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Originally Posted by homealone
We are paying £37 to share a connection, people have apparently been taking more than a 'fair' share & VM have introduced measures to try & make the available bandwidth more evenly distributed.
The arguments for & against this principle have been argued in several threads before this, right from the introduction of the STM procedure - all that has changed is the details.
You can 'throttle your payment' - go onto the lowest tier & pay £18, if everyone with a beef about STM did this then VM might take more notice....
The one thing I do agree with is that they should drop the 'unlimited' description from their advertising, but otherwise I see this along the lines of 'if you can't share nicely by yourselves, then I'm going to do it for you'.
Some people seem to have the attitude that they are paying for a service that allows all subscribers to simultaneously download at full whack, 24/7 - that is not now, nor has ever been, the case.
I've said before that just because you pay water rates does not mean you are therefore entitled to run your taps all day & all night, because that is 'what you pay for' ??
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That isnt the problem for the most people, it's the simple fact that they are being classed as abusers to the system for wanting to start the odd download every now and again, a limit which you can hit in less than an hour in the daytime...(and 6gb really isnt much if your doing updates + a few demos etc every so often) so in effect they are payin top whack and only getting 5mbit when they want to use it, your find that fair?
Heavy downloaders just move to overnight downloading...again...which will bring in another stm...