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Originally Posted by AbyssUnderground
For me, if I got 50Mbps, it would be so I could backup my France based server quicker. 800GB takes a while on 10Mbps you know! Normally backups don't exceed a few GB a day (incremental) but if something happens to my backups, I'd have to get the whole lot again
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Mmm 800GB.
You know even on 50Mbit it would take you a
month and a half to upload that back onto the server
I totally get the impatience thing I just can't bring myself to justify paying the extra even though it's not a huge amount of money to me based on that. There's also the minor 'activist' thing in me. Yes I can afford it but no I will not pay it. To do so justifies VM's flow of bovine excreta regarding the product and their total lack of regard for anything beyond PR in the deployment of it.
50Mbit was nothing to do with wanting to offer uber broadband, the equipment was for the most part being deployed anyway for capacity relief, as the old uBRs have been end of life'd by Cisco and are power / space inefficient. That you could pop a line card in one end and a new modem the other and offer 50Mbit is purely a bonus so VM claiming all this stuff about investment in ultra fast broadband is complete and utter bovine excreta. If they gave a crap about that there would have been some effort on the upstream side of things, whereas there has been absolutely none. Taking an upstream from my area to redeploy with the 50M and causing a touch of upstream congestion doing it extracts the urine and is a pretty clear admission that this area's return path sucks. If they gave a crap they'd have done what Comcast did and spend some cash on the local networks as they were deploying DOCSIS 3 but in normal VM fashion they do nothing until absolutely necessary or PR expedient so just pretending all is fine works.
Quite how they expect to offer enhanced upstream in areas like this one when they don't appear able to offer more than 4 of the most basic ones makes me wonder and hopefully I'll be proven wrong, as a few 50Mbit customers on 1.75Mbit upstream sharing with a few 20M customers on 0.768M up don't fit too well into a 4.4M usable channel.
Ooops I descended into firm rant territory there, sorry!
