Virgin trials 200Mbit/sec broadband

Yes, that's right! 200Mbit/sec broadband! That is 25MB/s! :o

They are achieving this by bonding together four of their standard 50Mbit/s connections which are already available to Virgin fibre customers. And Virgin say they can go further and bond 8 together to create a 400Mbit/s connection if needed, meaning 50MB/s :o:o!!!

The initial trial is only going to offer 100 lucky customers and employees the chance to test it, and these will be hand picked, not selected by sign up.

Virgin said that they will take at least 6 months to a year before looking at a potential rollout.

Imagine being able to download 25MB/s. I thought ADSL2+ was fast with 24Mb/s meaning 3MB/s, and even ADSL with 8Mb/s or 1MB/s. But 25MB/s would be amazing. You could download a 1GB file in 41 seconds! Or a whole DVD9 game in under 6 minutes! Mad!

I believe they already have Gigabit internet available to the consumer over in Japan ... at similar prices to what we pay for our measly 10 Mbit connections here. Now that's mad! :thumbs:

Korea were the first to get 100Mbit broadband, and I think they are still the leaders in broadband speed, with Japan close behind.

10Mbit? In the UK most people are lucky to have 3Mbit unless they live in the right street, in the right city.