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Originally Posted by pip08456
From a practical point of view, then considering VM are expected to be upgrading the system for 100Mb then it should be able to handle the 70,000ish present 50Mb users (nationwide) downloading what they want when they want.
IMO if congestion is happening with the 50Mb service then VM need to get their contention ratios sorted out.
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some of us have been saying this for months, sort out the contention ratios before making new higher demand products, but ignition will be here to tell me its only a small minority of the network in trouble.
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Originally Posted by kwikbreaks
That uses virtually nothing mate - at least neither LogMeIn nor VNC do.
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IMO it's not unreasonable to restrict most downloads to overnight. In the days when I was with Entanet they used to show the loadings on their centrals and once you got past midnight there was shedloads of bandwidth available - enough for more Linux distros than anyone could ever install 
PusNet have graphs of their total traffic on http://www.plus.net/support/network_...ge.shtml#usage and that shows plenty of capacity overnight too. I imagine it is th sam with every ISP.
Where the problem really lies is in the VM marketing - they say download what you like in all the adverts along with fastest broadband in the land but the capacity installed doesn't allow that to be true hence the letters which are getting right up peoples noses and rightly so because the AUP is rather hidden away in the small print and the expectations of 50Mbps customers is that there are no restrictions. |
its not just that, but with isps like plusnet and entanet everyone was in the same boat, you could do things like jump to a better central. On VM if you on a bad postcode its not even possible to get seperated from others in your area.
Regarding remote desktop it may not use much bandwidth but my connection is certianly struggling to handle it, I should have hosted it over ukonline but was worried about the BT line going down everytime someone farts. Since my initial RD connection my latency graph has gone crazy high, stays high even when logged out of RD. Either my pc still sends the RD data out when not connected or something odd going on. At the moment my home pc gets D on pingtest.net and under 10mbit on speedtest.net, by at the moment I mean all times I have tried it the last few days so not just now the weekend.
The rules are soon to change tho on marketing, the ASA and ofcom have recently done a U turn.