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Originally Posted by Kushan
I can definitely understand why you'd take the 48/8 over what may end up as 84/2, if upload speeds are important to you. Though when the 120meg upgrade finally hits you, that then turns into 100/4, half the upload but twice the download. It's easy to see why people go for Virgin, particularly if upload speeds aren't an issue for them.
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Yes, indeed, mass market companies cater towards the mass market consumer.
I on the other hand, if I'm paying by the hour for Amazon compute capacity, and the limiting factor on my compute throughput is the upload speed on my home (controller) machine, then having twice as much upload means getting twice as much bang for my buck out of my compute server(s).
Obviously, not your average joe user scenario...
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Originally Posted by General Maximus
although you are looking at it from an 84/2 stm'd point of view, I can look at it purely as 120/12 or 48/8 and I would rather have the former.
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Yes I'm also looking at it from the point of view that my area will likely be the last in the country to get 120/12, seeing as it was near enough last for 100/5 and 50/5, 100/10 never came.
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Originally Posted by General Maximus
sweet, something I'll remember for the future because that was one thing which was definitely putting me off. I don't like isp supplied routers whether they been shubs or otherwise
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BT FTTC has never forced you to use their supplied modem *or* router. Though if you wanted support on either device you'd be expected to put it back.
No need to ever buy your own modem though, at least not yet. They've always supplied a standalone, dedicated modem up until now.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
So to me VM wasnt good enough, but everyone has their own requirements of their connection and different areas perform differently.
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To me STM just means my QoS is a bitch to configure correctly and I cannot be bothered. Again, I'll prefer a consistent and reliable slower speed over a rapidly fluctuating and undependable "burstable" 100Mb connection.
Remember during my 20 months with BT Infinity my speed only ever dropped below half of maximum on 3 days out of 600.
On VM my speed was less than half what it should have been 7 months out of each and every year.