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Old 13-01-2012, 04:49   #615
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed

I should add regarding STM.

Some people said that they think people wont downgrade from 50 to 30 because they pay to have no STM. However in congested areas STM has little effect anyway as natural speeds drop below its threshold or are not much above it. eg. last night I got about 9mbit/sec, STM rate is 7.5mbit/sec. My neighbour on 100mbit a few doors away got just over 10mbit/sec. So what is he paying extra for?

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Just because it's technically possible to do 20Mbit upload doesn't mean it's financially doable

Virgin have just spend over a year getting the network to a point where it can support 10:1. I would expect making the whole network support a higher upload to download ratio is another big bit of work
Ben do you honestly think VMs network is capable of 10:1 for all areas that have it activated?
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