Originally Posted by LostintheNW

I can see your point in that you can schedule your downloads around the STM, but what about people who decide they wish to purchase a game from Valve or Steam (whatever it is) or people like me who download a demo from xbox live to play (which is way under the supposed threshold) and then we are thrown on this pathetic STM system as we are deemed heavy users?

But how am I supposed to put a little effort in wanting to play games with my friends, am I to stay up all night until such time the stupid system is not meant to be in place?

The way Virgin are at the moment, I can't play online games properly as my connection is STM'd when they feel like it, if I download a demo I am STM'd, I daren't download an xbox original as they are over 1gig, films that I could want to rent from live are also a no no as they are 5gig for the HD version. This is not unlimited internet by a longshot its a restrictive version of what they once had as unlimited.

At the end of the day doing what they are doing is going to make people jump ship a lot quicker than they may have done in the past. And why are they only writing to people now with this wonderful new idea to screw people over when the system has been in place for months?

Before anything like this was put in place they should have made sure it was working perfectly as it isn't at the moment, and if its so easy to STM people why can't they just target the supposed 5% of the people who are abusing the service and restrict their usage? They are taring everyone with the same brush.