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Originally Posted by Horace
Upload plus is only available up to 2km from the exchange.
So in effect very few people get close to the advertised speeds ergo they end up with much less contention problems.
My max download speed on Be* would be around 5-6 Mb assuming my line quality was fine and I don't live out in the sticks.
Everyone on cable is capable of getting maximum upload and download speeds which makes contention a much bigger issue.
When you also factor in the price of getting a phone line you end up paying the same for a much slower service with Be* if you take their top package.
Upload has always been a rare commodity on cable and will be for the foreseeable.
If you desperately need much higher upload then a commercial package, probably costing around £600-£1000 a month would be your only real alternative.
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well, we are talking cable here and upload rates in this instance but even then your best Be* upload will provide even you with a far better real upload rate irespective of your lower download rate as stated.
a far better ratio and rate even than the currently proposed new 1.5Mbit upload rate of the 50Mbit VM package infact.
if they dont rethink the prime VM package, and at the very least better Be*'s best, by ay least a good 1Mbit+, thats at least 3.5Mbit upload if i remember Be*'s best at 2.5Mbit currently?, will just continue to profit at VMs expense.
as for the cable upload and it being "rare", its only rare due to the way cable has receaved competition protection, (we should open it up to allow 3rd party STB's and existing DOCSIS1.1/2.0 CM PCi/USB cards) and the way the cable sales teams have sold it for max short term profits, instead of long term product and consumer growth.
its perfectly possible to stop overselling the UBRs upgrade the cards and better re-seg the kit at any time,they chose not to.
the newest linecards and UBR kit they plug into etc, as i posted about on the older 50Mbit thread linked above, are the best price they have ever been , they provide far more ports today (compared to even just 2 years ago)and are perfectly capable of providing far better upload rates on the old Euro-Docsis1.1 per customer.
sure not everyone needs or more the case
wants faster uploads, but for those that do , they are perfectly willing to pay,just as there are still more people that will pay for more than one cable modem per account ...
however..., VM refuse to provide it even today, after spending all that money on upgrading and migrating everyone to their new wizbang billing system for the future, VM refuse to provide these simple things we want to pay for, and so they cant profit from it, and we end users cant get it.
thats the choice the sales teams and executives have made, and thats why cable is in such a mess with its
werst ratio in the UK market place for years now, a follower of the best *DSL UK upload packages, instead of a leader on many levels, were it
could have been far in advance of *DSL in the upload rates.....and greater customer base and profits, their choice to throw away that massive advantage, not ours.
your not keeping up with the latest trends, there are several commercial packages today that are using 1to1 U/D ratio in the Wimax and other microwave sectors (Wireless 1GigE to name but one) for
far less than your assumed 1990's
£600-£1000 a month priced packages.