Well I have had cable since the late 90's with Nynex. When the NTL/VM Broadband started it was good an dhas always been faster than anything else.
Right now though I think speeds are getting to a point where faster doesn't matter anymore but congestion and latency does.
We have a household of six including three teenagers and one nearly teenager, latency = bad gaming = grief for parents.
The last six months with VM have been truly awfull, cataclysmically bad with peak time, which I mean anything from 15:00 to 23:30 , service on my 152Mb connection chugging along at between 2 and 10 Mb. its so slow at times it might as well not be there.
I don't want 200Mb, I just want a fast reliable connection. After constant loyalty to the cable fold I am very close to changing to BT as we can get Infinity 2 and I am confident a stable 75Mb connection will suit our needs better than the peaky unreliable service I have today.
Working from home today and now, when there is no one else around, the connection bumbles along at between 145Mb and 160Mb. Just wish it was 100Mb 24/7
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...0-01-2016.html