[Nottingham] Hi all!

Sergiusz Pawlowicz sergiusz at pawlowicz.name
Tue Jan 11 17:11:04 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 17:01, Dan Caseley <dan at caseley.me.uk> wrote:

> Virgin isn't dependant on the distance to the local telephone exchange, so
> is likely to give you a faster line speed. That said, again for moving data
> about, they also do a bit of traffic management themselves, nicking 75% of
> your bandwidth if you shift too many 1's and 0's.

virgin uses "fair" link management, it means during the day it limits
transfer to 2.5Mbit. i definitely do not recon virgin if you need to
transfer bigger files.

> I use Be. They're good.

I can agree, but AFAIK it is the same as o2, as o2 has bought them.

s.



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