"www.GymRatZ.co.uk" <discount-fitness-equipment@gym.shop.com> wrote in
message news:ftbg93$nqp$1@registered.motzarella.org...[color=blue]
> Woody wrote:
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>> As I said on here a week or so ago, Virgin (as was NTL) got big by
>> taking over other cable companies, and the install standard and
>> system structure varied a lot between them.
>>
>> Get a good area in Virgin - as it is round here - and VOIP works
>> perfectly well, but in other areas it is not so.[/color]
>
> I disagree.
> I was with Telewest from the start and had brilliant service for many
> years through 1Mb -> 2Mb -> 4Mb -> through Blueyonder 10Mb even
> ntl:telewest merger was fine until VM took over and started sharing
> main pipes with ADSL trafic. Cutting costs through cutting spending
> while trying to reel in more & more customers so they could find a
> foolish investor willing to buy a company that was so far down in the
> sh1t it was a hopelss investment...
> That's when it went tits-up, that's when voip and even broadband
> became crippled.
>
> Nothing to do with the installation of local infrastructure as that
> was all un-changed.
>
> The deeper they get into debt, the more they will be throttling back
> bandwidth and limiting QOS. Just as long as they allow you to hit
> 20Mbps for a few minutes each day when everyone is asleep, the service
> will keep getting worse.
> I will never go back to cable not now not never.
>
> Pete
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Have it your way if you wish, but I have done speed tests regularly over
the last six months at all times of the day and on a 4Mb cable feed I
have never had less than 3.7Mb and often have 4.2Mb - and this is
morning, afternoon, early and late evening, weekends when the weather is
bad, whatever. I can't think that VM either know when I will do a test
or have singled out my line to give special treatment, ergo the
situation must vary according to location.

Any other VM users around the country care to do some speed testing and
comment?


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Woody

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