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jackthelad
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Re: Virgin Media Broadband
Mon May 05 2008 06:11 PM
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I've been wanting to bring up this subject for a while. It really ****es me off. If I only wanted to browse the web I would pay for the slowest speed (which some bright spark at Virgin thinks is called medium!). But I pay chose to pay a bit more to speed up downloading larger files. And what do they do? Slow me down. Their argument is that I slow down others down by hogging the bandwith. But if they slow me down I hog it for 5 times longer. Surely it's better to let me download my big file as quickly as possible and then clear off!
Now here's the science bit...
3 lanes on a motorway.
Traffic in all 3 is doing 70mph.
If you close 2 lanes for 1 mile, in order for all of the traffic to pass through the 1 mile stretch in the same time it would have to do 210mph.
You have to SPEED UP traffic to keep it flowing. NOT slow it down. Am I making sense?
And more thing. I've been upgraded to 10Mbps this week but I have never known web pages to load so slowly. 30-60 seconds or more. Most of the time, not at all.
Sick to death.
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