New trial Wigan Area

dammydam · 10-04-2008, 15:13

Just rang up and had this confirmed to me. The new trial is between 11am-9pm. i didn't stay on the phone long enough to find out the allowed usage so i can't give you any info on that

This is probably the straw that broke the camels back, am not paying Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£18 a month for 2 meg under these conditions.

david

frogstamper · 10-04-2008, 15:33

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Originally Posted by dammydam

Just rang up and had this confirmed to me. The new trial is between 11am-9pm. i didn't stay on the phone long enough to find out the allowed usage so i can't give you any info on that

This is probably the straw that broke the camels back, am not paying Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£18 a month for 2 meg under these conditions.

david

Is this just in the Wigan area? and how long is this "trial" going on for.

dammydam · 10-04-2008, 15:53

It normally includes the Preston/Liverpool/Wigan area going off previous Trials. Like i said i didn't stay on the phone to hear the rest ( not paying 25p a min). Am sure other users will post feedback from other network areas

David

10-04-2008, 16:02

Wow. That stinks.

Noggo · 10-04-2008, 16:04

I'm guessing the trail is for new STM hours, if it is thats pants.

frogstamper · 10-04-2008, 16:11

How the hell can they justify almost half the day, this is ridiculous, the word "unlimited" should come with certain caveats in my opinion. As I have said on other threads if the network is this overloaded that they need to bring in such draconian limits they will have to drop "unlimited" and bring in a pay as you go option, its not unreasonable for people to get the speeds they pay for.

dammydam · 10-04-2008, 16:20

Is there any reason why the network would be saturated at 11am in the morning? i can get my head round 4pm when all the school finish, but as for 11am i've no clue

Yeah , i think the advertisments should be revised. At the moment am simply on 1meg

10-04-2008, 17:18

Mods - any chance of a title change to something more appropriate (re STM times)?
I think this is possibly a bit of a hot potato!

frogstamper · 10-04-2008, 17:38

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Originally Posted by kryogenik

Mods - any chance of a title change to something more appropriate (re STM times)?
I think this is possibly a bit of a hot potato!

Agreed!

raefil · 10-04-2008, 17:45

just done 4 different speed tests on my 20 meg connection and all came up with 1.6kpbs

Not impressed.

Im in Preston area

ceedee · 10-04-2008, 18:33

I'm very curious to hear that details of an STM trial are being announced -- they're supposed to be kept (very) secret so that the results are completely unbiased.

Apparently the one thing that you can be sure of is that if you are being STM'd your *upload* will be limited to 128kbps for M (2Mb) and L (4Mb) connections and 192kbps for XL (20Mb) -- if you're uploading any more than that then you are not currently being STM'd.

Sirius · 10-04-2008, 22:07

Every time i read something about VirginMedia over the last few months it just makes me sad that a once good ISP have gone to the dogs.

shawty · 10-04-2008, 22:11

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Originally Posted by dammydam

Is there any reason why the network would be saturated at 11am in the morning? i can get my head round 4pm when all the school finish, but as for 11am i've no clue

Yeah , i think the advertisments should be revised. At the moment am simply on 1meg

Because everyone downloading during the peak hours, started downloading at the off peak hours, I guess anyway.

Caster · 10-04-2008, 22:33

Remember when we had fast internet access? That was great.

10-04-2008, 22:38

Wrong, the new trial hours are 1pm-10pm.

Also a seperate trial running elsewhere (unknown as to where?) where they initiate a second STM from midnight-7am (upload stm)