In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

.. increased churn..

I suspect that a goodly proportion of the high end users wouldn't recognise congestion unless it was severe. Those that do care about speeds, jitter, packet loss, etc. in all probability are those who took the high speed package in order to actually use it rather than for willy waving and those are precisely the customers VM needs to lose.

stupid dads laptop battery rubbish (it turned off with no warning........)

users do notice the packet loss once gets high, as pages will stall or not load

wish Virgin would install an configurable QOS into there nodes (Fiber to cable device) so it limits the total speed down like BT do as that would stop packet loss or limit it to normal very rare packet loss, i Prefer lower speed over Packet loss

In reply to a post by kwikbreaks:

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

yep but what you forget is monthly limits will also reduce sales meaning less users on the pipe.

..and what everybody forgets is that if VM revenue falls they'll spend even less (if that's possible) upgrading the oversubscribed areas.

I stick by my original prediction - 10 years from now I doubt that this forum will have a cable section.

not sure if can get much less

as it is now the amounts announced are a tiny fraction of their revenue, and its not even concentrated on the bad areas.

Edited by Chrysalis (Thu 26-Apr-12 17:07:08)

Most of their money probably goes in servicing the debt. I imagine if anybody is interested the figures can't be that hard to find. I'm really not sufficiently interested - so long as they last the next few months that will be fine by me and after that I really couldn't care less.

In reply to a post by leexgx:

wish Virgin would install an configurable QOS into there nodes (Fiber to cable device) so it limits the total speed down like BT do as that would stop packet loss or limit it to normal very rare packet loss, i Prefer lower speed over Packet loss

How do you propose they install configurable QoS into a layer 1 media converter?

Edited by deleted (Thu 26-Apr-12 23:09:09)

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

I've just woke up..

turned the PC on.

Superhub reports 382kb used since 6am..

right so I should be able to get some speed to download my next lot of work..right?

WRONG!

On every protocol I use and whether it's via a VPN or not I am getting 18mbps.

18!

I am trying my damnedest to get hit by the STM because at least then it always goes to 50mbps and stays there.

So did VM expect that? a customer TRYING to hit the STM to get a better service.

Pah! can't wait to get rid of this shared [censored] and have a line ALL to myself!

I wouldn't complain too much if I was breaking the terms of a residential connection.

Cheers

Grim

Edited by deleted (Sat 05-May-12 16:00:29)

Time must do funny things down the road in Sheffield. Yesterday (Friday 4th May 2012) you said you were getting your SDSL line on Monday. Now correct me if I'm wrong but as yesterday was Friday and today is Saturday how can Monday have come and gone without me noticing? Think it's a case of you being all talk and full of you know what as normal. BUT if you have moved on to pastures new then goodbye as no network needs people who download such large amounts of data without any consideration for the impact they have on other customers.

Cheers

Grim