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Old 27-01-2010, 17:10   #37
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Re: I'm on XL [20mb] & getting 2mb UP?

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Originally Posted by Broadbandings View Post
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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.
Again, there's the problem. Never mind the rest of the world (with potentially different consumer laws), what VM mustn't do is to take extra business in an area that is allowed to stay congested (except on the parts that are not congested).

That's almost the nub of this thread when you get down to it.
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