Virgin Media Demos World's Fastest Internet Service In the UK

siliconbits writes with word that yesterday, "UK-based cable broadband provider Virgin Media announced that it has begun testing internet speeds of up to 1.5Gbps in London using four startups from the 'Silicon Roundabout' hub as lucky guinea pigs. The 1.5Gbps trial, Virgin Media claims, uses the same cable infrastructure and technology that powers the broadband service for millions of households in the UK and is even faster than the projected 1Gbps speed that South Korean ISPs are proposing to implement in 2012. Earlier this year, ARRIS announced that it is working with SK broadband to deliver speeds of up to 800Mbps by combining 16 Downstream channels."

yay?

[vawwyakr]

I am sure in this crowd I'll get booed...but what would I use this for? I can already stream HD video. I suppose it might be good if I was downloading HD videos for viewing later, I guess amazon is letting you do that now. But my bandwidth I get on basic FIOs is more than enough about 99% of the time. I find more often that the source is the bottleneck not my pipe. I'd rather see them focusing on widening their pipes so they can't whine and complain (or charge you to hell) when people actually use the bandwidth they're given.