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Virgin Media launch 50Mbps broadband today [Updated]

Postby paliometoxo » Sat Feb 07, 2009 4:23 pm

i wish i was in ENGLAND :O

Virgin Media has unveiled its highly anticipated 50Mbps broadband service today. It is currently the fastest domestic connection available to UK web surfers. Today (December 15th), Virgin Media held a press conference announcing the news of its release. It will be priced at either £35 per month if you take a phone line (£11 per month, total cost = £46 per month). Or £51 if it is taken as a single product. 50Mbps will have unlimited downloads and there will be no traffic management, though it will remain to be seen if this is a permanent decision. There has been no official word on the upload speeds but these have been rumoured to be 1.75Mbit and will increase to 2.5Mbit in 2009.
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Postby paliometoxo » Sat Feb 07, 2009 4:26 pm

cytanet announced 4mbit for home users while in england virgin media has

10 20 and 50 mbit connections 10 being the lowest virgin media offer for less then cytanet charge for 4:S

im so moving to england
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Postby insan » Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:42 pm

paliometoxo wrote:cytanet announced 4mbit for home users while in england virgin media has

10 20 and 50 mbit connections 10 being the lowest virgin media offer for less then cytanet charge for 4:S

im so moving to england


Why do u care much abt the internet speeds? warez stuff? :wink:
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Postby paliometoxo » Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:49 pm

exactly warez stuff :D movies tv episodes and sometimes applications... but not only that but watching youtube alot or downloading iphone firmwares helps with faster net. game demos and updates also playing ps3, doing al at the same time needs lots of b/w

also you can pay and download movies from itunes and you get full download speed downloading the movie withing a few minutes, where as now itt akes an hour or so on my 2mbit..
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Postby insan » Sat Feb 07, 2009 7:03 pm

paliometoxo wrote:exactly warez stuff :D movies tv episodes and sometimes applications... but not only that but watching youtube alot or downloading iphone firmwares helps with faster net. game demos and updates also playing ps3, doing al at the same time needs lots of b/w

also you can pay and download movies from itunes and you get full download speed downloading the movie withing a few minutes, where as now itt akes an hour or so on my 2mbit..


Hehehe. Then ofc u need the max speed to max ur internet joy. :wink:
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Postby paliometoxo » Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:45 pm

insan wrote:
paliometoxo wrote:exactly warez stuff :D movies tv episodes and sometimes applications... but not only that but watching youtube alot or downloading iphone firmwares helps with faster net. game demos and updates also playing ps3, doing al at the same time needs lots of b/w

also you can pay and download movies from itunes and you get full download speed downloading the movie withing a few minutes, where as now itt akes an hour or so on my 2mbit..


Hehehe. Then ofc u need the max speed to max ur internet joy. :wink:


hell yes...
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Postby bill cobbett » Sat Feb 07, 2009 9:02 pm

paliometoxo wrote:cytanet announced 4mbit for home users while in england virgin media has

10 20 and 50 mbit connections 10 being the lowest virgin media offer for less then cytanet charge for 4:S

im so moving to england


Don't be fooled by these headline speeds. For many of us here in GB who don't have these cable providers, the fastest we can expect through traditional copper wires is no more than 3 MB, dependant on distance from the phone exchange. I was speaking to our internet provider last night and the chap told me that as we live 4.7 kms from the exchange our typical speed of 1.7 MB is the most we can expect through copper.
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Postby paliometoxo » Sat Feb 07, 2009 9:52 pm

living in a village i cant get cable but we have full 2mbit not sure if i will recieve 4 if i try upgrade with cytanet..
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Postby yialousa1971 » Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:38 am

50 meg is the speed to their network not to the Internet. Your be lucky to max out a 10 meg connection, most servers can't handle it unless your downloading from microsoft.
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Postby yialousa1971 » Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:49 am

bill cobbett wrote:
paliometoxo wrote:cytanet announced 4mbit for home users while in england virgin media has

10 20 and 50 mbit connections 10 being the lowest virgin media offer for less then cytanet charge for 4:S

im so moving to england


Don't be fooled by these headline speeds. For many of us here in GB who don't have these cable providers, the fastest we can expect through traditional copper wires is no more than 3 MB, dependant on distance from the phone exchange. I was speaking to our internet provider last night and the chap told me that as we live 4.7 kms from the exchange our typical speed of 1.7 MB is the most we can expect through copper.

If you live next to the telephone exchange you could get 24meg, there's your answer move next door to the exchange. :lol:
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