iOS 8 launch sparks busiest download day for Virgin Media

Yesterday, 17th September was the busiest ever day on Virgin Media's network as the release of iOS 8 caused a 10% increase in peak download traffic, compared week on week. According to the network's statistics, total data between 6pm and midnight topped 5,900 terabytes.

The increase seen on Virgin Media's superfast cable network was equivalent to the 920MB update being downloaded over 600,000 times.

Martin Groundsell, Head of Broadband Access at Virgin Media said: From what we've seen so far, the release of iOS 8 has driven more internet traffic than previous updates, with increased demand likely to last until the weekend. Even though the iOS 8 release has generated the biggest download day so far, our fastest customers have been downloading iOS 8 in as little as 61 seconds at peak times with no major problems reported.

Despite being available for less than 24 hours, iPhone and iPad users have already made their mark on the London Underground WiFi network built by Virgin Media. Over 13% of Apple devices connecting to the network are already running the new iOS 8 operating system.

The superfast broadband provider has even seen Apple users turn to the WiFi service it provides at London Underground stations, with one BT customer tweeting that they could get the update 85 times faster at their local station compared to an estimated 10 hours on their home connection:

Luke Twomery: @goopery My wifi at home said 10 hours for download but the WiFi on the underground says 7 mins #ios8 https://twitter.com/goopery.

iOS 8 download times for Virgin Media fibre customers during last night's peak times:

Speed

Download time during peak times 17th Sept

50Mb

2 min 44 sec

100Mb

1 min 22 sec

152Mb

1 min 1 sec

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