that would be me
dont you just hate blogs posting about "
One Way Internet" that wont let you comment in return without signing up first... anyway heres what i would have postered there.
if you think that current worst uk bb virgin media 26:1 ratio is bad, rest assured the vm executives in the US taking your money for their bonuses and pulling more and more out of the reinvestment pot % for your new cable plant use are looking to beat even their own official worst broadband ratio in the whole uk.
when they roll out the current trials of 50Mbit to the consumer this year they have confirmed and argued that they intend selling you a brand new 34.33/1 ratio sevice in their 50Mbit/1.5Mbit upload package.
do the math after overheads of tcp:ip ack on your return path of generic ethernet ,not even adding in the extra cable packets and its clear YOU WILL NEVER ATTAIN A FULL 50Mbit compressed binary download with that upload rate EVER.
they are/will in effect falsely charging for a sevice speed they knowingly will never allow you to attain, all due to that worst uk ratio EVER that cant supply the contracted download speed due entirely to that upload speed being set far to low.
something like 1.87Mbit AT THE VERY LEAST is required to attain that 50Mbit download speed at least sometimes outside STM hours.
time to send in the lawyers and get your county courts involved if the govt bodys will not act ,will you ?