend that that annoying upstream direction doesn't exist.

zantarous · 28-02-2010, 15:01

Would people be happy if VM gave 10MB upload on the 100MB service.

Ignitionnet · 28-02-2010, 15:19

I have always said I consider 10:1 to be a reasonable ratio.

Horizon · 28-02-2010, 18:34

Very pleasing announcement by VM, finally this country is starting to catch up with others who already have super fast speeds.

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Originally Posted by *sloman*

roll it out now!

I dont want to wait until Dec 2010!

Be a longer wait than that for most. Berkett made clear in his webcast that it will be launched at the end of the year and will be slowly rolled out throughout 2011.

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Originally Posted by Pierre

Exactly the 20mb and 50mb products use different technologies.

50mb is on the Docsis3 platform, which I believe can ramp up to 200mb.

Can go even faster than that. Try 16*50 and that's just with with today's tech, post analogue switch off of course.