ofcom are making companies give the speed they state or to lower prices to what they recieve.
Virgin Broadband?
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ofcom are making companies give the speed they state or to lower prices to what they recieve.
They state Speeds UP TO 10meg etc.
Therefore they are still giving you the speed they state.
WoW someone knows how to use wiki.
CABLE = DSL = ADSL = PHONELINE = Digital Subscriber Line
It uses the esact same ratio contention as you get with the phone line.
As pointed out, you are bound by your contract. For the simple reason of two words that are in that contract "up to".
It is a shame really.
Where do you get your information.
OFCOM are currently investigating the issue of over charging for internet connections. The investigation has shown so far that user are being over charged for an internet connection that they clearly are not getting.
Also as part of this investigation, which has the full backing of the EU. OFCOM are also investigating why we are so behind the rest of europe with regards to pricing and internet speeds.
As for your statement above, this is not true. Though OFCOM have warned ISP that this could happen and fines would be incured upon the investigation being complete.
your top statement is wrong ADSL runs over phone lines, cable runs over the cable TV lines (in most cases).
CABLE - runs over fibre optic cables through the ground - similar to DSL but not 100% the same - broadband is delivered via the same method as cable television
now just for the spotters here are the full discriptions of the copper wire broadband
DSL - digital subscribers line - runs via BT's exchange and runs through bt's old copper wire phone lines
DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) - a technology for bringing high-bandwidth information to homes and small businesses over ordinary copper telephone lines. Assuming your home or small business is close enough to a telephone company central office that offers DSL service, you may be able to receive data at rates up to 6.1 megabits (millions of bits) per second (of a theoretical 8.448 megabits per second), enabling continuous transmission of motion video, audio, and even 3-D effects. More typically, individual connections will provide from 1.544 Mbps to 512 Kbps downstream and about 128 Kbps upstream. A DSL line can carry both data and voice signals and the data part of the line is continuously connected. DSL competes with the cable modem and satellite transmission for high-bandwidth information reception.
ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - adsl is a form of DSL but not the same and runs again through BT's phone exchange via old copper wires
ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - the form of DSL most familiar to home and small business users. ADSL is called "asymmetric" because most of its two-way or duplex bandwidth is devoted to the downstream direction, sending data to the user. Only a small portion of bandwidth is available for upstream or user-interaction messages. However, most Internet and especially graphics- or multi-media intensive Web data need lots of downstream bandwidth, but user requests and responses are small and require little upstream bandwidth. DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer) - a device that interconnects multiple DSL users to a high-speed backbone network. Typically, the DSLAM connects to an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network that can aggregate data transmission at gigabit data rates. At the other end of each transmission, a DSLAM demultiplexes the signals and forwards them to appropriate individual DSL connections.
cable is able to deliver faster more stable speeds due to the fact its delivered via fibre optic cables it doesnt really matter how far away from the exchange you are unlike bt where the further from the exchage you live the slower and less reliable the connection becomes.
as for dsl connections there are about 10 different types, SDSL HDSL etc etc etc all offer different functions and upload / download speeds or bandwith priorities.
thanks for that, really good of you to express your opinions of others, go and spam somewhere else.
=] There's other ways to make money with out being a nerd (Y) 90% of the **** you say i can't even understand so ermm, Gf
I'm on the Virgin Media 4MB line, and have had it for a few years now.
It was originally the 512k Telewest service, which went to 1MB, 2MB and now 4MB, varying from Telewest, to NTL, to Virgin Media.
Only up until now have I been experiencing problems with my connection.
Up until the Christmas holidays, the line has been fine. But now my pings are becoming very high, and getting some outs occasionally on some hops. Apparantly there is something wrong in Manchester some where, which is where I get routed.
Virgin Media also cap your speed and raise your ping (latency) if you download over 750MB during 4pm and midnight (peak times).
It was originally the 512k Telewest service, which went to 1MB, 2MB and now 4MB, varying from Telewest, to NTL, to Virgin Media.
Only up until now have I been experiencing problems with my connection.
Up until the Christmas holidays, the line has been fine. But now my pings are becoming very high, and getting some outs occasionally on some hops. Apparantly there is something wrong in Manchester some where, which is where I get routed.
Virgin Media also cap your speed and raise your ping (latency) if you download over 750MB during 4pm and midnight (peak times).
Virgin Media run Cable, and use their own UBR's, (like BT's exchanges). As far as I am aware anyway.
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bcos i couldnt be arsed to fk around finding some1 better.
plus i wanted the freeview box ><
although now that ive ordered it i find out that my phoneline is actually screwed n i may have to pay like 90 odd quid to get it sorted
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