VIRGIN BROADBAND
Next-gen fragging for discerning gamers
Another night, another marathon Call Of Duty 4 session. You’ve finally scoped out the enemy sniper who’s been picking off your team with a cold eye and withered husk of a heart, and crept into position inch by painstaking inch. Your finger slowly depresses the trigger and… wham. One moment the enemy is crouching, helpless, under your crosshairs, the next he suddenly, impossibly, flits out of harm’s way, safe to kill another day. The dreaded lag strikes again.
You’ve lost the match, your team is humiliated, and all because your sister has been hogging precious bandwidth uploading her photos to Facebook again. War is hell, they say – especially with sluggish broadband.
Thankfully, thanks to Virgin Media’s new, up-to- 50Mb fibre optic broadband, rolling out from later this year, tragic gaming injustices like this will soon be a thing of the past. With fibre optics, latency and lag are all but eliminated, meaning no more lucky escapes by online adversaries, super-low ping rates, and frag counts that’ll soar into the stratosphere. Whether you’re downloading demos from Xbox Live, uploading your latest LittleBigPlanet creation, or taking on all-comers in COD4, get ready to enjoy dizzying speeds.
Even better, Virgin Media’s up-to-50Mb broadband is so fast that all the family can happily play, listen, watch and surf simultaneously – meaning arguments are also off the agenda.
Welcome to fibre optic. Welcome to the Mother of all Broadband.
WHAT DOES UP TO 50Mb MEAN
The Virgin Media tech team is justifiably proud of its fibre optic
broadband technology, and its performance figures reveal why.
Imagine downloading an entire album in ten seconds, a song in
one second, a TV show in just one minute, a DVD-sized game in
under 12 minutes, or an Xbox Live HD movie in around 15 minutes.
Imagine YouTube without… those… incredibly… irritating…
pauses. Or totally lag-free sessions on COD4. Or all of the above,
almost all at once. Don’t you want a piece of that future-proof pie?
Then come over to Virgin Media.
CAN I GET IT?
Until up to 50Mb comes your way,
you can choose from three broadband
packages, all with the low latency
fibre optic advantage: up to 2Mb,
10Mb and 20Mb. Prices start at £4.50
a month when you take a Virgin
phone line for £11 a month.
For more info and to check if your
street is cabled, call 0800 052 2525 or
go to virginmedia.com/mother
THE FIBRE OPTIC DIFFERENCE
There are two main types of broadband in use today: copper
wire and fibre optic. The former technology has been around
since the 1870s, while the latter uses strands of pure glass as
thin as human hair to transmit data at the speed of light. One
is struggling to keep up with the demands of today’s web, while
the other is from Virgin Media. Point your browser at the URL
below to see how the technology stacks up…
www.virginmedia.com/mother
