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Originally Posted by Carl J
You were fine till you typed $ky, not really the way to have your comments taken seriously, and actually the majority of urban and suburban lines are capable of 8Mbit+ over ADSL2+, and the vast majority capable of over 4Mbps.
Can I please draw your attention to the following:
http://www.speedtest.net/global.php?...nt=3&country=
Shows a higher average speed for Sky Broadband / Easynet than either of the former components of VM, as do the figures at
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/i/2978.html
Sky 3,340 Kbps
Virgin Media (cable) 2,978 Kbps
Bearing in mind that customers of both will vary from 2Mbit/s upwards, and that Sky customers will go as low potentially as 512kbps. |
Those are only averages though. It takes no account of the VM split in customers between those on 2MB (more likely given the deal packages) and those on 10MB. It also makes no distinction between speed tests done on LLU (with those on the paid LLU being more likely to try a speed test) and those without LLU.
The problem with averages is that for a survey like that there are way too many factors to take into account.
The area I live in proves that - TW averages 5MB while Sky only averages 4. How does that compare with the 3.4 and 3?