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Originally Posted by General Maximus
of course it has, VM have been screwing customers with stm for years despite how vocal people have been about it. The whole press release crap about "we have listened to our customers bla bla bla" is rubbish. VM will only do something if it is in their interests to do it. If they can afford to erradicate downstream stm altogether then surely they can afford to chop upstream in half if they are determined to leave p2p shaping in effect.
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I agree with the general sentiment of what you're saying, but I disagree with this particular bit. Virgin have obviously been upgrading the network lately, ever since the speed doubling first started. We've still got congestion but it's definitely better than it was. However, I do believe that the upstream side of things are a different bag, if it really wasn't as bad as you're suggesting, you'd think they'd up speeds to 10:1 again, which they seem reluctant to do. However, there's lots of evidence to show that the upstream side is being upgraded as well so I think it really is only a matter of time. I wouldn't be surprised if they first brought back 10:1, then reduced STM marginally, then dropped it completely - just like they did with downstream.