daveleebond
Inactive User
but why is it our fault that an isp cannot cope?
they should upgrade, at least vgen in some areas are going optical
they should upgrade, at least vgen in some areas are going optical
but why is it our fault that an isp cannot cope?
they should upgrade, at least vgen in some areas are going optical
a questtion i asked earlier, why is upstream always slower?
If I am with BT and I get 8mbps then its the same speed as a cable companies 8mbps.
If I am getting 8mbps on BT then that will be the same speed as 8mbps from any other ISP - regardless off whether they use DSL or cable.
I had NO issues on 10mb (could download at 1.2mb/s and upload at 70k/s 24/7 if I chose) - it's only since they introduced the new traffic management - so it seems likely to be related - at first it was only a few hours a day and so I stopped traffic during those hours - moving all p2p to between midnight and 8am etc - but it got worse and rapidly became unusable at pretty much all times of day - given the fact that I had a cable net connection on the same ubr for years which worked fine, and the fact it's all gone downhill since they introduced capping - I cant see this being down solely to new subscribers in my area - IMHO the capping system is broken/faulty/not functioning in a correct manner/etc.You have another problem I think - thats not stm !
There are areas that are heavily oversubscribed which reduce in speed to a crawl as the available bandwidth is shared out to all the available customers connected to that node (you are in contention with other users).
This, I agree is unacceptable and should be sorted by vm. They should of stuck with their working contention ratios and upgraded as necessary rather than simply just adding new customers and breaking their own rules.
six and two threes really - possibly the cable ISP didnt expect to get so many people using it like this, and cant maintain the infrastructure to match it.
virmin should sort it out they shouldn't be allowed to sell something they cant supply ie
you dont see the milkman give people half pints cause he aint got anuff to go round and still charging for a pint
the say 20mb and unlimited so thats what it should be
do they have a fair usage policy?
is there an isp watchdog or ombudsman?
and for those people who say you are downloading too much, i am paying for a service, its non of you business what i choose to do with it
I am not sure it would settle down.
There would always be people with hooky connections trying to download as much as they can each day on a residential connection.
@daveleeblond - the ISP is concerned with what you download, they dont want to end up in trouble for some peoples possible illegal activities on the Internet.
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