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Doesnt make much sense to me, but maybe someone would like to correct me.

If you go to replace some hardware then usually you would have the new hardware ready to inststall, remove the old one, push in the new one, do some last minuite config changes and that would be it. Ive seen datacenters replace routers and switches with just minuites of downtime.

Whenever i have been getting slow speeds, i have been able to get fast speeds to mirrors.virginmedia.com which says to me that the problem is not with their internal capacity, but thier external capacity. This in turn says to me that any upgrades should be to the size of their external connections. Adding in a nice gigabit connection to somone like Verio, globalcrossing, even bt core could help a lot.

As we cannot see whats going on within the network, we may never know, but my suspision is that its not with the internal network.