Virgin Wants 200Mbit Broadband by 2012

heres an idea,offer a service uncapped,no we dont want a free laptop or 3 months half price nor free weekend calls,keep that,save the money charge us a bt extra so we get a constant line speed,and no we dont p2p but might want to catch up on eastenders from iplayer without haivng to wait till 1 am.

oh and sigreud dont post here again ok ty,this a a gadgety/geek site.i guess you still think more than 30mph is impossible?

It would be good if the 20MB service ran at that speed I have only ever got about 16 out of it as a max, most of the time it does about 10/12. Better than dial up though. Waiting to see what happens when the 50Meg starts working, but not sure if I will have to pay extra. Recently renegotiated my contract with them got £8.00 a month off the 20meg price I had been paying so now down to £29.00. Then rang them again a couple of weeks later to see if they could do a deal on the TV as well (we didn't take it up till now). Now have full phone, 20meg and full XL High Def TV with a V+ box for the sum of £49.00 a month which I consider to be a bargin. Goes up in 6 months by £8.00 but I will just give them another ring.

Do the Japanese know whether to pity us or laugh their head off? By that time, everyone that counts will have lapped us yet again. We should think of the UK as a Moore's Law exclusion zone.

As a soon to be ex-20mb Virgin customer here's a few things that have annoyed me over the past 12 months...

1. How can they advertise a 20mb service when I only see 18mb speeds tops, and in reality usually around 10mb. I appreciate that for ADSL ISPs the reasons for lower speeds are often out of their control. But with cable surely that argument doesn't hold so they're effectively taking money for a service they just aren't providing due to their over-capacity network.

2. 'Fibre optic broadband' my foot, the stuff running into peoples homes is plain old coax, not exactly the futuristic stuff that snazzy adverts are made of. ADSL is just as fibre optic... Back in the exchange.

3. I'd much rather see companies focusing on better upload speeds, whilst a relatively fast 20mb connection does make downloading anything quite a breeze the <1mb upload just gives you the feeling that you're back in 2001, I find myself saving larger uploads until I'm at work, even for just fairly straight forward tasks like uploading full size photos from a day out to flickr. Apple might have just upgraded my .mac storage to 20gb, but I'd hate to try and fill it using Virgins upload speeds.

Faster uploads are vital for all this 'cloud' stuff to be a success and useful, but I guess upload speeds aren't what sells broadband.