MSE News: Broadband adverts to show AVERAGE speeds 18 May 2018 at 3:22PM in Phones & TV 6 replies 2.3K views

MSE_Stephen_B

From next week, adverts from broadband providers will all have to show the average rather than the top speeds they offer - but the actual speed you get now won't change....

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[Deleted User]

The average "Standard" (ADSL) broadband speeds are going to be interesting as it's there that the largest disparity will show.

paulbrighton2018

Need to show the MEAN speed- what most users get, and exclude Richard Branson who prob has a server hot wired to Virgin HQ!

[Deleted User]

paulbrighton2018 wrote: »

exclude Richard Branson who prob has a server hot wired to Virgin HQ!

Except that Branson doesn't own Virgin Media. He doesn't even have a majority share holding. Virgin Media was simply the result of the old Telewest and NTL merging and then paying Branson a very substantial sum for the use of the Virgin name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Media

Ectophile

So if someone's stuck on a really slow line, then the supplier could get rid of them as a customer to push up the average speeds.

brewerdave

Ectophile wrote: »

So if someone's stuck on a really slow line, then the supplier could get rid of them as a customer to push up the average speeds.

....they already are; TalkTalk sold off their "standard" ADSL customers a few years ago and Sky are very selective about new customers and don't make any attempt to keep existing customers on slow lines.

Plusnet charge more for customers on the "unconverted " exchanges.which could be seen as a positive discouragement!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Last weak RightMove said you could expect upto 76 Mbps. This weak it has suddenly dropped to17Mbps.

My connection is far better than that. So again another consumer cause has led to no one finding out what to expect and every one denying any speed possibilities!

Cleethorpes was Virgin up to 100 Mbps, now a paltry 17 Mbps
Troon Ayrshire was upto 100 Mbps now a paltry 17 Mbps
Coventry was Virgin up to 100 Mbps now a paltry 17 Mbps