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Ignitionnet · 25-11-2011, 14:39

Just to let those interested know VM are currently slightly upgrading the 100Mb service, this is so that you can reach 100Mb speeds after overheads on the connection.

At the moment the service is capped to 102.4Mb, leaving people reaching about 98Mb best case, due to new regulations coming in next year 10% of customers must be able to reach the appropriate throughput for a service to be advertised at that speed.

VM evidently didn't fancy selling 100Mb as 98Mb so they're increasing the downstream cap from 102.4Mb/s to 110Mb/s giving people about 105Mb/s.

It's quite common among cable companies to do this, it's called adding 'fluff'. A number of operators cap around 10% higher than the provisioned rate, VM are joining them.

Probably safe to assume 10Mb and 20Mb will receive caps of 11Mb and 22Mb, 30Mb is already capped at 33Mb, 50Mb is already capped at 53Mb and is receiving a different upgrade.

25-11-2011, 14:39	#1
Ignitionnet Inactive Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire Age: 47 Posts: 13,995	Small Download Speed Upgrade Just to let those interested know VM are currently slightly upgrading the 100Mb service, this is so that you can reach 100Mb speeds after overheads on the connection. At the moment the service is capped to 102.4Mb, leaving people reaching about 98Mb best case, due to new regulations coming in next year 10% of customers must be able to reach the appropriate throughput for a service to be advertised at that speed. VM evidently didn't fancy selling 100Mb as 98Mb so they're increasing the downstream cap from 102.4Mb/s to 110Mb/s giving people about 105Mb/s. It's quite common among cable companies to do this, it's called adding 'fluff'. A number of operators cap around 10% higher than the provisioned rate, VM are joining them. Probably safe to assume 10Mb and 20Mb will receive caps of 11Mb and 22Mb, 30Mb is already capped at 33Mb, 50Mb is already capped at 53Mb and is receiving a different upgrade.