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Originally Posted by dontpannic
Rubbish. Why should something that will affect 5% of users affect the broadband quality? If anything it will make it better!
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There are countless posts that show that the action being taken against the supposed 5% is having
no discernable positive affect on many users of these forae since its implementation. In fact, quite the opposite.
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Originally Posted by dontpannic
Do they? To how many of thier customers? Exactly? If it were all 4 million of them I don't think I'd be going home to a VM connection tonight...
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We are talking about a company here who have, and I quote, "no idea" of how many cloned modems there are currently drawing on their network resource. Think yourself lucky you have a connection at all.
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Originally Posted by dontpannic
So you would put up with something thats rubbish just because you couldn't be bothered to switch providers? Do me a lemon!
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Why should it be allowed to become rubbish in the first place? Because of a providers greed for custom and marketshare when there is already evidence suggesting that its current infrastructure is incapable of achieving what they maintained it would?
Simon Duffy - Chief Executive Officer August 8th 2005:
“Anyone signing up to ntl Broadband today can look forward to surfing at 10Mb in the near future."
Really Simon? Now that's interesting.
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Originally Posted by dontpannic
It isn't cable or nothing. ADSL is available to quite a large proportion of the UK, Dial-up is available to all telephone lines, satellite broadband is available to 98% of the UK, so there are always alternatives should you wish to switch.
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You are entirely, and probably intentionally, missing the point. In common parlance it is referred to as having been "sold a pup", "moving the goalposts" etc etc.