Quote:
Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Joe bloggs doesnt consider sky broadband crap, only techies like yourself who have an addiction to high access speeds and the ability to pretend VM doesnt have congestion issues.
Indeed my sister was on 50mb VM, and got sick of her netflix buffering every night, and now has moved to "up to" 36meg sky bb and she is happy netflix works again. They just care about "things working".
Now you talking as if your 60-70mbit synced pulse8 line is some kind of junk  and when you get VM it will be the second coming. But what will this 200mb VM connection do for your working from home that the pulse8 doesnt? |
I think you're confusing Joe Bloggs with people like us, not to mention that I said 'the competition' not VM.
BT offer 52Mb as the base product now. Plusnet charge as much for 76Mb as Sky do for 38Mb. Joe Bloggs may see the high numbers VM offer and think 'Ooooh shiny', they aren't likely to know that in all honestly 38Mb will be fine for them for right now - why do you think VM and even BT use speeds as a selling point?
Joe Bloggs isn't going to have much idea of what contention or congestion are. They care about the shiny numbers and the price.
This ignoring that the vast majority of Sky Broadband customers are still on their old LLU equipment on ADSL which isn't surprising given they quite literally give it away for the entire length of contracts. I didn't specify the package.
You seem awfully sensitive about criticism of your ISP. Relax.
As far as what the VM service will allow me to do when it arrives goes, as one example download 10GB+ crash files, then upload parts of the archives to our data centre in San Jose for review by our development team more rapidly. The SLAs on our support can be strict and our customers very demanding. A few minutes not spent waiting for downloads and uploads are minutes that can be spent analysing the data.
Hope that helps.