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Originally Posted by cephes
eeeek..oh and Hi all 
I am thinking of returning to VM as I can only get 5meg on my adsl due to the line quality, even though I am within 1 mile of my exchange and can get adsl+ but thats another story.
As I have said I am thinking of returning to VM, have been thinking about it for some time since they offered the 50meg service in my area of Winnersh Triangle.
After reading this story, is this a good idea? Anyone else in the same area as me willing to share experiences?
Good luck Dex, but if I were you I would refuse to pay. |
I can share experience of the 20 Mbps service in Winnersh (off Robinhood Lane). The 20 & 50 Mbps customers share the same UBR on what is known as the "overlay network". I'm getting between 7 & 10 Mbps at this peak time on a single channel. You should do better on the three bonded channels you'll be provisioned with (IMO), but I doubt at peak times that you'll get 50 Mbps; maybe between 20 & 30 Mbps. I'm satisfied with the service.
The 10 Mbps users are on the legacy network and I've no idea how that performs.
The various area problems do not seem to afflict Winnersh, but peak time is peak time and you should bear this in mind.
Which BT exchange is 1 mile from you? I'm on Wokingham exchange and am lucky to get 1.5 Mbps on ADSL2+ (my backup service). Lest you worry, I'bve only had to kick in the ADSL service twice in the past year - once for a day once for an hour. VM reliability here over the years is excellent IMO. It needs to be because their after sales service on the telephone is Shcmitt.
HTH.