Trials of upto 10mbit upload?

Trials of up to 10mbit upload....
Virgin Media - We hear you

Think much will come of this in a sensible amount of time?

been told here that by september my connection will have the option to be upgraded
from the 50Mb down to 100Mb down

and my 1.6Mb upload will have the option to increase to 10Mb up..

the 100Mb will be getting rolled out with 5Mb upload with the option to increase it to 10Mb


wait and see what happens in reality...but it is happening thats for sure

There's no timeframe for 100mb rollout as yet. I hear plans are afoot to implement some new upstream capability into the network before any speed increases beyond the current packages are made available to the masses.

The word over on cableforum is that they will be rolling out upstream speeds at 10% of download nationwide so this isn't just for the top end packages. Some people in the Lincoln area (for one) are already getting these upstream speeds. No timescales though.

I presume they felt that they had to do so with BT rolling out Infinity which has higher upstreams than current cable.

Nothing like a bit of healthy competition to get someones butt into gear!!

This process has already started and is being done on a port by port basis. Lincoln and Leeds posters have noted an upgrade, there are others.

Not privvy to the timescales I'm afraid, beyond that I'm getting nothing until next financial year

Edited by deleted (Wed 23-Jun-10 08:04:46)

Your knowledge of the workings of cable seems to be huge. Do you or did you work for one of the cable companies? Feel free to ignore if you'd prefer.

In reply to a post by kwikbreaks:

Your knowledge of the workings of cable seems to be huge. Do you or did you work for one of the cable companies? Feel free to ignore if you'd prefer.

Yep I used to work for ntl in the networks division dealing with core IP, CMTS and cable network issues.

EDIT: Wouldn't call my knowledge 'huge' only a beginner to be honest. Real experts are scary people

Edited by deleted (Wed 23-Jun-10 09:45:57)

In reply to a post by djfunkdup:

been told here that by september my connection will have the option to be upgraded
from the 50Mb down to 100Mb down

and my 1.6Mb upload will have the option to increase to 10Mb up..

the 100Mb will be getting rolled out with 5Mb upload with the option to increase it to 10Mb

I would take that with a huge pinch of salt, especially if it came from a local engineer.

From what I can gather the plan is to get all tiers onto 10:1, IE 10/1, 20/2, 50/5 and 100/10 as speeds, and the launch schedule for 100Mbit hasn't been finalised yet.

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

EDIT: Wouldn't call my knowledge 'huge' only a beginner to be honest. Real experts are scary people

Everything is relative. I can't say I've dug all that hard but a cursory hunt around to find out how cable networks actually work doesn't produce much info above the trivial. That makes most of your posts on the various technicalities rank as expert level as most folks seem to know absolutely jack. With ADSL there is a lot more easily found info (imo).