Cable Forum - View Single Post - Legal action taken against Virgin Media throttling practices

cook1984 · 13-04-2009, 19:59

I think some people are lucky and have relatively new phone lines.

Part of mine should be new, as BT replaced it when trying to fix a fault that after six months they tracked down to a leaking roof at the exchange.

Anyway, I am 2km from the exchange and got about 7mb down and 500k up, except that there was occasional packet loss and re-syncs. Eventually Be told me to upgrade the modem's firmware, which I did and it bricked the modem, so that was that.

The point is that, for me and many people like me who are not lucky enough to have a usable line, cable is the only option. We have to pay whatever VM demand, or accept a slow and poor quality connection.

When one company has a monopoly that cannot easily be broken, the government should regulate it strongly. They should also do everything they can to provide alternatives for an important utility.

13-04-2009, 19:59	#413
cook1984 Inactive Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 556	Re: Legal action taken against Virgin Media throttling practices I think some people are lucky and have relatively new phone lines. Part of mine should be new, as BT replaced it when trying to fix a fault that after six months they tracked down to a leaking roof at the exchange. Anyway, I am 2km from the exchange and got about 7mb down and 500k up, except that there was occasional packet loss and re-syncs. Eventually Be told me to upgrade the modem's firmware, which I did and it bricked the modem, so that was that. The point is that, for me and many people like me who are not lucky enough to have a usable line, cable is the only option. We have to pay whatever VM demand, or accept a slow and poor quality connection. When one company has a monopoly that cannot easily be broken, the government should regulate it strongly. They should also do everything they can to provide alternatives for an important utility.