Yeah the bandwidth is there but any improvements they make won't be anything amazing, just getting customer on 50, 100 and 152 up to speed and then a bit more to keep everybody's connection running strong and stable, we won't see anything like 50mb and time soon or even next 5 years say.

Openreach will definitely beat them to that.... Though Virgin could surprise us.... We hope!

And I don't mean to moan about VM all the time as i do like there broadband but it isn't built for the future.... But I won't say FTTC is either as it hasn't been around long enough to prove itself yet.... Though it's giving itself a good name at the moment...

Maybe if virgin fibre all it's street cabs they will come out on top laughing....maybe...

Yh 3am is normally my work time too lol.

In reply to a post by mlmclaren:

They are but under a docsis systems there won't be much point from my point of view as it will always be shared.... And as uploading becomes more popular by the day the bandwidth applied will just be used up as it's increased so we won't see much improvement at our end.

Just less congestion maybe....

Hmm.

Standard DOCSIS 3.

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

Hmm.

Standard DOCSIS 3.

if it can do 500/50 surely VM can do it.

500mb down that's great but 50mb up, that's not very good compared to 500mb

Now 200mb with 50mb sounds decent

Obviously symmetrical would be better and that's the target, faster downloads are greats but what's the point really 200mb for residential connections is the most any household would ever need.

Also swedes network is probably a lot better the the UK's, but that isn't really virgins fault though they could do more.

I also assume that com hem are using docsis 3.1 or at least more downstream channels as virgin as virgin only have 8 channels active and that's only around 400mb down.

In reply to a post by mlmclaren:

500mb down that's great but 50mb up, that's not very good compared to 500mb

It's the fairly standard 10:1 ratio, though obviously the 250Mb/50Mb pack is better for those not interested in the extra downstream speed.

In reply to a post by mlmclaren:

Also swedes network is probably a lot better the the UK's, but that isn't really virgins fault though they could do more.

Clarify please?

In reply to a post by mlmclaren:

I also assume that com hem are using docsis 3.1 or at least more downstream channels as virgin as virgin only have 8 channels active and that's only around 400mb down.

There is no DOCSIS 3.1 equipment running on production ISP networks. It says next to the product the CPE used, one of these.

Are you more productive with faster downloads? Even with four users in a household, surely 100mbps would be more than enough?

Edited by broadband66 (Thu 03-Apr-14 11:43:20)