When is 50mps broadband actually coming out?

Pixulated

I've been waiting months, when the hell is this actually coming out as I don't know anyone that actually has it.

I want the mother of all broadband.

Anyone here have it? Anything bad to say about it? What download speeds do you get?

Lincoln_Imp

If its with VM your talking about then i wouldnt get too excited
yes you will get up to 50meg but due to there policy on traffic shaping it just means you will hit your download limit a hell of a lot quicker :rolleyes:

Im on 10meg line and get the full amount on newsgroups but only for a certain time then it throttles back to 1meg

Think VM have a roll out plan somewhere ,what area you in ?

Turkey_Machine

Lincoln_Imp wrote: »

If its with VM your talking about then i wouldnt get too excited
yes you will get up to 50meg but due to there policy on traffic shaping it just means you will hit your download limit a hell of a lot quicker :rolleyes:

Im on 10meg line and get the full amount on newsgroups but only for a certain time then it throttles back to 1meg

Think VM have a roll out plan somewhere ,what area you in ?

WRONG! Sign up to Cable Forum (link's with Google) for more information, however *CURRENTLY* Virgin Media do not have a traffic management policy on their 50Mbit tier. This *could* change in the future, but while it's here and now, it's unlimied, save for the obligatory Fair Usage Policy. But others have milked the service for terabytes a month and not heard anything back from them!

Lincoln_Imp

Sorry i stand corrected but isnt their Fair Usage Policy sort of the same thing
if it isnt now you can sure bet it will be soon

iceburn

no FUP does not contol your speed depending on time / application being used. It care about the total amount being downloaded The other one does not care about amount being downloaded it care more about time / application being used to download the data.

Turkey_Machine

I should also point out that Virgin Media's daily traffic management is not application-based like BT's is. The day it moves to an application-based one, I'll be jumping ship!

Lincoln_Imp

iceburn wrote: »

no FUP does not contol your speed depending on time / application being used. It care about the total amount being downloaded The other one does not care about amount being downloaded it care more about time / application being used to download the data.

thanks for clearing that up :beer: