Woody wrote
on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:54:12 GMT in message
<oyjKj.29932$Ff4.21015@newsfe5-win.ntli.net>:
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>"www.GymRatZ.co.uk" <discount-fitness-equipment@gym.shop.com> wrote in
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>> 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?[/color]

I'm on the 4Mbit service and it's always around 4Mbit other than 3 times I
was STM'd and all three times I intended to get STM'd for evaluation
purposes. The third time was tonight, to check VoIP out on a STM'd line
again. There were no dropped packets on the calls when STM'd. The calls
were fine too.

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