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Originally Posted by JustAnotherN00b
Where would you draw the line tho Kroneh, if NTL gave you 3Mbit would you be happy only achieving 2Mbit at peak times? Some people believe it's a leased line, these are the same people who leave P2P apps on all the time, usually stuff like kazaa, and think it's their absolute duty to download as much as possible all the time because 'They are paying for it.'. Where do you draw the line between acceptable performance for a shared service and giving the impression of no contention, the price paid for this is innovation to be honest.
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the way NTL initially offered the service is i think what people are laying their premesis on, i would accept a service to be slightly slower at peak times if a 3mbit service was introduced, i have been very fortunate to be in an area with low usage of down and upstream, i know others have the misfortune of being on crowded ubr's or being on a relatively low user upstream and being hit with mass p2p clogging activties....
you pay for what you get, when i signed up for this service i was told my downloads can be faster, i can download music files and 'large' movie files, those were the old enticing leaflets.
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Originally Posted by JustAnotherN00b
FWIW I'm a massive advocate of higher speeds, however in this case I am, necessarily, playing devil's advocate. If people want the speeds they need to show demand, the applications are SLOWLY but surely arriving to push this forward, especially in the upstream direction, however those wanting more upstream to improve their share ratio on P2P apps or host the latest leet warez are I suspect going to be disappointed.
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it is true that quite alot of people want more upstream speed, but p2p is here to stay, there are others out there who want to transfer files from home to remote servers and such so there is that fine balance aswell of trying to provide customers a good service while not trying to 'break the bank' so to speak.
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Originally Posted by JustAnotherN00b
Yes this ISPs feed isn't good, however I'm moving to another one that will supply the 100% speeds that I should get at the contention ratio.
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unless you get hit again on the way in
my main concern is that broadband in this country should be 'high speed' unfortunately alot of the 'top brass' fail to realise the capabilitys of broadband as an educational tool
