I'm on XL [20mb] & getting 2mb UP? - Page 7

|Kippa| · 18-03-2010, 09:47

If it were chargeable and if were quite a bit more I'd at least expect 10mbit if the cost was significantly higher. I don't mind paying a reasonable extra ammount for a faster upload rate, so long as it is reasonable.

Ignitionnet · 18-03-2010, 09:49

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Originally Posted by |Kippa|

If it were chargeable and if were quite a bit more I'd at least expect 10mbit if the cost was significantly higher. I don't mind paying a reasonable extra ammount for a faster upload rate, so long as it is reasonable.

A tripling in speed isn't reasonable?

We're probably talking around a fiver a month for upgrade from 1.75 - 5Mbit. Given the low point it's starting from it's not too bad and worth it if it stops P2P kiddies smashing the network up seeding themselves stupid and Virgin throttling people to try and stop it.

|Kippa| · 18-03-2010, 10:32

I would say that £5 a month extra for 5mbit is reasonable. One thing that would bother me though is if they put heavy restrictions on it. Don't get me wrong I am not saying that I would hammer the 5mbit 24/7, I would just like to upload to my website server at 5mbit then suddenly get shaped down to 0.5mbit or something like that.

I don't mind some form of restrictions if they do bring out 5mbit I just hope they are not too draconian.

Ignitionnet · 18-03-2010, 10:53

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Originally Posted by |Kippa|

I would say that £5 a month extra for 5mbit is reasonable. One thing that would bother me though is if they put heavy restrictions on it. Don't get me wrong I am not saying that I would hammer the 5mbit 24/7, I would just like to upload to my website server at 5mbit then suddenly get shaped down to 0.5mbit or something like that.

I don't mind some form of restrictions if they do bring out 5mbit I just hope they are not too draconian.

Charging extra for it would hopefully reduce the likelihood of restrictions and would deter some people

kendo1 · 18-03-2010, 12:45

ooo sometime in this last week my 20mb upload has gone up to about 2mb. In Coventry BTW. Thinking about upgrading to 50mb, not sure now though

jrhnewark · 03-04-2010, 20:04

I'm all for them charging extra for better upstream. 90% of customers wouldn't show much interest as they're probably not aware that connections are asymetrical, but that leaves quite a large proportion who like to chuck bits of data upstream and realise how slow that can be.

I'd be very happy if they'd let me have 10Mbps down with 1Mbps up and then an extra, say, fiver for 2Mbps.

(I should also add that I'm not a P2P monkey any more - used to be, but I haven't got time any more! What I do have is a web and mail server at home and it'd be nice to grab files from home a little more speedily, and also have a fair broadband speed for surfing while connected to my VPN.)