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Old 25-06-2008, 17:22   #358
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Re: New STM/Virgin traffic managent confirmed - so that's why it's slow!

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Originally Posted by Sirius View Post
Sorry i have worked on DSL products for years and that information is incorrect.

We can debate this all night but at the end of the day why would BE be giving each customer a 1 to 1 connection on to a dslam. they dont offer that to a business customer.

found a page that gives the info

http://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/pa...ited-24mb.html
I do not doubt that you have a lot more expertise in this field than me BUT the 10 - contention ratio you quoted was from Vaioni which leases the service from Be and offers businesses 20Mb down and 2.5Mb up at a cost of £140.00 pm.

I take it that this is a guaranteed speed - hence the cost.

When I went to Be all they said was that I could EXPECT a speed of 16Mbps so far they have done better than that! Up until recently I was a cable customer before Nynex. C&W Telewest etc. and before the advent of broadband, or even the internet.

Everything was as sweet as apple pie until the advent of Virgin Media, Then everything went downhill which is why I jumped ship and went to be, the best move I ever made!

Even on here whilst I was a VM customer techs were saying there was something wrong, I'd had engineers round on several occasions after paying for the phone call.

In all the time I was paying for a 20Mbps connection I never reached more than 12Mbps and that was a one - off the average was nearer 6Mbps and I still have the records to prove it.

Rant over!
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