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Originally Posted by cadire
This might be a dumb question, but why would anyone throttle their downloads to a speed which is less than the speed under STM, to avoid STM?
... if you see what I mean!
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Many reasons.
Some people dont like being branded a "heavy user" or "using more than their fair share", or being told they are "downloading and/or uploading an unusually large amount" on a line they pay good money for to have way more capacity than 1.33 meg over 5 hours.
Perhaps they dont want to feel that their "usage of the service would affect other users if they weren’t managed" or be in "the top 5% of users on a daily basis".
Also, if you are STMed in the afternoon, you are labeled an "extreme case"
(Quotes from
http://www.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management.php)
So, to avoid being any or all of these 'nasty' types of user, you must stay under that crawling along figure of 1.33 meg over 5 hours (XL user, top tier package).
Others may wish to schedule downloads after 9pm, perhaps to watch something late in the evening before they sleep.
Alternatively there is the nasty side effect throttling has on uprates, they may be gaming or using other time sensitive applications and need all their uprate for the duration, or after.