Cable Forum - View Single Post - Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February

tubbles · 27-03-2008, 16:17

"Hopefully they won't just leave it at that and start tuning the network or load balancing or whatever they do, just upping the speed and not configuring the network to cope would be a bit silly. "

Well if they do upgrade us, and these are the speeds that we get, they will still be able to say that thousands or millions of people are on our "up to" 10mb service. they (VM) will use the numbers on the service, even if they get nowhere near the speed, to advertise that they are the biggest broadband provider in the speed bracket. I am by no means a disgruntled user (yet) as i get a solid 4mb connection in Birkenhead. As a business selling point it would be great advertising. Perhaps the 10mb will not suffer as many problems as the 20 seems to but get ready for it just in case.

27-03-2008, 16:17	#398
tubbles Inactive Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Birkenhead Age: 63 Services: Ntl digital TV and Bells and whistles mmmmm 10mb Broadband 8) Posts: 68	Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer "Hopefully they won't just leave it at that and start tuning the network or load balancing or whatever they do, just upping the speed and not configuring the network to cope would be a bit silly. " Well if they do upgrade us, and these are the speeds that we get, they will still be able to say that thousands or millions of people are on our "up to" 10mb service. they (VM) will use the numbers on the service, even if they get nowhere near the speed, to advertise that they are the biggest broadband provider in the speed bracket. I am by no means a disgruntled user (yet) as i get a solid 4mb connection in Birkenhead. As a business selling point it would be great advertising. Perhaps the 10mb will not suffer as many problems as the 20 seems to but get ready for it just in case.