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Originally Posted by bomber_g
This is wrong
the network is constantly being upgraded. Granted you might be in an area that is not due to be done until next week or even next year, but hey that's how these things work.
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This may not be universally true, but it's what I was told by several people at the beginning. People on the newsgroups said I had pretty much no hope of them doing anything about it, after nine months of painful personal experience that has been shown to be true. As I've mentioned, my area has supposedly been upgraded already, more than once since my initial complaint. Whether or not they've really done that, I've experienced no appreciable improvement.
That said, I'm lucky to live in a city like this, where the POTS exchanges are close enough together that you're rarely over 1km from an exchange and will next to never have a line longer than 3km.
As for the motorway effect... I don't buy it. O2/Be are cheaper, and with almost everyone synching at >10 meg around here, they're probably having to provide more bandwidth per person than VM are. Yet they've managed to keep on top of capacity and contention perfectly well since the exchange first went live three or four years ago - and that's without any traffic management or download caps.