Thread: 50M Think Broadband Ping Monitor Results (POST YOURS)
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Old 10-03-2012, 15:27   #1075
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Re: Think Broadband Ping Monitor Results (POST YOURS)
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Originally Posted by Kymmy View Post
There though is a difference between adequate and perfect.. The superhub's performance is adequate for my usage and probably a good proportion of VM customers. I'm not though saying it is perfect and could probably be bettered but very few need perfection..
I'm not sure you're aware but a lot of (educated) people (and network engineers) believe latency is more important than bandwidth. Increased latency is why websites load slower on a VM 50mb connection than a BT 40mb, contrary to what you'd expect.

So for many people it's "adequate" for their needs (because it loads fast enough) but on the other hand they're being misled if they think it's faster than a 40mb connection from the competition. VM's excessive peddling of download speeds comes at the cost of latency and responsiveness. The latency problem, is something that some people claim the Superhub makes a lot worse - so it's just another example of the same thing.

Nobody's to my knowledge done a direct scientific comparison between the two, so your graphs, being as close as it gets, shows your 50mb being a lot worse than your 10mb. Even if you're happy with that, I don't think it's fair to berate the few who aren't. After all, if it literally takes 2-4 times as long to do most things on a 50mb connection, it's a bit of a ripoff.

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Do you honestly think I'm anal enough to worry about a bit more latency????
This is the kind of attitude that allows VM to continue getting away with ripping people off by peddling unneccessarily high speeds at the cost of actual performance.

Again, that latency, is why your 50mb is slower in actual use than my 30mb. I'm not saying you should care, but I know I would if that were the case. Hence why I disconnected my 50mb and went down to another provider's "slower" service. That latency, also means your 50mb probably isn't any faster than your 10mb for interactive use. Downloading large files is another matter.
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