Virgin neutrality story

i would have no problem leaving virgin if there was something else that could match their speed for the same just a little bit of more money.

tell me where i can get these speeds and i'll move.

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StevenG

p.s. about the issue at hand i thought the throtteling was bad enough but this is just insaine! how can they tell you to pay more for what you had for free?

if all ISP's take this up i think things all over the world will change massively.
 
tbh I've only been on BT for a week and I'm sick of the whole 512 after 5pm thing, get home, want to download somthing on my new line, oh wait its gonna take all week.
nice.
unlimited my arse
 
StevenG said:
its a fresh install and id just started those... OH..

does anyone else want more UPLOAD speed???? i know i do....

takes AGES to upload enough for me to download something new.

StevenG
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Be, assuming you have a good phone line. The 'normal' package at £18/month has double the upload speed of VM's 20mbit too.
 
VeNT said:
tbh I've only been on BT for a week and I'm sick of the whole 512 after 5pm thing, get home, want to download somthing on my new line, oh wait its gonna take all week.
nice.
unlimited my arse
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i love how they say Unlimited*
*= we'll cap you to **** so you cant download a thing when your actually HOME

Aekeron said:
Be, assuming you have a good phone line. The 'normal' package at £18/month has double the upload speed of VM's 20mbit too.
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it may have double upload but the download is not going to be anywhere near is it? i mean 2.3MB/s thats 2350KB/s almost 19Mbps that i get constantly!

guess im stuck with VM then with their slow upload and stupid throtteling in the peak times when im on it most!

StevenG
 
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Well, I'm sure it'd be faster than the 5mbit you're limited to when you get throttled....

If you've got a very good phoneline then you'll hit 24mbit (highest sync speed I've seen is about 25mbit, but that's literally one person out of a huge sample figure).

Personally I value having higher upload speed more than download speed. I've been happy with my 10, 15 and 18mbit (different houses I've lived in) on Be and the 1.3mbit upload. I'm on 20mbit cable at the moment and even though hitting 2.4MB/sec download is nice, it's not like "only" getting 1.6MB/sec download really felt particularly slow.
 
well i dont actually have a phone line and i certainly aint paying for one to be installed. i guess i'll stick with VM till i move or they screw their service up.

StevenG
 
It's free to 'reconnect' your line.

Anyhow, there's not much point switching if you're happy with what you've got. As you've said :)
 
ive been pretty ok with virgin's capping... even after being capped about 8 times now

ive downloaded over 200gb in the past 2 or 3 weeks, loving the speed - getting exactly what i paid for

actually capped at this very moment... 5mb - getting 600kb/s on my pr0n downloads as we speak... still decent, no higher pings in games... nothing noticable anyway
 
memory said:
http://www.infowars.com/?p=2640

just came across that link...probaby belongs in this thread
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I personally think it's bull..
Bell Canada and TELUS (formerly owned by Verizon) employees officially confirm that by 2012 ISP’s all over the globe will reduce Internet access to a TV-like subscription model,
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Employees officially confirm, if that's the case which employees, what level are they working at, and what confirmation has there been from the companies themselves?
Given that most ISP's don't exactly tell their lower/middle level employees about what's being discussed/planned even just a year in advance, and many employees who would be in on such discussions would most likely be bound by NDA's...
Not to mention the problems of getting ISP's in the same country to work together, let alone world wide, and the potential regulatory problems if they schemed together to something like this.

Also if it's true then why is it only seemingly appearing on one site with a specific agenda rather than news sites that actually require semi reliable sources?

I wouldn't be surprised if there is any truth in the story, that it's a specific type of access plan, aimed at a specific market "kid friendly" or lowest cost etc, or that it's simply an isp looking at what the future could possibly involve (much the same way most governments plan ahead for possible wars with almost any country - i believe the US still has plans for if it's invaded by Canada for example)..
 
Well i'm deffo stuck will NTL for at least another year as i dumped Sky TV to get VM TV to package my BB, Phone and TV togeather, so thats phone line, 20mb BB and the XL TV Package for £48 a month, not bad i think.

I don't honestly still need 20mb BB but i like to know it's there when i do use it, i had a letter from them today indicating the roll out of the 50mb connections.

I've never had any issues with there BB service since i started using it when they first launched there first 512mb service several years ago.
 
Werewolf said:
I personally think it's bull..


Employees officially confirm, if that's the case which employees, what level are they working at, and what confirmation has there been from the companies themselves?
Given that most ISP's don't exactly tell their lower/middle level employees about what's being discussed/planned even just a year in advance, and many employees who would be in on such discussions would most likely be bound by NDA's...
Not to mention the problems of getting ISP's in the same country to work together, let alone world wide, and the potential regulatory problems if they schemed together to something like this.

Also if it's true then why is it only seemingly appearing on one site with a specific agenda rather than news sites that actually require semi reliable sources?

I wouldn't be surprised if there is any truth in the story, that it's a specific type of access plan, aimed at a specific market "kid friendly" or lowest cost etc, or that it's simply an isp looking at what the future could possibly involve (much the same way most governments plan ahead for possible wars with almost any country - i believe the US still has plans for if it's invaded by Canada for example)..
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it does seem a little far fetched but at the same time....do big companies have limits to their greed ?
if its possible to make more money by screwing the general public over then i think a fair few of them would.......i say a fair few as i dont really want to believe that every company would do this and there is still good ppl out there.
 
They do have limits, especially when it's likely to kill their business.

I reread that article and it states that it's in reference to a wireless web package, which presumably means it's going to be charged similar to a data GSM package (which is oddly enough what it sounds like it is basically).

It also has the old "Bill gates suggested an email charge" thing, which if memory serves was one of the possibly suggestions made at one point to the spam problem, and promptly dropped as things like spam filters became better and it became more apparent it wasn't in any way feasible for end users.

It's basically a conspiracy nut/the government/big business is out to get us article.
 
Werewolf said:
They do have limits, especially when it's likely to kill their business.

I reread that article and it states that it's in reference to a wireless web package, which presumably means it's going to be charged similar to a data GSM package (which is oddly enough what it sounds like it is basically).

It also has the old "Bill gates suggested an email charge" thing, which if memory serves was one of the possibly suggestions made at one point to the spam problem, and promptly dropped as things like spam filters became better and it became more apparent it wasn't in any way feasible for end users.

It's basically a conspiracy nut/the government/big business is out to get us article.
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well it looks like you know what your talking about....lets just hope your right
 
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