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Originally Posted by ceedee
It's not a question of "all the time" but "at the same time" as I wrote.
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-rolls eyes- they dont affect the network enough to cause a problem, when setup properly they can do this and ample bandwith will still be available.
Only reason they cannot is VM have purposely oversubscribed, why should customers be penalised, for that?
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No choice but to upgrade to XL?
How about reducing what they download during the STM hours?
How about putting up with the STM'd speed reduction for a few hours after they've completed their downloads?
Alternatively they could always dump VM and switch to Be/O2 but I'm sure they'll have some form of traffic management before long...
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Yes no choice, reduce what they download? again why should they? they are paying for a connection to which they want to use, your comment here makes no sense? that goes back to putting xbox360 on overnight just to play a demo the next day, so much for files now! what about if you pay for a movie online? those links only work for 24 hours you know, want them to download that overnight as well? you fail to see that because everyone has shifted to heavy downloaders overnight we are having night STM as well, when should they download? In VM's eyes, never.
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Paying a few over-inflated bonuses to over-important (and in my opinion, completely useless) execs doesn't change the reality of their finances. And they're bloody awful!
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For a company of their size, their finances are nowhere near as bad as you think.
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Your exaggerations are laughable, mate.
In another thread, I estimated that even allowing for overnight STM, an XL connection would still be able to download 115GB over a 24-hour period at an average rate of 10Mb/s. If that's "pretty much useless" then we'll see huge numbers of customers dump it in next quarters statistics.
Hopefully VM will learn their lesson and cancel the 50Mb/s service too.
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Most would think yours are laugable, all because you dont really do anything with your connection doesnt mean others are the same.
Again you just do not get it at all, i hate to cause offense but read this slowly and clearly ceedee, STM does not at current affect downloaders as they just move to overnight downloading.
HOWEVER, normal users want to do the stuff i mentioned, they do not want to download 115GB over a 24 hour period, they want their demo their streams and so fourth, barely hitting 115GB/Month never mind 24 hours and it IS THEM who are being penalised and having half of their connection taken away from them, you sitting here and publishing "115GB/24 Hour Period" means literally nothing to normal web users, they aint heavy downloaders, do you get it, yet?
And yet they still get stm'd and get called "abusers" by VM, it's all a farce to get them to upgrade making them think they need to.
So yes, it is useless for normal users.
VM are not going to learn as their 50mbit has STM also.