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Originally Posted by pip08456
Now you've lost me. Surely in operation capacity wise ppl will use the extra U/L capacity otherwise what's the point in having it?
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Using it as per normal and going 'Wow upload upgrade must download a load of torrents so I can watch them seed' are two very different things. Planning capacity to those criteria mean once (if in the case of beast
) the novelty fades there's a load of unused and expensive capacity there doing nothing.
Remember, in an ideal world VM would throw capacity enough for all of us to cane our connections at once onto the network, sadly they'd go bankrupt fairly rapidly if they did so have to balance that pretty minimal amount we pay each month against our capacity requirements.
As an aside to this you'll note some areas haven't received capacity upgrades, in some areas there simply isn't ever enough capacity for them, as soon as it's provisioned it gets used, so they draw a line in the sand and let it stay congested.
This isn't a Virgin specific thing, it applies to cable companies throughout the world.