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Originally Posted by chickendippers
Residential broadband is a contended service, you have to share it between other people, that's why it's so cheap. If you found out your connection was being slowed down by your next door neighbour downloading 24/7, I'm guessing you wouldn't be happy?
If you don't want to share your connection with anyone else you can shell out several hundred pounds a month and have your own dedicated line  |
The points you make are perfectly valid but these are not the point of this debate. Of course we would all be unhappy if a neighbour was downloading 24/7. A more pertinent question is whether Virgin should solve this problem by placing restrictions upon EVERYONE for the behaviour of the few? Virgin claim that only 5% of it's customers cause such problems so would it not be better for Virgin to enforce it's own Acceptable Use Policy:-
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...ptableuse.html
and restrict the 5% of offenders rather than the 95% of non offenders?
I contend that taking action against the offenders is the fairest and most equitable solution.