Great
Another excuse for those thieves at Virginmedia to hike their already extortionate prices.
It's become so common that it virtually defines current internet usage: fast download speeds and relatively slow uploads. That model in which we all consume other people's content but only occasionally put something back has been increasingly under pressure with the explosion of social media and video sharing websites, not to …
I just wish I was still in a VM area and not stuck with fucking shite ADSL :-(
It wouldn't do you any good.
We tried to get VM for an office move. Contacted them 8 weeks in advance of the move, knew there was cable into the unit.
Then nothing. Chased every couple of days, apparently one department always waiting on another.
We opened a VDSL order, suspecting that VM were not going to deliver. The day after we moved we got a call asking us to confirm whether we would like to place the order for VM. We confirmed that 6 weeks ago and you sat on your hands. They even sent us the same order confirmation they'd sent us 6 weeks previous.
Incompetent wastes of oxygen.
Given how much Vermin Media must be spending on their glossy spam brochures and suchlike that drop unsolicited through my letterbox at least once a week trying to entrap me into taking their services, I'm not surprised they're having to get stupid on the pricing.
So it's a self-defeating cycle of course as I'm never going to take them, and given they've ignored any attempt previously to get them to stop filling my recycle bin with their junkmail I've certainly got no inclination to fall for their spiel...
That puts rather limits the distance of the subscriber from the fiber node, since the higher frequency the greater the loss.
I'll bet we never see this from a major cable company sold to residential customers. It'll be sold exclusively to businesses because it is cheaper than running fiber all the way to their premises - but they'll still charge the very high prices they charge for gigabit or better symmetric service despite those savings!
Sounds great, no one would ever want to stop R+D developing new methods and increasing throughput. Line speed is great until there isn't the bandwidth somewhere to support it (bottleneck). What does this new speed support/provide access to that isn't already available? Is it internet delivered video or something else that provides an income to the network provider/maintainer?