In article , dennis@home
scribeth thus


"tony sayer" wrote in message
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Well yes that is exactly what it is.
And its obviously the point I made that there is something wrong with the
sub if they are only getting 1Mb/s from Virgin cable.

So what do you think is wrong then?..

There are several obvious possibilities.
Maybe they are still using one of the STBs to get their broadband.
They were well known for only giving about 1M whichever service you paid
for.

The Older cable modems couldn't deliver much bandwidth either.

These must be very old ones then?. Surprised there're still in service..

I don't know if they have actually gone around replacing them but they
hadn't when I left a few years ago.

What left the cable company when you worked there?..


Then there are allsorts of possible problems with wireless.

Congestion..


But the most obvious is that they did the test after being throttled due to
using too much bandwidth.
IIRC 1M is one of the caps they impose on people they deem to be using their
connection too much.


However you appear to think I said there was something wrong with Virgin
cable and have gone all defensive.

Nope just telling it like it is..

However if you want me to list what's wrong with Virgin cable I can.

Go on then...

Contention.

Not a problem here and this connection gets hammered!..

Customer service.

No better or worse then the telecoms average but OTOH nowhere near as
good as someone like Zen Internet...

Erratic upgrades.

Well they have done what they said they would here around a month late
but it was very usable before it was upgraded..

Sometimes run out of IP addresses on a node

Well we're all running out of IP4 hence the move to IP6 ..

Poor connectivity with the rest of the net.

Not seen that..

Poor news server.

Who has got one?..

Abuse dept liable to cut you off if anyone complains about you, without
warning.

Eh?..

Caps and traffic shaping.

Not here that I've noticed..

Cost.

So 20 odd sheets a month for a line and 20 meg service thats delivered
at the said 20 not up to 20 ?, doesn't seem that bad to me..

You have to manually change modem settings to get the best from your
connection as Virgin seldom put you on the best channels for your area and
the channels change all the time.

What are you on about?. Theres nothing I can adjust in the current modem
or the one we had before that!..

Explain yourself please!..




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Tony Sayer