Reply to post: No all VM's fault

Virgin Media admits it 'fell short' in broadband speeds ahead of lashing from BBC's Watchdog

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No all VM's fault

Here in sunny Surrey, NTL dug up the streets and laid some wonky co-ax decades ago. This is the crap that VM has to deliver 100Mb over today. As there are 30+ houses served by the one bit of co-ax this is impossible so short of digging up the road again and laying some er.... Fibre and then laying that into peoples homes there is SFA chance of any VM customer getting decent speeds between 14:00 and 23:59.

I moved from VM to another ISP that uses Fibre to the green box up the street. At the moment only one other home is connected to Fibre so 78Mbit download is there pretty well 24/7

So VM marketing wonks, Yes we can theorteically get 100mbits down but in reality 10-15 is the norm. So get off your far arses and upgrade the final half mile and you will have a load of happy customers.

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