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Originally Posted by jamiefrost
No ISP provides a contention ratio of 1:1 for home broadband no business model would support it and it's not needed.
Loading web pages and looking at emails does not required a 1:1 line, with general web browsing your connection is idile most of the time. Once you loaded the page thats it.
JJ
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Point is though jamie people dont just use the net for looking at web pages and e-mail anymore hence the higher speed packages getting sold, if we did only do that the old 1 or 2mb line would be fine.
When people get a FREE upgrade (even though this is going to push the contention ratio down even more on isp's hardware) with vm it usaully comes at a cost to the customer hidden from view in a small print or a sneaky change to the t&c's that they never see.
My last FREE upgrade to 20mb came with FREE stm.
Tommorows FREE next tier or price reduction could come with a free application throttling, or higher stm, or phorm just to jiggle the profits of the company or save bandwith.