[SydneyHopper]

The only possible positive to come out of this whole debacle is a clearly defined area of heavy usage that can go unpunished- after nine o’clock? You can appoint that free-for-all-time for all the indulgent downloading you want, and the rest of the time for surfing and surely, online gaming.

It is not ideal and does sound restrictive, but with a slight tweak to normal operational usage, no one will be punished(till the find someway to throttle overnight downloaders)

I guess the ire gets stoked because Virgin have incorporated a punitive angle to their service of late. I got disconnected from the internet and television because I slightly exceeded my monthly credit. A credit limit that they arbitrarily impose.

And this arbitrariness is again in force with what they consider heavy usage and this is no light calculation, this takes into consideration lifestyle choices, normal usage parameters and an internet paradigm of some twenty years

Which is hopelessly out of date.

Really, they should be thinking about how they can exploit the top users and get them to pay for premium channels that offer huge downloading opportunities, not punish them. They are a customer base, an untapped fiscal resource. What Virgin are lacking is the intelligence to corral them into an exploitative situation where their unique use identity can be used