Reliability?

nabalamma · 06-08-2007, 11:00

Is 2mb broadband reliable on VM?

TheNorm · 06-08-2007, 11:02

Yes.

06-08-2007, 11:49

It seems the lower tiers are but my 10mb connection has always been rock solid

TheNorm · 06-08-2007, 12:20

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Originally Posted by darthlinux

It seems the lower tiers are but my 10mb connection has always been rock solid

Eh? Does "rock solid" mean reliable, or very slow to move?

Stuart · 06-08-2007, 12:38

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Originally Posted by TheNorm

Eh? Does "rock solid" mean reliable, or very slow to move?

"My connection is always rock solid. It stays at 10Kps constantly.."

BTW, I don't have a VM broadband connection, but when I did connect through my STB. it wavered between 5MBps and 7MBps (which, in fairness, was the maximum the STB could achieve).

@ the original poster, I have found that whether VM is reliable or not seems to depend on your area.

AbyssUnderground · 06-08-2007, 13:28

Our connection from NTL/VM has always been rock solid (very reliable) with at least a 99% uptime a year. Speeds are 95% reliable, at least for me.

Ive been on it since 512Kbps, 750Kbps, 2Mbps and now 4Mbps. Always reliable in my mind and its essential to me since I run a server with very popular websites on it.

06-08-2007, 14:23

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Originally Posted by TheNorm

Eh? Does "rock solid" mean reliable, or very slow to move?

I will let you take a wild guess

what? · 06-08-2007, 15:13

yeah, on 2mb at the moment and have been for a fair few year from vm and not once has my connection been down or below speeds when i have tested it.

always been bang on.

my conn dropped once, rebooted the modem and i was on

but think it really is just luck as there are some ppl who do have probs but for the majority id say it is fine

Halcyon · 06-08-2007, 15:18

Yes, 2mb is quite good.
But ofcourse it depends where you are, how many people in your area, etc.

TheNorm · 06-08-2007, 15:56

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Originally Posted by darthlinux

I will let you take a wild guess

I was trying to make sense of this post:

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Originally Posted by darthlinux

It seems the lower tiers are but my 10mb connection has always been rock solid

You seem to be saying the lower tiers are unreliable, but the people who actually have 2 meg (as asked in the opening post) say otherwise.

dave6x · 06-08-2007, 16:13

I have to agree with Halcyon, from reading these forums, it seems to depend on where you are.

My experience in Andover, Hants, is that from when I joined about 4 years ago on 600Kb/s, then 1Mb, 1.5Mb, 3Mb, 10Mb, down to 2Mb when kids left home, now today I've got a retention deal on 4Mb, I get good speeds and excellent uptime probably a total of 2 days downtime in 4 years. Download speeds on 2Mb from newsgroups were always 234-240KB/s. Just done a speed check on Dan Elwell's test after the changeover to 4Mb and I'm getting 3.7Mb.