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Broadband provider Virgin Media has launched an experimental program to deliver high-speed broadband to rural areas using telegraph poles to bypass the older copper wire network. Initial trials have started to provide the village of Woolhampton with 50 megabit connections using fibre-optic cables strung along specially constructed telegraph poles rather than under the ground. Virgin say that if the trial is successful and they can get planning permission for more poles then they could potentially roll the scheme out to a million more homes. New systems for getting high-speed broadband to rural areas are likely to be welcomed by the government who have promised to enable universal broadband access by 2012.
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this is my internet connection speed 10mb and im paying £45 for the whole large package and to show you people that im getting the right amount what im supost to be getting so if people are saying virgin media dont give you what they want they do its fibre optic ffs its the future of broadband.
Virgin Media Broadband: More than Everything
Article by Caroline Telford
Where other broadband providers focus on packaging and pricing, Virgin instead has a decidedly unique focus: speed. Surfing the internet through Virgin is more akin to riding waves using a rocket than a surfboard, as it utilises the latest fibre-optic technology in order to provide speeds that are above and beyond anything that the competition has to offer. For any heavy internet user, the opportunities that such speeds offer are almost too good to be true, and the temptation is definitely way too strong to deny.
Everything that can be needed
Ripping through the internet at supersonic speeds has various advantages. Putting it basically, speed on the internet equates freedom in the purest sense. Since near the dawn of the internet, cutting down on loading times have constantly been a priority, and faster and faster connection types have been developed in order to facilitate this. However, as faster and faster connection types have been developed, new and more demanding content types have been added, meaning that a website chock full with the latest features and widgets would still take the better part of a minute to load.
Thankfully, with the speeds offered by Virgin Media Broadband, load times are confined to being a thing of the past, for the time being. What would have taken minutes, instead takes seconds, and what could have been hours is reduced to minutes.
By erasing the considerable load times for a variety of high-end content types, new avenues of exploration on the internet are quite literally at the fingertips of customers. Video streaming, downloads, uploads, music streaming, file sharing, and even gaming; all of these things experience rates of performance that could not have been possible otherwise.
More than can be desired
Apart from its main selling point of high speed broadband internet, Virgin has the advantage of cross-market packages that can offer customers true value for money. With combinations that include all of broadband, phone services, as well as television services, Virgin is able to consolidate all three product lines into money-saving offers that customers can’t help but to feel drawn to. Not only that, but even the more basic broadband-only packages come in a collection of ‘sizes’ so that any customer may choose what he or she deems to be the best fit.
Also, through their exclusive broadband extras product that offers, Virgin Media Broadband makes great value products available for a minimal fraction of the cost. Not only are most of these products far cheaper than what would be paid conventionally, but also they come in complete lines of categories that are games, music, photos and kids. To be completely honest, there is something for everyone.
Blazing new trails at blazing fast speeds seems to be Virgin Media Broadband’s approach to the broadband internet market. Of course, the prospect of high speed internet browsing is such an incredible talking point that it practically guarantees to draw a crowd, all ready to sign up for the fastest ride in town.
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Broadband provider Virgin Media has launched an experimental program to deliver high-speed broadband to rural areas using telegraph poles to bypass the older copper wire network. Initial trials have started to provide the village of Woolhampton with 50 megabit connections using fibre-optic cables strung along specially constructed telegraph poles rather than under the ground. Virgin say that if the trial is successful and they can get planning permission for more poles then they could potentially roll the scheme out to a million more homes. New systems for getting high-speed broadband to rural areas are likely to be welcomed by the government who have promised to enable universal broadband access by 2012.
Virgin Broadband set to soar to 200Mbps
Article by Andy Adams
In recent years Virgin Medias adoption of NTL and Telewest has resulted in many of their customers getting a much improved service from adding the Virgin On Demand service to XL customers for free providing them with a wealth of programmes which they can watch at the drop of a hat to cheaper phone calls and call plans that rival some of the best mobile phone contracts.
In the past few years they have hired the services of actor Samuel L Jackson to promote their Broadband internet service touting better broadband for everyone with fibre optic cabling as opposed to the ancient copper wiring in place with most other providers. The fibre optic signal is not affected over distance and ensures a strong signal for all customers not those nearest to telephone exchanges.
This has become a sticking point for many keen broadband fanatics who when on copper cabling the further away from the local telephone exchange you live then the weaker the signal and the less speed youll likely achieve. Virgin has used this new promise to their advantage able to push the speed of their service up to 50Mbps at the moment, the fastest available for UK homes, or so we thought.
Virgin has recently announced they plan to upgrade their network to a blistering 200Mbps speed and this isnt dreams of the future, this should be in place by next year (2010). The timing of this announcement overshadows the plans for rival BTs own fibre network set for completion in 2012 which would take their maximum speed to 40/60Mbps.
The 200MB figure is apparently only a theoretical limit and they think that a download speed of 100Mbps is entirely possible in the near future with the cooperation of application and content providers. Of course many customers are sceptical that they will ever see speeds like this as the often disputed actual speed of broadband means that we normally only get a fraction of the advertised speed.
You wont find Virgins customers complaining though as they are at the moment paying on a three tier system where they have M, L and XL speeds, currently these sit at 10, 20 and 50Mbps respectively but every time Virgin Media has upgraded their network speeds the customers have not had to pay a penny more. Effectively they receive a service increase every year or so or whenever Virgin performs these speed increases.
The best way to measure your Broadband speed is to use some sort of broadband speed test, try not to use any bandwidth intensive services like video downloading whilst carrying out these tests. Many people have switched their internet providers in light of seeing that they are getting speeds massively under the advertised speed. Hearing from customers of other providers is often the deciding factor and if possible you should ask around friends and family members how fast their provider is.
If you are able to find another provider offering greater speeds in your area then maybe its time you switched your provider, with networks like BT and Virgin increasing their speeds through new technologies like fibre cabling then hopefully the speeds will increase and be the same wherever you live.
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Andy Adams is an experienced UK based writer
