I moved back to a VM cabled area, got the full tv/bb/phone package (100Mbit broadband) and left for Sky Fibre.
The VM over utilisation is rubbish and they just keep delaying it month by month, so I'm glad I struggled for two months to get my Sky Fibre (FTTC) installed. It was worth it in the end.

Clearly you can't be on one of the 5% of Sky enabled exchanges which they've just admitted have insufficient backhaul then. Probably a similar percentage to the VM problem areas.....

Problem isn't with the core networks but the edge.

"The Edge" - U2 guitarist?

In reply to a post by Saltank:

I moved back to a VM cabled area, got the full tv/bb/phone package (100Mbit broadband) and left for Sky Fibre.
The VM over utilisation is rubbish and they just keep delaying it month by month, so I'm glad I struggled for two months to get my Sky Fibre (FTTC) installed. It was worth it in the end.

My FTTC install with Sky is due next week. Been waiting since 12th Dec!

Getting very nervous that something(someone) is going to balls something up bigtime!

Virgin now calling twice a week trying to "retain" me!

TBB ping graph seems to be flattening out, and now on 2 upstream channels, they might actually be doing some work to upgrade us now BT have installed FTTC!

If FTTC has become available then it may be better performance on VM as people who want fast connections are spread out over both systems, rather than just crammed onto VM now.

Losing some customers is far more likely than upgrading the network imo. A couple of really heavy downloaders or more probably some seeding torrents 24x7 can completely cripple a local segment.

That said the problems in my area were by and large fixed before FTTC arrived so they do sort things out - it's the extended timescale to do so after problems occur rather than being pro-active about congestion that is VMs biggest fault. They also seem quite happy to allow things to run far hotter than most people would consider acceptable.