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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
I'd remind that only a proportion of BT Infinity or FTTC customers get the 20 meg upstream. I get less than 10 meg and at least 50% of FTTC customers (my estimate) are situated at or beyond the point where their u[stream is lower than VM's 120/12.
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Less is lost on the upstream on FTTC, i.e. more people are likely to get 20mbit upstream than 80mbit downstream
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Originally Posted by kwikbreaks
I've never seen a 10:1 promise in any VM material - just supposition from customers.
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The original announcement from mark wilkin on the VM forum said "upload speeds will be 10% of download speeds"
also, the latest I can find regarding 3 and 6mbit upload speeds are in these to messages from mark wilkin
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...ht/true#M25129
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Originally Posted by kwikbreaks
Looks like they have quietly forgotten it to me. VM sell based on headline downstream speeds. It's all they have that they can show to be better than FTTC and then only for the higher tiers until the next round of downstream increases. Most of the buyers probably don't consider upstream so VM don't need to bust a gut.
New customer price point for 60 + phone is pretty much equal to 76/19 FTTC + phone
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Originally Posted by Kushan
That's exactly it. They haven't forgot it, they've just put it on a much lower priority because its marketing value isn't the same as headline download speeds.
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Id say this ^
Looks like they still have plans to return to a 10:1 ratio, but the downstream upgrades are taking priority. Although having seen quite a few posts about QAM64 upstreams, it does look like they are working hard at the upstream (allbeit very hush hush)
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Originally Posted by Kabaal
Not the case, you can set your upload speed to 0KB/s on your torrent client and still get the full 126mb/s download. A lot of trackers have rules that you must seed back to a 1:1 ratio but the speed you do it at doesn't matter, it could take an hour or a year to seed back as long as it hits 1:1. Obviously it's easier to do at a fast speed but upload speed isn't a technical requirement or a rule.
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Most trackers use the tit-for-tat alogirthm to stop you doing that