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Cable broadband is very area specific right down to street level. If your optical node (big powered cabinet within a few hundred yards of your house) gets oversubscribed you can kiss that 50/150/200Mbps advertised speed goodbye and quite likely for several months as VM take their own sweet time to sort out such issues.bingo_bango wrote: »You're obviously on the same Virgin BB package as I am, so I don't see how iPlayer buffers. Mine runs perfectly (both on PC and through Tivo box). My other streaming services also work fine.
How would it become over subscribed you may ask - well with cable's Achilles heel is the upstream and to get a decent download speed the upstream path needs minimal contention and just a few running torrents flat out in your area 24x7 is going to kill that upstream stone dead.0
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