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Turkey Machine · 21-11-2010, 18:16

Cable is marketed as able to deliver the advertised speed, yet Virgin can and do get away with the "up to" clause that is mandatory with ADSL, which is wrong quite frankly. Their "national" product using BT's network is contended and traffic managed beyond usability and only able to deliver "up to 24Mbit", although in reality you'll hit 23Mbit with overheads.

100Mbit? I fully expect people to bitch and moan about it when using with gear on 100Mbit-limited ethernet cards as you'll only get 95Mbit or so. Minimum equipment should be enforced, and I think oversubscription is a given with the uptake. It will be interesting to see them deliver 10Mbit on the upstream, but this is not anywhere near the 4:1 down/up ratio that BT FTTC can deliver.

21-11-2010, 18:16	#17
Turkey Machine Inactive Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Norwich Age: 38 Services: Company LLU internet, soon-to-be company FTTC internet at 56Mb/20Mb! Posts: 1,895	Re: Virgin Media's campaign: stopthebroadbandcon.org Cable is marketed as able to deliver the advertised speed, yet Virgin can and do get away with the "up to" clause that is mandatory with ADSL, which is wrong quite frankly. Their "national" product using BT's network is contended and traffic managed beyond usability and only able to deliver "up to 24Mbit", although in reality you'll hit 23Mbit with overheads. 100Mbit? I fully expect people to bitch and moan about it when using with gear on 100Mbit-limited ethernet cards as you'll only get 95Mbit or so. Minimum equipment should be enforced, and I think oversubscription is a given with the uptake. It will be interesting to see them deliver 10Mbit on the upstream, but this is not anywhere near the 4:1 down/up ratio that BT FTTC can deliver.