solp, did you ever find out about the above upgrades BTW?.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3...s-service.html
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Virgin Media to relax traffic management on 50Mbps service?
Thursday 20 March 2008 15:51:45 by Andrew Ferguson
The Xbox may have lost out in the high definition storage media battle, but its Xbox Live Marketplace to some extent negates this as people can download HD TV shows and movies direct to the Xbox via
Xbox Live Marketplace.
tech.co.uk has been talking to Virgin Media and Microsoft about HD movie downloads on the Xbox, and the estimate is that a HD movie will take just 15 minutes to download on the 50Mbps cable broadband service when it rolls-out.
This fits in nicely with a 50Mbps connection running flat out for the 15 minutes and the rough size of the HD content on Xbox Live Marketplace which is 5GB for the average film.
So how does this suggest Virgin Media are to change their traffic management rules, well the current ....
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