Well said. I would happily pay extra for more upstream. I don't know how many times I've said it on this forum either... 50/5 sounds a lot nicer, and yes, people WILL pay for it, yet virgin won't give us it and I have to keep asking why.
I totally agree with your points about virgin wanting you to share you life over the likes of Facebook and sharing your photos/videos, but how can they expect us to do it with such a pitiful upload, or an upload that is penalised when you try to use it? I just don't get it. For the fastest ISP in the UK overall (for download speed), and matching Be*there's average, they sure have a bad attitude about making the service better.
If virgin were to offer an "upload plus" service, where they reduced the download in favor of upload (a bit like Be*), I'd even be up for that too. Either way, charging more or sacrificing the download for the upload, people would buy it or people would sacrifice download for it.
People like me who host websites on dedicated servers, and have hundreds of gigabytes of data to syncronise with the server (540gb in total for me alone), thats hard with 512Kbps upload, which I only get
sometimes. I'd move to Be* but I'm too far from the exchange to get anything over 3Mbps on ADSL, so cable and virgin is my only option.
Virgin, please please please, listen to the customers for once!!! - You never know, you might actually make some money this way!
