For all those on about bad ratios with VM...

[Druchii]

See link here:

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/res...55446&v=982656

That's the JANET "LAN" that education centres get, that's our link, and recently i'm told that's not even shaped (Faulty hardware...)

[Zee]

My college gets JANET also, speeds are really speed, at max you get no faster then 8Mbps - so bad for an LAN, the upload is fine though

[popper]

it would seem theres something wrong there though for a JANET upload connection,
seems your JANET is the UK's werst ratio if its not a fault .....

still, their not a consumer broadband provider, so it still looks like VM are going to be (or already are) the holders of 'the UK's werst ratio' consumer broadband providers award (unless a reader knows different?).

your JANET connection:
Download Speed: 40219 kbps (5027.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 134 kbps (16.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

my (ex-C&W south manchester) 10mbit VM connection:
Download Speed: 8580 kbps (1072.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 439 kbps (54.9 KB/sec transfer rate)