- Bournemouth to get fibre broadband
- Posted by Cork Soaker on May 8th, 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7387836.stm
"Virgin Media is speeding up its cable network and over the course of this
year the whole of of its network will be upgraded to 50Mbps."
(The double "of" is the usual BBC incompetence).
What is the point in VM upgrading to 50mbps if it has ridiculous caps on it?
There is NO point in having a superfast broadband connection you're not
allowed to use!
- Posted by Steve Terry on May 8th, 2008
"Cork Soaker" <ISawYourMotherLast@Night.invalid> wrote in message
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advertise the truth
I had Virgin ADSL Max last year, never downloaded more than 3Gb a month.
Lived close to the exchange, got throttled from 6Mbps at night,
to maybe 200kbps at peak times.
Never again.
Steve Terry
- Posted by Ivor Jones on May 9th, 2008
In news:fvvub5$297$1@registered.motzarella.org,
Cork Soaker <ISawYourMotherLast@Night.invalid> typed, for some strange,
unexplained reason:
: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7387836.stm
:
: "Virgin Media is speeding up its cable network and over the course of
: this year the whole of of its network will be upgraded to 50Mbps."
: (The double "of" is the usual BBC incompetence).
:
: What is the point in VM upgrading to 50mbps if it has ridiculous caps
: on it? There is NO point in having a superfast broadband connection
: you're not allowed to use!
You *are* allowed to use it, just not for very long..!
Ivor
- Posted by dennis@home on May 9th, 2008
"Steve Terry" <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote in message
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You get what you pay for and the Virgin brand is not cheap.
Like most branded products you get less as some of your cash never gets to
the supplier but goes straight to the brand owner. Brand owners don't
generally make products BTW, they just buy the same Chinese cr@p and stick
their badges on and call the original stuff fakes along with all the true
fakes that appear later.
- Posted by Eeyore on May 9th, 2008
Ivor Jones wrote:
A couple of minutes @ full blast should get you capped.
Graham
- Posted by Graham. on May 9th, 2008
A thread about shit broadband, and nobody has mentioned TISP yet.
http://www.google.com/tisp/
--
Graham
%Profound_observation%
- Posted by Cork Soaker on May 9th, 2008
: > You *are* allowed to use it, just not for very long..!
:
: A couple of minutes @ full blast should get you capped.
That VOD screwed. HD VOD is a ridiculous dream to you poor VM subscribers.
:-)
- Posted by Woody on May 9th, 2008
"Cork Soaker" <ISawYourMotherLast@Night.invalid> wrote in message
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No, you can have a feed as fast as you like but you will never see it
because of the appalling contention ratios in this country.
Joe Public 'understands' speed so they push that, but they never do
anything about contention. Having used a 1Mb uncontended feed I can tell
you is one hell of a sight faster than a 10Mb at usual UK contention of
50:1.
--
Woody
harrogate three at ntlworld dot com
- Posted by Eeyore on May 9th, 2008
Woody wrote:
BT's Max DSL doesn't have a fixed contention ratio. It's dynamic or
somesuch. They claim that this means in practice that one shouldn't see
significant contention issues ever arise.
But you can also get a 20:1 contention ration (or better) if you shop around
and there's a 'max premium' that gives your traffic priority whilst it's
still passing through BT's equipment. Most perform,ance problems with max
are down to the cheapskate ISPs overselling their product and under
investing in capacity. Move to a decent ISP such as Idnet (who actually
*over* provision capacity) and you don't have these problems at all.
Graham
- Posted by Cork Soaker on May 9th, 2008
: BT's Max DSL doesn't have a fixed contention ratio. It's dynamic or
: somesuch. They claim that this means in practice that one shouldn't see
: significant contention issues ever arise.
:
I get 80% full speed at worst. :-)
No idea what the contention ratio is supposed to be, but I live in an area
where they don't know what a computer is, so that might help.
- Posted by naza on May 10th, 2008
I dont think this was ever real, I think it was one google's pranks.
Read here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_hoaxes#Google_TiSP
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http://technicianspot.blogspot.com
- Posted by Cork Soaker on May 10th, 2008
: I dont think this was ever real, I think it was one google's pranks.
But you're not sure?
- Posted by Gizmo. on May 11th, 2008
"naza" <naza911@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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<sigh>
