Were you on VM 350 previously?
Are you noticing much real world difference?

Since I've been spending most of my time at my girlfriends in the past 12 months I've been on a 35mbit Sky connection. Whilst it's obviously not as quick as my home VM 350mbit connection, for day to day use it's not a whole lot different.

Netflix streams quickly, Sky on demand stuff, Youtube, etc etc

Jim speeds are obviously lower, but if you're not in a massive rush it's no big deal.

Just if, for whatever reason, I want to download a big file it feels slow.
I do like seeing 35+ MB/s download speeds.

Upload speed is a bit pants, but being able to shift 20+GB in an 8 hour period means my nightly backups of photos etc back to my home server work fine.

Would I take a gigabit connection for £40/month? Absolutely, wouldn't think twice.

Whoa.

~7mbit upload speed - nothing ground breaking.
0.875 MB/s upload
8 hours = 24.6 GB

OIC, you meant the capacity, not the actual volume of nightly uploads.

Yeah, rarely hit the limit unless I've had a big trip out or not backed up in a couple of weeks.

Probably helps that I've stopped shooting bracketed for the time being, so I'm not taking 3x the photos I need.

I had/have their 200 mbit service. There is a huge improvement for usenet, but no, for most things no big difference. Thing is, Zen offered the 900+ thing for the same price as Virgin's 200+, so why not?

I still have Virgin until 16 May and I'm quite attracted by the prospect of Northern Exposure, 115 episodes, around 460GB.

I recently did the Virgin cancelation dance and ended up upgrading to their gigabit service. The new hub thing seems, so far, a chunk more reliable than the SUPER hub 3 I had before.

We live in a wee village so I'm not spoiled for choice when it comes to ISPs - I believe there's FTTC through openreach, but I cut my BT phoneline down as it was annoying me and so now it just terminates by being tied round a branch on my apple tree. Virgin Media cabled the village about 5 years ago (we've been here 3), so it's all shiny new fibre to the premises stuff. And as there's only about 2k people in the village, contention ratios have never been much of an issue.

Shame about the upload speed, though: Gigabit down, 50 meg up  T_T

If you're stuck for seeders let me know, I have them all downloaded - although I'm not convinced they've got the right soundtrack (licensing issues meant many of the home format releases of the show had shitty musak instead of the real stuff). Should probably check that at some point....

There was a blu-ray remaster with all the original music (oddly enough produced for the UK market not the US). Somebody left all 110 episodes lying around on usenet. 

If Virgin had offered a Gbit connection for the same price, I'd have been completely happy to stay with them. Their cable internet was fine at 200 Mbits, but they were 100% set to exploit the "fastest show in town" act with loads of stuff I didn't want. When I asked for a breakdown of the bill, which was hitting a £100 per month, they completely played the "it's complicated" card so I thought, fuck it, let's just get rid of it all.

Be interested to know what the GBit service costs, because they quoted me £50 for the 500Mbit service and £60 something for the Gbit service (when it's available)...although, fair enough, they admitted they weren't going to beat the £40 Zen price.