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Originally Posted by brk
Don't hold your breath when you do get the upgrade ,I had a better stable speed when I was still on 4 mb service ,occasionally you do get a good speed but most of the time I'm lucky if I get much more than 5 mb some upgrade this has been ,the only + side is the upload speed has gone from 44k up to 60 k ,marketing ploy for bad service "Free upgrade from 4 mb to 10 mb " don't make me laugh Virgin  |
I'd have to agree with you there!
I've been with VM/NTL for years had excellent service, and until recently was happy to recommend them to anybody. But for several months now the service seems to be deteriorating in this area. Until a few months ago the connection would max out and I got rock-solid download of 480KB/s from newsgroups or other good sources on my 4Mb/s, and 18 mths ago when I was on 10Mb/s it was very unusual not to get rock-solid download of 1.2MB/s from newsgroups or other good sources.
Not anymore! I haven't seen a download max out the connection properly for at least 4-5mths. On 4Mb/s on a good day it hovered around 300-450KB/s, now with the "upgrade" to 10Mb/s I am mostly seeing a very variable 250-800KB/s with occasional peaks to 1MB/s. Even on a multi-thread download I've just completed at 1:30am it didn't go above 800KB/s.
Seems to me I'm seeing evidence that the infrastructure in this area is crumbling under the strain!!!