Come to cambridge google! the infrastructure is old and overloaded. Also virgin media are dicks and limit download speeds.
There is a reason why the University doesn't use public infrastructure for internet...
They don't limit download speeds anymore, the only time your download speed will be reduced is if you are in a over subscribed area, and that is something that they have been working on for the past 2 years, this year and have plans to keep working on, for the foreseeable future to reduce the amount of people on each node will get rid, of all this speed reduction that happens in over subscribed areas.
As for Google Fibre, I hope they do come over here but there is only one company they can talk to, in order to actually reach a decent amount of the country and give them 1Gb speeds and that is Liberty Global aka Virgin Media, since BT, Sky, Talk Talk and Plusnet cannot give 1Gb speeds to residential customers with there current infrastructure and they are not, about to spend the billions it would cost them, to upgrade that to be able to support doing FTTH nationally.
I have been to business where they have BT Fibre and they were sold 1Gb speeds, and above but when they actually started using it and then testing it some, were only getting as much as 2Mb - 700Mb which is far from the 1Gb speed they had been sold.
I know how much Virgin is spending on building new areas and expanding to cover areas, where the network goes around some streets or neighborhoods since that is what I did 6 months ago.
I plan the installs of circuits up to 10Gb on a daily basis which includes all the civil's and cabling required, as well as the equipment required to deliver those speeds.
Believe me it is not cheap and that is why Business connections normally cost quite abit, with one circuit that I recently planned having a total install cost of £168,000 and that was for a college, and because there was a couple of circuits that they ordered for different sites Virgin covered a chunk themselves because it was, worth absorbing some of the cost due to the profit they would make from it.
I have planned a full nodal build which was for around 1000 homes, and the cost for that was in excess of £750,000 so just imagine the sort of money, BT or Google would have to spend to deliver 1Gb speeds to homes where they have no ducting for residential customers and no Fibre, as they cannot deliver those speeds over copper.
I live 0.3 miles from the nearest Virgin Media Fibre distribution point for Business customers and, to get Fibre to my house would cost around £1500, that includes the equipment and cable/splicing costs because the equipment that is installed in to houses today by Virgin Media, BT, Sky, Talk Talk and Plusnet is not capable of taking a Optical input, and if Virgin was to use the same equipment in residential houses as they do in business's then, they wouldn't have Wireless since the equipment doesn't do wireless.
Now if they did manage to get access to the Virgin Media network which no other company has managed, since AOL stopped using the network I would get it if it was available to me, but it would be a waste because there is no point at all in it.
The 1Gb speed will be for downloads and uploads within England, Scotland and Wales but as soon as you try to download something from say France or Ireland you will probably only get a max of around 250Mb, since the peering links out of the country are normally only up to 100Mb with some giving, more but not by a massive amount since the cost of bandwidth from a peering company is stupidly expensive.
Until you can get 1Gb speeds to countries where most servers are located then 1Gb is kinda pointless, unless the likes of Google, Youtube and others start having servers in the UK and while there maybe some companies that might have servers over here, most things that people would want a 1Gb connection for won't have servers over here.
I won't be upgrading from my 150Mb anytime soon
that is excessive.
