* Posts by Mike

1 publicly visible post • joined 15 Dec 2008

Virgin Media opens bandwidth choke for 50Mb launch

Mike

Heh...

I'll be surprised if it delivers at peak times, but that said, BT/Sky think my 1.6mb service is adequate because there's no exchanges nearby.

The UK average is 3.6mb apparently, well, I think this is down to 50%+ getting very fast connections and the rest getting sub 512k speeds.

Everyone where I live is surprised I can get 1.6mb, they're hovering around 1mb.

Speaking of Virgin though, Cable doesn't exist where I am and virgin aren't cabling any new areas either, so this sucks.

It's going to equate to a split between those who 'can get' fast broadband and those that can't...