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Old 24-02-2009, 14:06   #31
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Re: Virgin Media Boosts Millions of Broadband Connections

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Apparently most folk on 2MB are supposedly only emailing and browsing so they aren't supposed to be much worried or bothered by the STM.
On 2MB & its does what I want ( see above it me alright) Now for a silly question - what is STM ?
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On 2MB & its does what I want ( see above it me alright) Now for a silly question - what is STM ?

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Old 24-02-2009, 14:33   #33
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Re: Virgin Media Boosts Millions of Broadband Connections

I'm not one to crow but would BenMcr care to comment on his posts 35, 39 and 42 on this closed thread, regarding the 2-10Mb upgrade back in November?:
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...as-page-3.html,
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Re: Virgin Media Boosts Millions of Broadband Connections

Hopefully it's not a case of them upgrading people they think wont even affect the networks performance just so they have 'bragging rights' over other ISP's. If thats true from BenMcr then UBR's could be hitting their limits all over the country....
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Re: Virgin Media Boosts Millions of Broadband Connections

Ok thank you - but what does STM stand for ?? Just want to add to my meagre knowlege.
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may I ask, seeing as the current 10mb users are paying quite alot of more money than the 2mb users, and suddenly 2mb get upgraded for free and they still pay the old price, will the current 10mb users see a reduction in their service charges?

if not, then I dont think it is fair.
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Ok thank you - but what does STM stand for ?? Just want to add to my meagre knowlege.
Subscriber traffic management

http://www.virgin.net/helpme/broadba...s_traffic.html

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...t/traffic.html

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may I ask, seeing as the current 10mb users are paying quite alot of more money than the 2mb users, and suddenly 2mb get upgraded for free and they still pay the old price, will the current 10mb users see a reduction in their service charges?

if not, then I dont think it is fair.
Noone knows 100% whats happening, chances are the STM limits will be different.
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Noone knows 100% whats happening, chances are the STM limits will be different.
No chance about it - they WILL be different
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Subscriber traffic management

http://www.virgin.net/helpme/broadba...s_traffic.html

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Noone knows 100% whats happening, chances are the STM limits will be different.
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No chance about it - they WILL be different
Fair enough, i didn't know for sure so didn't want to make people think it was a full gone conclusion.
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great news.
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Re: Virgin Media Boosts Millions of Broadband Connections

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If though they're getting rid of 2Mb, will that then be relabled as M-L-XL or wil they keep it L-XL-XXL ???
They aren't getting rid of the 2mb tier.

Customers will be able to stay on it or new customers can be put on 2meg. It is to be a budget 'no frills' service and will be labeled 'S'.

So we will have S-M(10 meg)-L-XL-XXL
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Re: Virgin Media Boosts Millions of Broadband Connections

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They aren't getting rid of the 2mb tier.

Customers will be able to stay on it or new customers can be put on 2meg. It is to be a budget 'no frills' service and will be labeled 'S'.

So we will have S-M(10 meg)-L-XL-XXL
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Virgin Media’s new fibre optic product portfolio now comprises ‘up to 10Mb’, ‘up to 20Mb’ and the recently launched ultrafast ‘up to 50Mb’ service.
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Yes because they will only advertise L/XL/XXL. Size S will be only avalaible if you ask for it. But it won't be worth going for
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Re: Virgin Media Boosts Millions of Broadband Connections

The new 10 mb will probably have 500 mb stm`s or something, then it goes down to 2mb

Honestly though, virgin need to step up and tell us whats going on with the old 10mb subscribers? They need to work out the new stm system for the two tiers before they upgrade, because it just wont be fair having two people on 10mb paying a diff price.
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