Virgin Promises 100Mbps Connections To UK Homes

registerShift writes "Virgin said it will roll out 100 megabit-per-second broadband connections to homes in the UK. The company said users will experience speeds 'very close' to what's advertised as it plans to deploy cable instead of ADSL used by competitors. 'There is nothing we can't do with our fiber optic cable network, and the upcoming launch of our flagship 100mbps service will give our customers the ultimate broadband experience,' Virgin Media's chief executive officer, Neil Berkett, said. This is just days after the FCC announced aims of 100Mbps by 2020, and companies panned it as unrealistic."

Comments

Re:Unrealistic?

[matjeh]

I must be one of the few, too. I'm on the 50mbit service, and getting 50.1Mbit/s and 8ms ping according to speedtest.net. My 20Mbit service before was faultless, and also my 4Mbit service when I lived 90 miles from here (with NTL, before rebranded Virgin), and also my 2Mbit from my flat before that, and also my original 600kbit service in 2000 - and everyone I know on Virgin (and NTL before) has a similar story. (no I don't work for Virgin, just a happy customer)

Re:Virgin sucks

[Anonymous Coward]

on their 24Mbit plan, I would get no higher than about 200Kbytes per second, whereas on Sky I get around 800Kbytes a second on their 16Mbit plan.

You're talking about ADSL: Virgin offer ADSL in non-cable areas. Of COURSE you don't get the advertised speeds: ADSL is notorious for that. Those of us who live in Virgin Cable areas get much faster connections at the advertised speed: I'm paying for 20Mb and I'm getting 20Mb (& I checked the modem before I wrote that).

Basically your complaint is "ADSL is shit. I wish I had cable."

Re:Try getting my 20Mbit to run at speed first!

[Bad Ad]

you dont get traffic shaping on the 50mb package, only 10 and 20.

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html