Virgin Media Boosting Top Speeds to 120Mbps
Virgin Media is turning things up a notch.
Back in January of this year, Virgin Media announced plans to double speeds for over four million of its customers and boost its top speed to 120Mb. The roll-out started in February and was expected to be finished by the middle of next year. This week, Virgin announced that the time to boost its top tier 100Mb speeds had come.
"As part of its 'Double Your Speeds' programme launched earlier this year, Virgin Media has now started to boost the speeds of its 100Mb customers to 120Mb," the company said via news release today. "The new 120Mb tier continues to push the boundaries of broadband speeds available in the UK and will ensure Virgin Media broadband customers continue to receive some of the fastest speeds in Europe."
Virgin says it has already upgraded 40 percent of its network for faster speeds and claims to be the only ISP in the UK with superfast broadband speeds as standard. The Double Your Speeds program will see Virgin's 10Mb, 20Mb, 30Mb and 50Mb services double by the middle of next year.

Dude, if you're a virginian, you can't put a price on downloading pr0n that fast.
But to be fair... how much does a "Virginian" have to pay for that speed ?
Dude, if you're a virginian, you can't put a price on downloading pr0n that fast.
Looking at their site it says £29.75/month for 3 months then £34.75 per month after that.
http://store.virginmedia.com/broadband/compare-broadband/index.html
You could get it with a phone line bundle for ~£5 more per month (but it'll be cheaper for 6 months not 3). OR if you wanted to, £46.62 per month for 6 months then £93.25 after that with Spotify Premium for 3 months, 1tb TiVo box with an extra one for another room with a load of sports and movie channels (couple hundred channels with 37 HD), unlimited anytime to landline + VM numbers with cheaper international calls.
http://store.virginmedia.com/bundles/our-collections.html
Or you could go for the 60mb option which looks much better value.
AHAH! I see what you did there =)
Damn, men don't cry, but this is getting me close to it :-)
Guy from NY...New Yorker.
guy from Texas...Texan
Virgin Media user... Virginian :-)
And believe it or not, there is an IT world outside of Gaming and Porn !
altough i do make a fair few of my American Friends envious.
Yes!!
It is!! More gaming and more Porn!
Exactly. The bandwidth may be wasted but not the service. Engorged e-peen is worth any price! ;-D
I'm wielding a limp 8MB and the ISPs' "Enlarge your e-peen" spam does nothing for dwindling self esteem. :-(
Lol. ;O)
guy from Texas...Texan
Virgin Media user... Virginian :-)
And believe it or not, there is an IT world outside of Gaming and Porn !
So if you live in Tampa does that make you a Tampon?
Uh, Sweden and most of the other European countries are at 300-500Mbps and now Sweden is upgrading to a 1Gbps connections.
120Mbps is still fast, but not the fastest in Europe! Not by a long shot! Wish I had that kinda speed here in the U.S.
Come on Google Fiber...
ok, i want to watch netflix... oh, whats this... if i watch netflix over wifi, everything that connected to that router gets so crippled that it makes it un useable on a 70mbit line?
yea... i would be willing to pay more for the headroom
I'm sure you would with a name like "frombehind"