[ubuntu-uk] I'm not a Virgin customer

[Rob Beard]

On 03/02/12 20:20, Michael Daniels wrote:
> As stated, you will only get the advertised higher speeds with a Virgin
> Optical Fibre connection.
> When virgin cabled our nearest town, 3 miles away, they did not cut in
> to our village of 6000.
> BT will provide broadband to a cabinet, less than a 1/4 mile away so
> when it happens, we should
> do better than the 2.5 megs that we have already.
> Optical fibre should be laid into every address, but the too political,
> "who pays" policy remains
> unresolved.
> Currently, Virgin seen to offer the best available speeds, as long as
> you have their optical fibre
> installed at your address.
> For me, it remains a waiting game.
>
>

Well from what I understand later on this year folks who have fibre to 
the cabinet from BT will be able to get up to 80Mbit downloads and 
20Mbit uploads, and even more interesting is that it seems that BT will 
possibly be offering the option to opt for a full fibre connection, 
although the article I read on ThinkBroadband.com suggests that it could 
possibly be quite expensive to start with...

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/5016-fttp-on-demand-for-those-who-want-it.html

A friend of mine is really gutted, he has Virgin near where he lives, 
there is a Virgin connection 2 doors up from where he lives but as his 
house was built after Virgin installed their cabling they won't cable up 
his house.

In Devon Eurobell (prior to Telewest taking them over) cabled up Exeter, 
Newton Abbot, Torquay, Paignton and Plymouth but left out Teignmouth, 
Dawlish, Starcross and some of the other towns in the area.  I never did 
understand why, but it looks like Teignmouth at least is getting fibre 
to the cabinet in the next year.

As it happens I believe BT have a 110Mbit fibre service available which 
is just slightly quicker than Virgin, presumably that's why Virgin are 
upgrading to 120Mbit.

Rob