peteh
06-04-2008, 15:51
Firstly, I would like to make clear that I do not wish to debate the policy's existence on the VM service itself, I just have a question or two regarding it for my own personal curiousity.
From what I've read it points to the "peak hours" being between 4-9pm.
If you exceed the amount of upload/download designated to your particular package during that time you get penalized for a period of 4 hours via reduced speed
For example, if I exceed 3gb of data download or 1.5gb of data upload (can't remember the exact amount) then my speed gets reduced (something like 5 mbps downstream) assuming an XL package connection
Question One - I found no particulars on weekend usage, should I rightly assume the 4-9pm applies on the weekend like any other part of the week? Or would the hours extend beyond this (for example, mid day till 9pm)
Question Two - The policy literally "kicks in" after those times mentioned? For example if I've started a download at 3am and due to poor host it finishes at 4.01pm I should still be ok?
Hope the questions make sense, I tryed using the forum search feature
From what I've read it points to the "peak hours" being between 4-9pm.
If you exceed the amount of upload/download designated to your particular package during that time you get penalized for a period of 4 hours via reduced speed
For example, if I exceed 3gb of data download or 1.5gb of data upload (can't remember the exact amount) then my speed gets reduced (something like 5 mbps downstream) assuming an XL package connection
Question One - I found no particulars on weekend usage, should I rightly assume the 4-9pm applies on the weekend like any other part of the week? Or would the hours extend beyond this (for example, mid day till 9pm)
Question Two - The policy literally "kicks in" after those times mentioned? For example if I've started a download at 3am and due to poor host it finishes at 4.01pm I should still be ok?
Hope the questions make sense, I tryed using the forum search feature