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Originally Posted by suggsy
Just to add my 2 penneth, and please excuse my ignorance as im a fairly newbie, but, i'm on 20mg virgin, just been using newsgroups for my downloading, (costs me an extra $30 p/month), when not being tm'd i get 2.33mb/s d/l speed stable, when tm'd it's more like 600kb/s, so all in all pretty damn good really although it does cost for newsgroups and newsreaders etc, plus i try to d/l most of my stuff after 11pm, sorry if this has been irrelevent but thought i'd input  |
Not irrelevant but a prime example of what ordinary people perceive. Depending upon the distance from your serving node, you should be getting 5-8 times that speed with no restriction at any time of day. What you state suggests you are receiving a service that VM and other ISPs charge a far smaller rate for. Can the Virgin guys correct me here: what is it, £37/month *(£20, XL) for 20Mb, £17 *(£14 L) for 10Mb and less by competitors for what this person is receiving?
Thanks!
*Corrections marked - thanks to BenMcr. I had been paying £37 for the 20Mb broadband element (TV and telephone pack were extra) when I came off and took this case.