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Originally Posted by Pogo stick
Stuart, there are bound to be individual differences, as there will be on every ISPs network, but the point is, when compared across thousands of speed tests a day (and there are likely to be many more tests by VM customers than most others), VMs speed is found to be fastest on average.
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The result is meaningless. As noted above, we don't know how many are on which tariff. Virgin do have more high bandwidth subscribers than any other ISP (BT included, as BT don't go higher than 8 meg), Virgin are also the only ISP who are able (in theory) to offer speeds higher than 8 meg to around half the country.
The amount of 20 meg subscribers who are getting even half the speed they pay for will skew the results in Virgin's favour. A much fairer test would include average speeds for each tier, so we can judge for ourselves just how how likely we are to get the service we would pay an ISP for.
I am not setting out to criticise Virgin. Far from it. I have a V+ and apart from the excessive reboots needed, and a few niggles, I am perfectly happy with it. I was also a broadband customer for years, and was generally happy with that service.