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Originally Posted by ceedee
Sure, but how many do you need to do every day during STM periods?
No user is forced to download anything, normal browsing won't get anywhere near the STM limits and the internet isn't close to grinding to a halt as some would exaggerate. STM may be a pain in the backside but the new thresholds aren't so bad that you can't work within them.
All it takes is a little patience and everyone will have a 'decent' connection speed rather than very few getting 'very good' speeds. Is that so bad?
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Yes its bad, the whole point of a high speed connection is to get things downloaded quicker, not 3 or 4 times longer than it should.
Sure, people can start pcs, xbox360s etc and download overnight, but why should they?
Err, normal browsing in this day and age is youtube, iplayer, itunes etc and those who generally do that are on lower packages and hit STM quite often, if you saw the true % of how many people get stm'd you'd be in total shock, it's quite amusing though because techs are often called out about slow speeds but it's stm that is the problem and as you know VM dont like to inform their customers.
And no, the limits on all tiers are appalling, maybe if this was pre-2000 but come on file sizes are huge these days.