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Old 23-05-2016, 12:49   #55
Kushan
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Re: Virgin Media UK Confirms Trial of Faster Broadband Upload Speeds

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet View Post
Not getting full speed 24x7 is not a fault, Kushan. Some visible contention at peak times is normal.
I've not worded it brilliantly, what I mean is they aim to give you your full speed 24/7 and don't deliberately limit it, as the agent apparently claimed. You are right to say that congestion will happen at peak times occasionally, but there is a point when it's too much congestion and gets raised as an issue to be fixed (however long that takes), which I class as a "fault" because it's a fault ticket, but perhaps fault isn't the correct term.

Either way, if congestion is getting so bad it's impacting your service (i.e. you're struggling to stream stuff or play a game), then yeah Virgin needs to sort it. If your 200mbit is only getting 180Mbit at 8pm, well suck it up.
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