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Mad Ad · 18-06-2008, 19:51

During the period 4PM till 9PM all customers downloads are limited to 3Gig or less, depending on your package.

Below are the rates that VM expect you to stay under, compared to the package speed you bought (or thought you did).

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XL Headline rate: 20Mb/s (20 Meg)

Allowance: 3 Gigabytes over 5 hours.

Actual speed you have to stay under not to trip STM: 1.33Mb/s
(1.3 meg, yes thats less than the lowest M service)

Reduction ratio: allowed to use only 1/15th of what you paid for, or your whole service is restricted, up and down.

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L Service (new)

Headline rate: 10Mb/s (10 Meg)

Allowance: 1.2 Gigabytes over 5 hours.

Actual speed you have to stay under not to trip STM: 0.53Mb/s
(0.5 meg, yes half a meg, the level of service available at launch 8 years ago)

Reduction ratio: allowed to use only 1/19th of what you paid for, or your whole service is restricted, up and down.

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L service (old)

Headline rate: 4Mb/s (4 Meg)

Allowance: 1 Gigabyte over 5 hours.

Actual speed you have to stay under not to trip STM: 0.44Mb/s
(0.4 meg, 20% less than the service available on launch 8 years ago)

Reduction ratio: allowed to use only 1/10th of what you paid for, or your whole service is restricted, up and down.

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M Service

Headline rate: 2Mb/s (2 Meg)

Allowance: 500 Megabytes over 5 hours.

Actual speed you have to stay under not to trip STM: 0.22Mb/s
(0.2 meg or 220k, the equivalent of 4x 56k phone modems)

Reduction ratio: allowed to use only 1/9th of what you paid for, or your whole service is restricted, up and down.

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Rates can be monitored using netmeter (free), netlimiter (complicated but free) or dumeter (30 days free only).

I couldnt be bothered to do the uploads in the same style, but for those that want raw data

Service|Allowance|Actual
XL|768k|1.4g|620k
L(n)|512k|700m|300k
M|256k|200m|90k

As we can see, packages above M have quite a high upload ratio compared to the headline rate, however because the download rates are so stringent and harsh, it doesnt matter because the uprate is also slashed when you download over the trigger level.

18-06-2008, 19:51	#1
Mad Ad Inactive Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 45	STM rates VM expect you to keep to During the period 4PM till 9PM all customers downloads are limited to 3Gig or less, depending on your package. Below are the rates that VM expect you to stay under, compared to the package speed you bought (or thought you did). ------------------------------------ XL Headline rate: 20Mb/s (20 Meg) Allowance: 3 Gigabytes over 5 hours. Actual speed you have to stay under not to trip STM: 1.33Mb/s (1.3 meg, yes thats less than the lowest M service) Reduction ratio: allowed to use only 1/15th of what you paid for, or your whole service is restricted, up and down. ------------------------------------- L Service (new) Headline rate: 10Mb/s (10 Meg) Allowance: 1.2 Gigabytes over 5 hours. Actual speed you have to stay under not to trip STM: 0.53Mb/s (0.5 meg, yes half a meg, the level of service available at launch 8 years ago) Reduction ratio: allowed to use only 1/19th of what you paid for, or your whole service is restricted, up and down. -------------------------------------- L service (old) Headline rate: 4Mb/s (4 Meg) Allowance: 1 Gigabyte over 5 hours. Actual speed you have to stay under not to trip STM: 0.44Mb/s (0.4 meg, 20% less than the service available on launch 8 years ago) Reduction ratio: allowed to use only 1/10th of what you paid for, or your whole service is restricted, up and down. ----------------------------------------- M Service Headline rate: 2Mb/s (2 Meg) Allowance: 500 Megabytes over 5 hours. Actual speed you have to stay under not to trip STM: 0.22Mb/s (0.2 meg or 220k, the equivalent of 4x 56k phone modems) Reduction ratio: allowed to use only 1/9th of what you paid for, or your whole service is restricted, up and down. ---------------------------------------------- Rates can be monitored using netmeter (free), netlimiter (complicated but free) or dumeter (30 days free only). I couldnt be bothered to do the uploads in the same style, but for those that want raw data Service\|Allowance\|Actual XL\|768k\|1.4g\|620k L(n)\|512k\|700m\|300k M\|256k\|200m\|90k As we can see, packages above M have quite a high upload ratio compared to the headline rate, however because the download rates are so stringent and harsh, it doesnt matter because the uprate is also slashed when you download over the trigger level.