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Originally Posted by ceedee
As you know full well, because they signed up for a contended connection that isn't 'fat' enough to allow everyone to download at the advertised speeds at the same time.
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People are not asking to be able to download all the time are they?
They come home from work, they want to play a few demos, listen to a few streams, do the odd update...and for this, they get stm'd and classed as an "abuser" that's beyond unfair, it's downright atrocious.
That's what a normal user does these days, VM know this thus give them pathetic stm limits as a way to "force" them to upgrade to 20mbit which they dont need as they rarely download just like to do normal things, but they have no choice, win win for VM, lose lose for customers.
Especially ones who cannot afford it.
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Yes I know that it shouldn't be that way but the reality of VM's finances mean that is the position.
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VM's finances are fine, they are currently doing segment splitting on the network ready for docsis3, the matter here is they dont want customers to actually use any bandwith which they are paying for, and you can hardly say VM are in bad financial state when the bosses keep getting an extra 100k bonus every year.
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I usually download between 100-150GB/month and have hit the STM limits twice (once deliberately just to check it was working!) -- it's only appalling if you ignore the thresholds and/or have no patience.
Obviously, ymmv.
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You still dont get it, do you? people pay for a higher speed connection to get files faster, it's as simple as that, your not gonna pay £37/month to download files slower, patience? you dont need it, you have a high speed connection, you get your file fast, but now you dont, they make the download times nearly 4 x longer than it needs to be, sorry but that IS appalling, of course if you enjoy all day stm each to their own but VM's service is fast becoming pretty much useless, especially in 2 area's where overnight STM in play.