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Originally Posted by martyh
i don't understand the fuss about upstream speeds what people tend to forget imo is that vm and all other providers are chiefly concerned with supplying to general household users only a very small number of those wish to upoad vast amounts of data ,if you want commercial speeds get a commercial connection and quit whining
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So how many general household users have any interest in 50Mbit?
Precisely. I don't understand all the fuss about it to be honest and consider it all about the PR.
Incidentally BT seem to think people care given they have a 10Mbit upstream option on their new product. Maybe they do, maybe they don't but at least they have the option if they do care to pay more and have it.
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Originally Posted by Sirius
I don't use torrents (far to insecure) i prefer newsgroups or ftp. So speeds like this on a Saturday night prove to me they have it right. Yes upload increase might seem nice but i feel they will introduce speed controls on torrents and the like before they increase the upload dramaticaly.
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I agree with you on the torrents speed control. Given that with 100Mbit downstream a single customer can eat half an entire area's bandwidth it would make a lot of sense to introduce controls on newsgroups as well.
Last time a tier was released that allowed a single customer to nosh half an area's bandwidth, 20Mbit out of an available 38Mbit, it came with STM.
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Originally Posted by General Maximus
Virgin haven't even finished doing the upgrades they need to do to get 50mbit running properly and they are already flouting 100mbit. I am normally happy to give praise where praise is due but in this case it is winding me up. I would rather have a solid 50/10 line than whatever stupid ratio they are going to come up with for 100mbit (100/5?).
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I think we knew how this thread would go. Usual mix of 'I agree' and 'I'm alright Jack'.
It was well known VM would start on this project this year, BT will start getting 40Mbit available to a significant number of people with potential to go up to 60 so something needed to be done to keep the speed advantage downstream anyway.