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nabalamma
06-08-2007, 12:00
Is 2mb broadband reliable on VM?

TheNorm
06-08-2007, 12:02
Yes.

xspeedyx
06-08-2007, 12:49
It seems the lower tiers are but my 10mb connection has always been rock solid

TheNorm
06-08-2007, 13:20
It seems the lower tiers are but my 10mb connection has always been rock solid

Eh? Does "rock solid" mean reliable, or very slow to move?

Stuart
06-08-2007, 13:38
Eh? Does "rock solid" mean reliable, or very slow to move?

"My connection is always rock solid. It stays at 10Kps constantly.." :D

BTW, I don't have a VM broadband connection, but when I did connect through my STB. it wavered between 5MBps and 7MBps (which, in fairness, was the maximum the STB could achieve).


@ the original poster, I have found that whether VM is reliable or not seems to depend on your area.

AbyssUnderground
06-08-2007, 14:28
Our connection from NTL/VM has always been rock solid (very reliable) with at least a 99% uptime a year. Speeds are 95% reliable, at least for me.

Ive been on it since 512Kbps, 750Kbps, 2Mbps and now 4Mbps. Always reliable in my mind and its essential to me since I run a server with very popular websites on it.

xspeedyx
06-08-2007, 15:23
Eh? Does "rock solid" mean reliable, or very slow to move?

I will let you take a wild guess

what?
06-08-2007, 16:13
yeah, on 2mb at the moment and have been for a fair few year from vm and not once has my connection been down or below speeds when i have tested it.

always been bang on.

my conn dropped once, rebooted the modem and i was on

but think it really is just luck as there are some ppl who do have probs but for the majority id say it is fine

Halcyon
06-08-2007, 16:18
Yes, 2mb is quite good.
But ofcourse it depends where you are, how many people in your area, etc.

TheNorm
06-08-2007, 16:56
I will let you take a wild guess

I was trying to make sense of this post:

It seems the lower tiers are but my 10mb connection has always been rock solid

You seem to be saying the lower tiers are unreliable, but the people who actually have 2 meg (as asked in the opening post) say otherwise.

dave6x
06-08-2007, 17:13
I have to agree with Halcyon, from reading these forums, it seems to depend on where you are.

My experience in Andover, Hants, is that from when I joined about 4 years ago on 600Kb/s, then 1Mb, 1.5Mb, 3Mb, 10Mb, down to 2Mb when kids left home, now today I've got a retention deal on 4Mb, I get good speeds and excellent uptime probably a total of 2 days downtime in 4 years. Download speeds on 2Mb from newsgroups were always 234-240KB/s. Just done a speed check on Dan Elwell's test after the changeover to 4Mb and I'm getting 3.7Mb.