Thread: how about we start a campaign to let VM know that we DONT LIKE SHAPING
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Old 15-05-2007, 10:17   #263
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Re: how about we start a campaign to let VM know that we DONT LIKE SHAPING
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Originally Posted by Paul H View Post
Well as long as it is still faster than dial up and others. then I suppose that is all that matters!
Don't be sarcastic mate, not a good tone there.

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Provide it in figures? how can they be providing it when they are reducing everyones speed?
How are they reducing everyones speed? Mine certainly hasn't gone down, as with many friends and relatives with VM. I think you'll find that not every VM customer has registered on these forums...



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We could believe that before. but when you find out that they have no money to upgrade the infastructure. you have to think that is the real reason.
And are you suprised? When ever VM decide to do something that will benefit the network, all you hear is "crap I goin 2 Sky coz deyll let me dnload lts of porn n illegal tv init"

I'm only 18 but I find it disgusting that nobody can see that Virgin are doing this to keep customers happy and stop the network abusers bringing the network down to its knees.

It seems that whenever there is a new post about speeds, without looking at the facts its definitely traffic shaping causing that, get Sky instead, when that is a rubbish point of view.
  • People complaining about STM on 10meg connections are talking crap. 10meg hasn't been enabled with STM yet, so how they are definitely 100% certainly being shaped even though they definitely haven't downloaded anything at all is beyond me.
  • People don't seem to be looking at the facts. A 20meg connection bringing downstream bandwidth of 1 meg is NOT an STM issue!!! 20meg is shaped to 5, not 1meg.
I'm just getting sick of it now. It seems no-one can do anything for anyone nowadays without some do-gooding jobsworth butting in "ooh no, that speed isn't a problem with your modem its definitely being shaped there. Ooh phone up and complain, then get a nice big discount".

It seems people are assuming EVERYONE is suffering slow speeds. I'm certainly not. I was downloading Ubuntu last night at a solid 2.27MB/s which is definitely the correct speed. Then had a few hours online gaming. I never hit the throttling limit. (and before you say that my area isn't being throttled, it is, I have 20mb).

Many people here have really got to wake up and smell the coffee. This isn't the end of the world. Yeah, your downloads may take a little longer but who cares? It's not like a relative of yours has been diagnosed with a terminal disease (even then you can bet your life it's Virgin Medias fault ).

Nick
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