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Traffic Question

I'm on a 60mb connection.

In the evening I use my connection for general internet use, such as gaming, netflix etc.

Now when it get's to about 11pm or later I have a lot of data that I need to download. However it's not all the time this happens. I always schedual this to download overnight.
Overnight I sometimes download around 20-40gb of data. Sometimes this can be more though, as high as 60gb. this could happen 2-3 times a week

This is traffic from a SFTP Server.
These downloads are done outside of traffic policy's etc enforced by Virgin.

Is Virgin likely to rape me hard for download lots of data overnight? As in warnings letters and the like for downloading large amounts of data?

An Example in the last two nights I have downloaded 80GB in total so far.

Re: Traffic Question

I could be wrong but i thought VM removed traffic download limits.

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...downloads.html

Re: Traffic Question

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Originally Posted by thepixel (Post 35778030)

80GB wouldn't even be considered high usage any more frankly!

I've downloaded far more in a day when I had to re-install Windows and had to re-download a lot of Steam games that went poof after Windows decided that a clean install included deleting the entire HDD!

So if I'm honest, especially if it's overnight, you'll be perfectly fine.

Re: Traffic Question

There are no download limits at any time of the day. Virgin won't care, the worst you'll get is a snotty letter telling you that you've downloaded a lot but they can't disconnect you or anything.

Re: Traffic Question

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Originally Posted by Kushan (Post 35778067)

you'll get is a snotty letter telling you that you've downloaded a lot .

They still do that? Gee. It's not as if it's ever been effective, even with the threat of disconnection...

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I actually don't know if they still do it, they were at least about a year ago but I've never received one myself.

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yeah, I haven't heard of a letter going out for a few years now. I have downloaded 1tb/month many a time before and never got a letter. It was only 2 years ago when I downloaded 4tb in one month which triggered it. (and most of that was in one week)