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Author:  pcernie [ Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Virgin Media: Broadband crunch point is coming

http://www.techradar.com/news/networkin ... ing-698351

No sh1t...

Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:47 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Virgin Media: Broadband crunch point is coming

Quote:
James believes that what he calls a crunch point is quickly arriving, and that Virgin Media's cable network, rather than the DSL used by many of its competitors, is uniquely placed to give people speeds close to what is advertised.

Well I have the 20 Mbit service and yes it might give you that during the day and very early hours it grinds to a slow crawl during the hours 19.00 to 00.35, Then add in that they have traffic caps between 09.00 and 21.00 and you can see that you only really get a decent connection over night until 09.00. Though much of these problems could be resolved by installing FTTC, and lowering contention ratios even if it means a price hike.

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