I have been with Sky from day one but enough is enough.
After reading this I'm off to Virgin Media.
http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/07/0...of-sky-sports/
Goodbye all.
Del.

"Paul Heslop" wrote in message
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Good luck. I went with FreeSat and the Humax Foxsat HDR. But I also
have an
appointment for a Virgin Media fibre broadband hook-up in around a week
just
to see if it really can deliver 50Mbps.

Tony

I will warn you that virgin 'shape' their traffic. It caused a bit of
a rumpus and still does really as they kind of refuse to accept that
they set download limits but they do, so even if you have a very fast
system it may run a lot slower during periods where they deem you to
have overtsepped the limits.






he said 50mbit - they don't do any of the above with that.



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Gareth.

that fly...... is your magic wand....
http://dsbdsb.mybrute.com
you fight better when you have a bear!

"Anthony R. Gold" wrote in message
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And anyway I'm not after 24/7 media streaming, I just want to know if I
will
have that order of burst speed available if and when it's occasionally
needed.




the 50mbit product is totally unshaped - with the right source you'll max it
out - such as with giganews.



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Gareth.

that fly...... is your magic wand....
http://dsbdsb.mybrute.com
you fight better when you have a bear!

Anthony R. Gold wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 07:02:03 -0700 (PDT), Del wrote:

I have been with Sky from day one but enough is enough.
After reading this I'm off to Virgin Media.
http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/07/0...of-sky-sports/

Good luck. I went with FreeSat and the Humax Foxsat HDR. But I also have an
appointment for a Virgin Media fibre broadband hook-up in around a week just
to see if it really can deliver 50Mbps.

I don't understand these claims from Virgin. Broadband delivered over your
phone line is also Fibre-optic within the exchange.

When you get Virgin's "fibre optic" broadband, they don't give you a fibre
connection, it's still co-ax.

So they are both "Fibre Optic Broadband" to some extend, but neither is Fibre
to the home.

On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:11:42 +0100, chunkyoldcortina
wrote:

Anthony R. Gold wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 07:02:03 -0700 (PDT), Del wrote:

I have been with Sky from day one but enough is enough.
After reading this I'm off to Virgin Media.
http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/07/0...of-sky-sports/

Good luck. I went with FreeSat and the Humax Foxsat HDR. But I also have an
appointment for a Virgin Media fibre broadband hook-up in around a week just
to see if it really can deliver 50Mbps.

I don't understand these claims from Virgin. Broadband delivered over your
phone line is also Fibre-optic within the exchange.

When you get Virgin's "fibre optic" broadband, they don't give you a fibre
connection, it's still co-ax.

So they are both "Fibre Optic Broadband" to some extend, but neither is Fibre
to the home.


FTTC is fibre to the PCP (street cabinet0 and from there to your house
it's a copper pair

FTTH is as it says, fibre to your home, with no use of copper

Virgin is fibre to the cabinet and then co-ax to the home (I'm
assuming they use the co-ax component of the cable for both broadband
and TV, if not then they will be using the copper pair(s) that is part
of the cable make-up)
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Cheers

Peter

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