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On 30/09/10 21:13, Grant Sewell wrote:
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:47:47 +0100 Rob Beard wrote:I see in other news Virgin are upgrading the upload speeds of subscribers so upload speeds will be 10% of the download speed, so 50MBit down/5Mbit up, 20MBit down/2Mbit up and 10MBit down/1MBit up. The only drawback being that P2P is now being throttled in peak time. I do wonder if that is partly to do with BT rolling FTTC?That's all very well, but large portions of the Virgin network are ill equipped to cope with 20Mbit, let alone 50Mbit. Take PL4, for instance. One of the most densely student-populated post-codes in Plymouth. Tonnes of students grouping together with their flat/house mates to get 50Mbit broadband with TV and Phone. What do they get? They'd be lucky to get 8Mbit. I don't think anyone needs to guess the postcode I live in. Grant.
I see your point, but in TQ2 I get a full 20MBit, can't comment on 50MBit as I haven't got it (yet).
I guess in Plymouth having a large student population it must affect areas like this, Torquay on the other hand not having many students other than college students probably means that the network in the area is less stressed (although I'd have thought that Plymouth, Torquay, Newton Abbot and Exeter would all go down the same fat pipe to Virgin's nearest POP). Of course I could be wrong.
But hey, Plymouth are suggested to get FTTC/FTTP from around September 2011...
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4401-bt-openreach-announce-159-new-fibre-broadband-exchanges.html Torquay on the other hand get diddly squat! Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq