[broadbandking]

Originally Posted by AbyssUnderground

Thank you! You're one of few people who seem to understand where I am going with my argument.

In my eyes, if Virgin can't supply the speed they advertise up to on a fairly regular basis, they shouldn't offering it.

To the person who said moving to docsis3 should have solved it, it has solved the local problems, but Virgin just don't have the backbone to cope with the demand, and again this is where STM comes into play to balance things out. I heard somewhere that they had a 40Gbps backbone? Not sure if thats the right figure but when you split that between a few million broadband customers, its not a lot in the end. 0.04Mbps if you split it between 1million customers all attempting to max out at once. Obviously that would never happen but it shows how little at 40Gbps goes. I refer you to my recent post on sensible overselling...

If anyone should want to send this into watchdog or Ofcom on a serious and professional basis I'll be with you all the way and you will have my full support.

I actually spoke to my Dad about changing our cable broadband to ADSL because I'd rather have a decent 7Mbps from Be* than a crappy 2.5Mbps-10Mbps from Virgin. We already have a BT phone line, so in the end it would cost less too.

You are correct they have a 40Gbps backbone