Thread: 30M Finally had enough of VM BS...........
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Old 06-09-2012, 09:16   #86
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Re: Finally had enough of VM BS...........
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Originally Posted by carlwaring View Post
Ah by "official" you mean VM's figures - I thought you meant some independent testing.

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Originally Posted by carlwaring View Post
Well at least you found some negative spin to put on it. Well done!
Actually it wasn't negative - I'd assumed that more than 66% would be getting somewhere close to their headline speeds. In fact 66% was a number chosen by VM to calculate their averages so is an arbitrary number. Measuring over 24hours makes the speeds pretty meaningless too though as it's what you can get at peak times that counts because by definition that's when most people want to use the service. Most really wouldn't care if they could get a Gbps at 3:00am if their peak time speeds were poor.

The devil is in the detail of course - how close is close? I'd accept that within 10% is close and I suspect more than 66% get that close even at peak. Where the problem lies imo is that the skinny pipes mean that when it unravels it unravels big time and VM seem to take an age to fix it.
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