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Originally Posted by DABhand
I almost laughed when I heard the 200mb testers were only getting 5mb/s upload.
It is abysmal in this day and age :P
EDIT: Especially when you can hire a dedicated 100mb box for buttons with a couple of TB bandwith at hand. A lot of people have been using these, to share torrents etc with, and just ftp or direct links to download what they have grabbed and shared. So the box for that little extra amount is a huge slap in VM's faces, and dont forget its a dedicated 100mb box.. 100mb/s upload (and in the UK to boot).
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And in a datacentre, not someone's home.
The 200Mbit testers have had as much as 50Mbit upload to play with just fyi - not that it's relevant to what others may get but there we go.
VM couldn't care less about these slaps in the face, the people are still spending their money with VM and VM don't have to pay out to upgrade areas.
Dedi boxes aren't guaranteed bandwidth by the way, that would indeed cost megabucks and wouldn't have a transfer cap.
You cannot compare bandwidth to a datacentre with bandwidth from the home, the most expensive part of VM's network, by far, to provide bandwidth over is the last mile.