Bournemouth to get fibre broadband

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7387836.stm

"Virgin Media is speeding up its cable network and over the course of this
year the whole of of its network will be upgraded to 50Mbps."
(The double "of" is the usual BBC incompetence).

What is the point in VM upgrading to 50mbps if it has ridiculous caps on it?
There is NO point in having a superfast broadband connection you're not
allowed to use!

"Cork Soaker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7387836.stm
>
> "Virgin Media is speeding up its cable network and over the course of this
> year the whole of of its network will be upgraded to 50Mbps."
> (The double "of" is the usual BBC incompetence).
> What is the point in VM upgrading to 50mbps if it has ridiculous caps on
> it?
> There is NO point in having a superfast broadband connection you're not
> allowed to use!
>
They won't advertise that bit, it's down to us victims of Virgin to
advertise the truth

I had Virgin ADSL Max last year, never downloaded more than 3Gb a month.
Lived close to the exchange, got throttled from 6Mbps at night,
to maybe 200kbps at peak times.

Never again.

Steve Terry

In news:fvvub5$297$(E-Mail Removed),
Cork Soaker <(E-Mail Removed)> typed, for some strange,
unexplained reason:
: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7387836.stm
:
: "Virgin Media is speeding up its cable network and over the course of
: this year the whole of of its network will be upgraded to 50Mbps."
: (The double "of" is the usual BBC incompetence).
:
: What is the point in VM upgrading to 50mbps if it has ridiculous caps
: on it? There is NO point in having a superfast broadband connection
: you're not allowed to use!

You *are* allowed to use it, just not for very long..!

Ivor

"Steve Terry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Cork Soaker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:fvvub5$297$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7387836.stm
>>
>> "Virgin Media is speeding up its cable network and over the course of
>> this
>> year the whole of of its network will be upgraded to 50Mbps."
>> (The double "of" is the usual BBC incompetence).
>> What is the point in VM upgrading to 50mbps if it has ridiculous caps on
>> it?
>> There is NO point in having a superfast broadband connection you're not
>> allowed to use!
>>
> They won't advertise that bit, it's down to us victims of Virgin to
> advertise the truth
>
> I had Virgin ADSL Max last year, never downloaded more than 3Gb a month.
> Lived close to the exchange, got throttled from 6Mbps at night,
> to maybe 200kbps at peak times.
>
> Never again.
>
> Steve Terry
>

You get what you pay for and the Virgin brand is not cheap.
Like most branded products you get less as some of your cash never gets to
the supplier but goes straight to the brand owner. Brand owners don't
generally make products BTW, they just buy the same Chinese cr@p and stick
their badges on and call the original stuff fakes along with all the true
fakes that appear later.

Ivor Jones wrote:

> Cork Soaker <(E-Mail Removed)> typed, for some strange,
> unexplained reason:
> : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7387836.stm
> :
> : "Virgin Media is speeding up its cable network and over the course of
> : this year the whole of of its network will be upgraded to 50Mbps."
> : (The double "of" is the usual BBC incompetence).
> :
> : What is the point in VM upgrading to 50mbps if it has ridiculous caps
> : on it? There is NO point in having a superfast broadband connection
> : you're not allowed to use!
>
> You *are* allowed to use it, just not for very long..!

A couple of minutes @ full blast should get you capped.

Graham

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7387836.stm
>
> "Virgin Media is speeding up its cable network and over the course of this
> year the whole of of its network will be upgraded to 50Mbps."
> (The double "of" is the usual BBC incompetence).
>
> What is the point in VM upgrading to 50mbps if it has ridiculous caps on
> it?
> There is NO point in having a superfast broadband connection you're not
> allowed to use!


A thread about shit broadband, and nobody has mentioned TISP yet.
http://www.google.com/tisp/

--
Graham

%Profound_observation%

: > You *are* allowed to use it, just not for very long..!
:
: A couple of minutes @ full blast should get you capped.

That VOD screwed. HD VOD is a ridiculous dream to you poor VM subscribers.
:-)

"Cork Soaker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:fvvub5$297$(E-Mail Removed)...
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7387836.stm
>
> "Virgin Media is speeding up its cable network and over the course of
> this
> year the whole of of its network will be upgraded to 50Mbps."
> (The double "of" is the usual BBC incompetence).
>
> What is the point in VM upgrading to 50mbps if it has ridiculous caps
> on it?
> There is NO point in having a superfast broadband connection you're
> not
> allowed to use!
>
>



No, you can have a feed as fast as you like but you will never see it
because of the appalling contention ratios in this country.

Joe Public 'understands' speed so they push that, but they never do
anything about contention. Having used a 1Mb uncontended feed I can tell
you is one hell of a sight faster than a 10Mb at usual UK contention of
50:1.


--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

Woody wrote:

> "Cork Soaker" wrote
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7387836.stm
> >
> > "Virgin Media is speeding up its cable network and over the course of
> > this year the whole of of its network will be upgraded to 50Mbps."
> > (The double "of" is the usual BBC incompetence).
> >
> > What is the point in VM upgrading to 50mbps if it has ridiculous caps
> > on it?
> > There is NO point in having a superfast broadband connection you're
> > not allowed to use!
>
>
> No, you can have a feed as fast as you like but you will never see it
> because of the appalling contention ratios in this country.

BT's Max DSL doesn't have a fixed contention ratio. It's dynamic or
somesuch. They claim that this means in practice that one shouldn't see
significant contention issues ever arise.


> Joe Public 'understands' speed so they push that, but they never do
> anything about contention. Having used a 1Mb uncontended feed I can tell
> you is one hell of a sight faster than a 10Mb at usual UK contention of
> 50:1.

But you can also get a 20:1 contention ration (or better) if you shop around
and there's a 'max premium' that gives your traffic priority whilst it's
still passing through BT's equipment. Most perform,ance problems with max
are down to the cheapskate ISPs overselling their product and under
investing in capacity. Move to a decent ISP such as Idnet (who actually
*over* provision capacity) and you don't have these problems at all.

Graham

: BT's Max DSL doesn't have a fixed contention ratio. It's dynamic or
: somesuch. They claim that this means in practice that one shouldn't see
: significant contention issues ever arise.
:

I get 80% full speed at worst. :-)
No idea what the contention ratio is supposed to be, but I live in an area
where they don't know what a computer is, so that might help.