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Originally Posted by CrowmanUK
The bandwidth should be available all the time, thats what you pay for, the convenience of using your connection when you want it, i'm not saying that you should be downloading 24/7 but if you get in from work, fire up your latest game and see you need a patch and start downloading it while watching some stuff on youtube why should you get managed? It makes no sense, you could download sod all in the day or night but if you want bandwidth at a time to suit you then you'll get penalised for it, Mr car boot whose connection is burning all day and night gets penalised the same as mr once a fortnight who downloads a patch and watches a few vids which takes him over the limit. where is the justice in that? And god help you if you're on adsl cos you'll get 8k/sec for a week during peak times, maybe they should inflict that on the 1% of heavy downloaders rather than imposing the limits that are in place now, that way the heavy users will get hit and not the occasional over the limit downloader.
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if you remain within the limits in peak time & do your downloads outside that, I cannot see how anyone is seriously inconvenienced - the comments regarding illegal modems are moot, but not strictly relevant to the majority of subscribers, the 'peak' times when STM occurs for the rest of us are published and can be avoided -if you are serious about uploading/downloading files, then do it outside the STM window - you have until 10 am, just now, for example, what do you want you cannot download in 9 hours at 9 Gig an hour???
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Originally Posted by GraphiX2004
here's the lies behind it all.
it's nearly 1am right now lets just say everyone who's on here started their downloads
about 12am, and qued them up before going to bed, there is alot more people right now
who's using their connections maxing them out getting as much stuff as fast as they can
before the STM limit at 10am, look at your DL/UL speed now it's great smooth fast.
come morning, back to slow as a turtle when everyones at work or school.
so everyone in the country lets say for theory sets their downloads via the night.
that is a HUGE load and surge on virgin networks as normally people would download
in stages, some morning, evening noon, night, mid morning, it would be staggard.
right now everyone's hammering it all at the same time where's the traffic jam?
it doesn't exist there is no jam right now if people are downloading in the offpeak
with their torrents or download managers it should be slow to a crawl but its not.
it's all lies lies and more bollox.
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please post your links to the bandwidth utilisation data on the network, just now, so we can decide if you are commenting on actual data, or just posting opinions as facts
