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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
ignition I am starting to see signs that people prefer to have a minimal sustainable level of service rather then a hyped up max speeds that plummets to below what they had previously, now I know in the business of residental broadband speeds will go down during peak time that is to be expected. But I think if the customers max is 25% of the total max that is shared between a couple of hundred people then their is going to be the same problems that we have now with 10meg. 100megabit on fibre eg. isnt linked to a 400mbit backhual it would probably be at least 1 gigabit so 10% of max making it take longer to hit saturation. In japan I believe its sort of like sweden they get good speeds within their own isp so little local saturation but the international peering is crappy so actual internet traffic is poor. Japan cant really do much about that tho it is their location in the world they will suffer distance related problems.
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exactly i have no problems with them saying its UPTO a certian speed all im suggesting is they have a minimum Speed that you should be able to reach regardless of how congested the network is, Its all very well saying you have 100mbit but it would suck if someone down the road was able to hog all the bandwith and everyone else get stuck on sub dialup speeds...
As speeds get higher and congestion on the network gets worse things are only going to get worse unless they set a minimum threshold where anything below that speed is deemed unacceptable.
I know sometimes a slow transfer isn't down to ntl but the speed of whatever it is you are connecting to so i don't expect miricles what I do expect is a standard of service to be kept.
Actually I'm one of the more lucky ones at the moment the 2mbit around here its quite steady but i can see things changing if we have another round of speed increases on the lower teirs.