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Chrysalis · 20-04-2011, 15:52

to be honest even in a congested area it still is nothing like as bad as the adsl situation.

Even in jan this year when my port was very badly overloaded at dusk hours I was able to get over 70-80% of my advertised speed. Whilst on adsl if you on a long line forget it, you wont 'ever' get high speeds.

So the facts are every cable customer syncs at advertised speed (or higher). A majority of cable customers achieve close to those speeds even during peak, the ones who dont still can get close to full speeds during the quitest hours. I am not saying thats an acceptable service if in that situation but its worth pointing out its a very different situation to what the adsl providers are doing. On adsl2+ services only 3% get close to advertised speed, thats a horrific figure.

20-04-2011, 15:52	#26
Chrysalis Inactive Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 12,047	Re: Sky sets its lawyers on VM over internet ad campaign to be honest even in a congested area it still is nothing like as bad as the adsl situation. Even in jan this year when my port was very badly overloaded at dusk hours I was able to get over 70-80% of my advertised speed. Whilst on adsl if you on a long line forget it, you wont 'ever' get high speeds. So the facts are every cable customer syncs at advertised speed (or higher). A majority of cable customers achieve close to those speeds even during peak, the ones who dont still can get close to full speeds during the quitest hours. I am not saying thats an acceptable service if in that situation but its worth pointing out its a very different situation to what the adsl providers are doing. On adsl2+ services only 3% get close to advertised speed, thats a horrific figure.