News - Virgin Media announces roll-out of 100Mbps broadband

[HEXUS]

The superfast internet access will go on sale from December.

Read more.

[keasla]

i have put my name down for getting it

[Carlh]

Also pre registered for the service as the 50MB I have currently has been rock solid

[keasla]

Also pre registered for the service as the 50MB I have currently has been rock solid

i dont get 50Mb i get about 52Mb and i have seen it go to 58Mb i am not to botherd about the 100Mb down i am more interested in the 10Mb upload although i would like it higher

[miniyazz]

i dont get 50Mb i get about 52Mb and i have seen it go to 58Mb i am not to botherd about the 100Mb down i am more interested in the 10Mb upload although i would like it higher

Oh noes, you must be gutted

Wish I got 10mbps down speed, lol.

[Astridax93]

I would love to get this, but in times of recession and at that price... ouch!

[keasla]

i pay £35 for 50Mb now so i should get a free upgrade

[Funkstar]

I would be interested, but Virgin haven't increased their coverage in any meaningful way since they rebranded from ntl:Telewest. And have no plans to do so.

[malice19]

I have also registered for interest for there 100Mbps line. thought it would be ages before the UK would start seeing this kind of speeds : )
What are VM like with regards to using torrents? Do they throttle the connection?

[Nollauno]

11.6 Mb p/s here I come!!!

[Ross1]

I have also registered for interest for there 100Mbps line. thought it would be ages before the UK would start seeing this kind of speeds : )
What are VM like with regards to using torrents? Do they throttle the connection?

Virgin are due to start throttling torrents soon, there were a few articles about it not too long ago. To counteract that they were meant to be increasing upload speed for other things by 5x.

[spoon_]

Microsoft servers cannot cope with 50Mbps down so we won't benefit from 100Mbps

[malice19]

Virgin are due to start throttling torrents soon, there were a few articles about it not too long ago. To counteract that they were meant to be increasing upload speed for other things by 5x.

Oh rite, is that just during peak times or all the time? Also do you have the articles by any chance?
Cheers

[Ross1]

Oh rite, is that just during peak times or all the time? Also do you have the articles by any chance?
Cheers

http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/tra...anagement.html

At peak times we also slow down the speed of file sharing traffic – that's services like Limewire, Gnutella, BitTorrent and Newsgroup (Usenet) traffic. You will, of course, still be able to use these services, but downloads and uploads will take longer during these peak periods.

http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/dis...ad-speeds.html

[Apex]

Also pre registered for the service as the 50MB I have currently has been rock solid

Same, 10MB and it's been fine for me.