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Originally Posted by Ernie_C
Are you a network engineer that fully understands what effect upgrading all current 2Mb users to 10Mb will have on the performance of any particular UBR?
Making all of these users go faster (without them increasing their usage) may actually make the performance better.
It was different when they upgraded the 10Mb XL customers to 20Mb because a large proportion of XL users were likely to be heavy users and only limited in their use by the speed of the connection.
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Are you a network engineer who fully understands what effect upgrading all current 2Mb users to 10Mb will have on the performance of any particular UBR? (Right back atcha !)
From my point of view, being connected to a UBR which runs at a usage on the high 90% at the moment, what actual good will come from increasing 2Mb customers to five times their current speed?
At the moment I can get speeds of around 1.2Mb during some evenings on my 10Mb connection, surely basics maths would indicate that 20 x 2Mb users could theoretically use 40Mb/s compared to 20 x 10Mb users who could theoretically use 200Mb/s ?
And as VM have stated on several occasions, the majority of their users are on the 2Mb package (68%), which means they will remove a small percentage of 20Mb (11%) users from my UBR (onto the 50Mb 10k's) and uplift the 68% of their customers from 2Mb to 10Mb.
So, lets look at this as though there are 100 people to a UBR card: They will remove 11 x 20Mb users and add 68 10Mb users...
Hmmmmm... Yeah, I see where you're coming from, the performance and load on my UBR is bound to improve....
