Virgin's 50Mb broadband arriving December 15?

[Zhadnost]

They may not have been referring to network capacitance, they may have been talking about things like quality of cable in the ground.

[greeninferno]

Is it safe to assume that areas which have already had analogue switched off will be first ?

Or is it further dependant on which previous franchise the area is part of ?

Or both ?

Originally Posted by on in an hour!

it is coming on the 15th your right stephen,i do know where but am not at liberty to say (sorry). but as to the national roll-out it will be a structured roll-out almost franchise to franchise as oppose to headend by headend.e.g. Bolton has its date yet 2 other franchises off the same headend are still at the t.b.a. stage.
its not just a question of 'tweeking' a ubr or installing new gear at source and away you go!.there are many areas where if 50meg was launched now it simply wouldnt work due to the noise on those areas,as a consequence the network guys are working on the local cabinets in areas with a launch date to remove the noise,and this would have to then be made a rolling maintenance job to ensure the noise levels are kept at an acceptable level.

well I am glad I aint a mod anymore in that case as wait till monday and there will be thousands of posts say why cant I get it yet. Good luck mods lol

[on in an hour!]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

well I am glad I aint a mod anymore in that case as wait till monday and there will be thousands of posts say why cant I get it yet. Good luck mods lol

stop trying to wind em up zing,people only need to read my post,or mods can quote it (its official,ive seen roll-out schedule) if i didnt know better id say you were after a bit of banter!!

[Zhadnost]

Now why on earth did you want to admit that you'd seen the rollout schedule.

Queue floods of, 'do you know when it's coming to ....'. (In PM if nowhere else.)

[General Maximus]

I am going to be good and not ask. I am just happy knowing that there is a list, at least it shows progress

[Fatec]

Originally Posted by Zhadnost

Now why on earth did you want to admit that you'd seen the rollout schedule.

Queue floods of, 'do you know when it's coming to ....'. (In PM if nowhere else.)

Considering 50Mbit is only ready to launch on the 15th at Warrington, London and Dudley before the real nationwide roll out starts in March 2009 i doubt it really matters if he has seen the rollout sheets, cuz everyone is still gonna have to wait

[General Maximus]

poo, I am going to spend all weekend crying now, I was starting to get excited. I wouldnt call that a launch, I would call that an extended trial. I wonder how long it is going to take them to update http://www.virginmedia.com/customers...-broadband.php

[anduin]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

poo, I am going to spend all weekend crying now, I was starting to get excited. I wouldnt call that a launch, I would call that an extended trial. I wonder how long it is going to take them to update http://www.virginmedia.com/customers...-broadband.php

Thats what the press conference is for, they are announcing that they intend on updating their customer portal to say that 50mb is coming soon

[Fatec]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

poo, I am going to spend all weekend crying now, I was starting to get excited. I wouldnt call that a launch, I would call that an extended trial. I wonder how long it is going to take them to update http://www.virginmedia.com/customers...-broadband.php

Suprised you want it so much.

Poor upload speed, multitasking will still be kind of impossible, get a few t hings going and it'll slow to a crawl due to poor upload speeds.

STM coming with heavy limits.

High price.

Cant wait to go back home, UK net depresses me

[General Maximus]

tbh I was more than happy with 10mbit at the time and although i have no probs reaching 20mbit and I appreciate the faster download speed, I wanted 20mbit for the increased upload speed. I like to maintain a high seed ratio with my torrents and it is very hard to do when you can download so much so quickly and then it takes forever to upload it again. As with 20mbit, I want 50mbit for the increased upload speed, it is going to half the amount of time it takes for me to upload stuff. Any increase I see in download speeds will be a plus.

[Fatec]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

tbh I was more than happy with 10mbit at the time and although i have no probs reaching 20mbit and I appreciate the faster download speed, I wanted 20mbit for the increased upload speed. I like to maintain a high seed ratio with my torrents and it is very hard to do when you can download so much so quickly and then it takes forever to upload it again. As with 20mbit, I want 50mbit for the increased upload speed, it is going to half the amount of time it takes for me to upload stuff. Any increase I see in download speeds will be a plus.

The modem used in the trials has drop out issues with torrents

Originally Posted by on in an hour!

stop trying to wind em up zing,people only need to read my post,or mods can quote it (its official,ive seen roll-out schedule) if i didnt know better id say you were after a bit of banter!!

No mate ive seen it before and actually I got banned from this forum for being a git when they introduced 3 meg. We will get hordes of posts of people who do not want to wait but have you just you wait and see. You seeing the roll out schedule and not dishing info is teasing

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by on in an hour!

it is coming on the 15th your right stephen,i do know where but am not at liberty to say (sorry). but as to the national roll-out it will be a structured roll-out almost franchise to franchise as oppose to headend by headend.e.g. Bolton has its date yet 2 other franchises off the same headend are still at the t.b.a. stage.
its not just a question of 'tweeking' a ubr or installing new gear at source and away you go!.there are many areas where if 50meg was launched now it simply wouldnt work due to the noise on those areas,as a consequence the network guys are working on the local cabinets in areas with a launch date to remove the noise,and this would have to then be made a rolling maintenance job to ensure the noise levels are kept at an acceptable level.

I am one of the staff members I was referncing, lol. Although I don't know the rollout plans.

[broadbandking]

Originally Posted by Fatec

Suprised you want it so much.

Poor upload speed, multitasking will still be kind of impossible, get a few t hings going and it'll slow to a crawl due to poor upload speeds.

STM coming with heavy limits.

High price.

Cant wait to go back home, UK net depresses me

Fatec your normally right but I have seen someone who is on the trial Host a game on COD 5 Torrent with the upload going at 92Kb/s or more and someone surf the web all at the ame time with no problems, so your wrong on that part