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Sput · 22-04-2008, 18:52

"The trial aims to prevent or reduce the effects of a minority of users abusing the network and preventing the majority of subscribers from having the network performance they desire.

For the vast majority of customers, upwards of 95% of the base, their experience will be a more consistent speed (both upload and download)."

I could not agree more with Paranoimia. Moreover, if Virgin are correct in that only 5% of thier customers are causing problems then surely they should take action against the 5% causing the problem rather than applying the restriction to all of their customers.

A simple analogy is drawing petrol from a petrol station. The 95% good customers pay for 20 gallons of petrol but when they complain that only 10 gallons has been delivered are told that this is because 5% of bad customers have taken more than their allocated 20 gallons and so the petrol station has to limit supplies. The analogy is not technically perfect but it does illustrate the unacceptable stance being adopted by Virgin!

22-04-2008, 18:52	#14
Sput Inactive Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Swindon, Wiltshire Age: 83 Services: Virgin 20 Meg BB; Virgin phone; SKY HD Posts: 52	Re: New Virgin traffic managent - so that's why it's slow! "The trial aims to prevent or reduce the effects of a minority of users abusing the network and preventing the majority of subscribers from having the network performance they desire. For the vast majority of customers, upwards of 95% of the base, their experience will be a more consistent speed (both upload and download)." I could not agree more with Paranoimia. Moreover, if Virgin are correct in that only 5% of thier customers are causing problems then surely they should take action against the 5% causing the problem rather than applying the restriction to all of their customers. A simple analogy is drawing petrol from a petrol station. The 95% good customers pay for 20 gallons of petrol but when they complain that only 10 gallons has been delivered are told that this is because 5% of bad customers have taken more than their allocated 20 gallons and so the petrol station has to limit supplies. The analogy is not technically perfect but it does illustrate the unacceptable stance being adopted by Virgin!