Cable Forum - View Single Post - Started as Proportional bills for a variable service?

Gary L · 21-10-2008, 15:15

We advertise our service as an 'up to' service and never state you will always achieve the maximum speed available on any particular tier.

So there is a capacity issue?

No, there is an issue with bandwidth availability caused by lots of users
downloading an unusually large amount of data per day.

That really doesn't make much sense. Do VM buy their bandwidth per unit,
and cant afford the costs, or that theirs plenty of seats on the bus, as
long as people don't sit in them.

I dont believe there is an ISP network that could cope with all of the users
downloading all of the time.

That's interesting because when VM were trying to convince me not to go
to adsl they said that all adsl services were 'up to' and I'd never
achieve the stated speed......

STM was introduced to try and give a fairer service to all by stopping users using all of the bandwidth 24 hours a day.

Even though retentions claim that adsl doesn't give you the stated
speed, and cable does?

21-10-2008, 15:15	#1
Gary L cf.mega poster Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 16,324	Started as Proportional bills for a variable service? We advertise our service as an 'up to' service and never state you will always achieve the maximum speed available on any particular tier. So there is a capacity issue? No, there is an issue with bandwidth availability caused by lots of users downloading an unusually large amount of data per day. That really doesn't make much sense. Do VM buy their bandwidth per unit, and cant afford the costs, or that theirs plenty of seats on the bus, as long as people don't sit in them. I dont believe there is an ISP network that could cope with all of the users downloading all of the time. That's interesting because when VM were trying to convince me not to go to adsl they said that all adsl services were 'up to' and I'd never achieve the stated speed...... STM was introduced to try and give a fairer service to all by stopping users using all of the bandwidth 24 hours a day. Even though retentions claim that adsl doesn't give you the stated speed, and cable does?