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Ignitionnet · 23-04-2011, 19:04

By unexpected I'm referring to above the norm. VM may or may not know about student areas, however like every other cable company in the world they don't throw bandwidth at the areas endlessly.

You talk about getting students to sign up, if there are too many signups the area is oversubscribed. If VM are appropriately segmenting the network and it's just sheer weight of traffic there's no point at all in throwing tens of thousands of pounds at the areas just to see the new bandwidth consumed.

Although I think this is a conversation that's been had before.

23-04-2011, 19:04	#27
Ignitionnet Inactive Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire Age: 47 Posts: 13,995	Re: Virgin Media Q1 2011 Results... By unexpected I'm referring to above the norm. VM may or may not know about student areas, however like every other cable company in the world they don't throw bandwidth at the areas endlessly. You talk about getting students to sign up, if there are too many signups the area is oversubscribed. If VM are appropriately segmenting the network and it's just sheer weight of traffic there's no point at all in throwing tens of thousands of pounds at the areas just to see the new bandwidth consumed. Although I think this is a conversation that's been had before.