Still irritates me that I went from 2 years of 2.1Mbps usable upstream delivered over 1.5km of copper wires to 768kbps on Virgin's 'fibre optic' broadband going to 1.75Mbit on their 'next generation fibre optic' broadband.
I remember a poster from here who was a VM employee saying how it would not release with 1.5Mbit and there would be bonding trials now. He wasn't entirely wrong there, but...
I am getting some encouraging noises from VM which I'll relay more on as I get it.