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pip08456

26-07-2010 22:58

Re: 50Mb user claims FUP invoked

100GB may be construed as a lot for one person with one PC (note the may) but what about a family?

One PC and say 4 laptops, each family member using 20GB? Is that excessive?

BTW I do not have a TV account with VM or any other provider.

Sirius

27-07-2010 05:29

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Originally Posted by pip08456 (Post 35062994)

BTW I do not have a TV account with VM or any other provider.

Indeed its one of the reason iplayer is so good. No Tv needed :)

kwikbreaks

27-07-2010 08:09

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Originally Posted by Risco (Post 35062949)

Sure I might not be one of these heavy downloaders, however with 20mb when I did decide to get something of reasonable size I always ended up getting capped.

On 20Mbps you are allowed 3.5GB between 16:00 and 21:00 and still get 5Mbps even if you are capped which is more than the UK national average.

Certainly I've never hit the limit and I wouldn't regard myself as a light user - maybe your usage isn't so frugal after all.

Kymmy

27-07-2010 09:05

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Originally Posted by Risco (Post 35062986)

Not really, whichever way you look at it 100gb plus on a regular basis means a lot of downloading or constant streaming. The iPlayer argument holds no substance when it is freely available on TV catchup. Basically 100gb is 3.5gb a day 7 days a week over the course of 28 days.

Not really, a lot of people including myself do not have the VM TV service.. Any catch-up TV is always done over the internet (especially on the laptop in bed with a nice cup of horlicks)

Peter_

27-07-2010 09:07

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Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35063012)

Indeed its one of the reason iplayer is so good. No Tv needed :)

But sadly aTV licence is needed.:(

dilli-theclaw

27-07-2010 09:17

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Originally Posted by Masque (Post 35063069)

But sadly aTV licence is needed.:(

That depends what you watch on it.

http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.u...ayer/tvlicence

Peter_

27-07-2010 09:23

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Originally Posted by Thomas T (Post 35063079)

That depends what you watch on it.

http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.u...ayer/tvlicence

So you have to be careful what you watch otherwise you will need to buy a licence, but as long as you only stream non live through the PC.

But if you use a Television set even to stream I expect that they will still want the licence fee as that is built to watch TV and that is why you must provide an address when purchasing a tv and it may even have an inbuilt freeview tuner.

Kymmy

27-07-2010 09:24

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Originally Posted by Masque (Post 35063069)

But sadly aTV licence is needed.:(

Not true, only live/simulcast broadcasts need a TV licence and they don;t tend to be on iplayer but instead via the news or other BBC sites. The iPlayer service is for and I quote

"Catch up on the last 7 days of BBC TV & Radio"

dilli-theclaw

27-07-2010 09:25

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Originally Posted by Masque (Post 35063083)

So you have to be careful what you watch otherwise you will need to buy a licence, but as long as you only stream non live through the PC.

But if you use a Television set I expect that they will still want the licence fee as that is built to watch TV and that is why you must provide an address when purchasing a tv and it may even have an inbuilt freeview tuner.

No, if you only use your tv for vcr / dvd (playback) or connect it to a pc for example you don't need a license either.

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ15/

Peter_

27-07-2010 09:25

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Originally Posted by Kymmy (Post 35063087)

I know Thomas beat you to it.;)

Kymmy

27-07-2010 09:54

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Is this a race?

Peter_

27-07-2010 10:11

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Originally Posted by Kymmy (Post 35063110)

Is this a race?

No its not in the F1 thread.;)

Chrysalis

27-07-2010 12:21

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Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35063012)

Indeed its one of the reason iplayer is so good. No Tv needed :)

yeah I been watching ahem listening to tv (my eyes too bad in evenings at the moment) on iplayer here, as no tv in this room. Laptop bit small and poor sound but on my home pc it would be something I could get used to.

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Originally Posted by Masque (Post 35063089)

I know Thomas beat you to it.;)

iplayer does also live stream and last night on dragons den I even heard the sound from my sister's tv was lagged behind the internet stream, I expected it the other way round.

Risco

27-07-2010 19:31

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Originally Posted by kwikbreaks (Post 35063044)

My point is when I do decided to download something it can invariably be big. So yes it would be over 3.5gb on some occasions, at which point I would be capped. If there is a stats page to show how little I download then I will gladly post it to prove my point. :D

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