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Virgin Media continues 100Mbit broadband rollout

by Hugo Jobling on 10 June 2011, 15:49

Tags: Virgin (NASDAQ:VMED)

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Faster than a speeding bullet

Virgin Media has expanded the reach of its fastest 100Mbit broadband offering, which is now available to over four million homes.

The roll-out is part of an on-going Virgin Media drive to improve the coverage and speed of its network, with over 13 million homes planned to be reached by its 100Mbit service by mid- 2012. At £45 a month without a Virgin Media phone line, or £35 with one, it's certainly not a cheap option, but those in need of such fast download (and upload) speeds have little alternative, except expensive business fibre optic broadband.

Virgin Media's Executive Director of broadband, Jon James, had this to say: "As data consumption rises and consumers grow increasingly reliant on their broadband service, only Virgin Media's unique network is primed to cater for the UK's impending data explosion. With four million homes now able to ‘get in the fast lane' with our 100Mb service, the UK is racing up the broadband league tables and we're delighted to be playing the leading role in boosting the UK's digital infrastructure."

Virgin Media isn't stopping at 100Mbit; the company also has a 200Mbit trial in place and in East London is testing out 1.5Gbit fibre - we can only hope the rest of the Internet is ready for such high-speed connections when they become widespread.



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Downside is that you'd have to have one of these “SuperHub's” - which I've found to be the least reliable bit of network hardware I've ever seen. And judging by the vitriol being hurled on the VM forums, I'm not alone in being less than impressed. :wallbash:
crossy
Downside is that you'd have to have one of these “SuperHub's” - which I've found to be the least reliable bit of network hardware I've ever seen. And judging by the vitriol being hurled on the VM forums, I'm not alone in being less than impressed. :wallbash:

it could be worse, from personal experience VM's ‘Super’ Hub is vastly to superior to the pile of garbage that is BT's HomeHub
what is the upload on this?
Jay
what is the upload on this?

10Mb irc
if your in one of the upgrade areas its now 10:1 ratio, e.g. 10mb download/1mb upload and here it will be 100mb download/ 10mb upload… im still waiting for this upgrade :(, july is when plymouth/newton abbot is meant to be upgraded lol.