Virgin Media has revealed it has successfully been able to deliver broadband speeds of 'up to' 1.5Gbps in a trial.
The trial, which began in April this year, is taking place in conjunction with four firms located in Old Street, London – an area which is known as 'Silicon Roundabout', and offers downloads speeds that are more than 240 times faster than the national average net connection. Members of TechHub, a community and workspace for technology entrepreneurs, located in the area is among the firms taking part in the trial.
The 1.5Gbps broadband access, which also offers upload speeds of 'up to' 150Mbps, utilises the same Data-Over-Cable Service Interface specification (DOCSIS) cable-based technology as Virgin Media uses to provide residential customers that opt for the 100Mbps package that is already available to 25 percent of the UK.
"As people are simultaneously connecting more gadgets to the internet and doing more online than ever before, we wanted to explore what our unique fibre optic network is capable of," said Jon James, executive director of broadband at Virgin Media
Communications Minister Ed Vaizey said it was fantastic to see the fastest internet speeds in the world over cable being trialled in the UK.
"Last year the Prime Minister set out our ambition for London's East End to become a world-leading technology city to rival Silicon Valley. Developments like Virgin Media's will help make this ambition a reality."
According to the ISP, some of the firms involved in the trial have been utilising the fast upload speed to enable them to edit movies from the cloud, a process would be virtually impossible on slower connections.
The ISP said that in the future it would roll out faster broadband to consumers, as it will ensure that several members of one household can downloads of stream TV and movies at the same time without interruption, but it will be reliant on laptops and ethernet ports being able to handle the speeds.
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Gillaroo said: DragonmistA thousand pardons
Dragonmist said: This guy from Windsor is actually a female and a Great Grandmother LOL Although we are closer to Windsor our Exchange is at Egham Going by the past history of BB equipment being stolen from there I assume it is little better than a garden shed and apparently unmanned With previous ISPs I have been left sans BB for up to a week as the Engineers had to wait until a BT Engineer was available to let them in
Gillaroo said: Big wow Let them invest some money in extending their network Whether its Virgin or any other network provider crowing about their mega sppeds when only a very few percent of the population can get get them- the vast majority are completely underwhemed Like the guy near Windsor- I am 3 miles from the centre of a large town and 20 miles south of Glasgow - not up a highland glen and get about 3meg on a good day
Millais said: good for them - but what about the parts of the country who still get under 1mb like me focusing on the wrong things simple things such as providing steady reliable and faster connections for other parts of the UK should be focused upon first
Roberttrebor said: Since the firmware update to the superhub I have been able to get 20 to 30 mbitsec the 20 being at peak timesHopefully the next firmware update will allow us to use the piece of junk as a modem amp use own own routers in bridge mode
Dragonmist said: Im not missing much then Andy I am told their cable TV is more expensive than Sky
Andy Bristow said: Virgin Media are so good I downgraded my package from 30Mb to 10Mb because their Superhub was a piece of crap They should get their hardware sorted first before making unsupported claims
Dragonmist said: We dont have Virgin out here 4 miles from Windsor but might as well be Outer Mongolia Like Bob Pike I dont get even 2MB Usually 17MB with Talktalk though BT still insist they can only guarantee 512Kb over the same phone line
Condom said: The strength of a country is measured somewhat by how it looks after its poor not its rich Who cares when many Virgin customers cannot even get 05 mbps You never hear them blowing their trumpets about this failure so why should you be giving them free advertising for this
BobFromBristol said: Excellent But meanwhile myself and others have to put up with 15Mb What about us then