Quote:
Originally Posted by Bertie_MB
Lol, I like that example a lot!
|
Looks like I've found someone singing from the same song sheet!
Virgin have only introduced a speed limit during peak hours. They haven't broken into your house, trashed the place, tied your wife up and started beating her with bamboo canes.
You are over reacting and there is no need for it. It's no outrage, its no scandal. Some people seem to be forgetting the importance of the VM ad campaign. The broadband is still UNLIMITED, you are just suffering a speed limit if you download too fast.
Going back to the car analogy, you've bought an 80mph car. When your incessant speed has caused a few accidents the road behind you is going to slow down. Therefore the "police" have come along, pulled you over and said to stop speeding. Therefore you are sill able to drive, but slower, and not causing any crashes behind you, therefore other people are able to drive at the same speed.
If the government were to offer 100mph roads with twists and turns and 4 million people are using it at the same time, you are going to slow down when congestion happens at corners. This is the same reason why Virgin are implementing STM, to stop people being stupid.
Some people really do have to wake up and smell the coffee. You'd be a bit peeved if you were quite happily surfing away and some bugger next door is downloading Terabytes of porn and clogging up your connection. Different story then isn't it!
---------- Post added at 11:31 ---------- Previous post was at 11:30 ----------
Quote:
Originally Posted by PC_Arcade
Nice sleight of hand there. VM were voted best consumer ISP BEFORE this shaping kicked in, more tellingly will be whether they keep that accolade next year
|
I should think so. They haven't changed anything that is going to affect everyone, just 5% of users...