You sign up for the 8MB service, your told the best your likely to get is 4 meg because of drop off Okay except that. but my question is this, why is it capped at 3MB so drops off so you only get just under 2MB. Surely we should all see an 8MB cap , and get an average of 4MB occasionally 6 or 2.
This stability thing seems to my thinking an excuse. In fact I think its a deliberate lie. Surely the flow works like water, if you turn the stop cock down on the main, your not going to get a full flow at the tap.
Me I'll take and unstable service I think, and get my 4 mb .....
My point is if its capped at below 8meg at the exchange, then it restricts the possible max. If its capped at 8 meg at the exchange then I'll get whats left after fall of. If its capped at 4 meg or 3 meg, then its still going to fall off.
In fact distance is the only constant. No to my mind its make 8 meg avaliable.
Its like Katz example with a leak. Ill let you have 155 pints a day but some will leak, so you will only get maybe 100 pints. okay, fine. But what appears to be happening is they then cut the flow from source to 100 pints. and you still get leaks so you end up with 70 pints. LESS THAN HALF. . I want 155 pints from the main , and I'll except leakage.
My point is if its capped at below 8meg at the exchange, then it restricts the possible max. If its capped at 8 meg at the exchange then I'll get whats left after fall of. If its capped at 4 meg or 3 meg, then its still going to fall off.
Normally only the LLU service uses a cap in this sort of way. IPStream Max adapts to the line and then restricts below that, for stability reasons - there is "no" way around this. LLU uses the cap system because it can't adapt in quite the same way to the line.
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In fact distance is the only constant. No to my mind its make 8 meg avaliable.
If only broadband were that simple.
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Its like Katz example with a leak. Ill let you have 155 pints a day but some will leak, so you will only get maybe 100 pints. okay, fine. But what appears to be happening is they then cut the flow from source to 100 pints. and you still get leaks so you end up with 70 pints. LESS THAN HALF. . I want 155 pints from the main , and I'll except leakage.
Ah but it's not that simple if they tried to push it at 155 pints per day this could make the leaks worse and mean you appear to get less than you would at the reduced rate.
That and when you carpets get soggy, it shorts out your freezer and everything defrosts you won't be quite as happy.
Most people prefer a stable service than an intermittant but faster one because a lot of services don't take well to disconnections EG downloads, gaming, streaming, sending email, VOIP calls, etc.
I'm not actually unhappy with my service, its more the sense of an industry wide con job. like the use of 8MB when its really only 8Mb. Elhana how do I get soggy carpets, if its capped at 8meg at the exchange and I lose some due to distance, I'd at very best expect 6meg. I'm not surely going to get 20 meg all of a sudden.
I'm capped at 3200 ish, How can I possibly get 4mb, let alone 8mb. Now if they had to charge you for your average over the month, proportionate to the 8mb price, I think they would soon be boosting and uncapping. Actually I think that the cable network should be made to unbundle , just the same as BT was. They have a basic monopoly following all the mergers.
Oh well, one can dream of Korean speeds. And if anything its the abolition of asynchronous connections I'd like to see the back of.
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