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Originally Posted by brundles
Perhaps my maths is out but isn't 50meg down to 10meg an 80% drop rather than 90%?
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80% Though its more near 90% with overheads from the severe upload drop, the way they prioritise this means you will never get 10Mbit down.
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I can see the logic for regularly breaking the current thresholds with gaming, streaming, etc, but given that 50meg will get close to an 8GB DL DVD sized file in 20 odd minutes, unless you can find an HD streaming service, what other uses are there for regularly breaking the threshold? I can't help but think (again) VM will start to push XXL (or whatever it gets called) based on capacity rather than speed. (OK, that's perhaps slightly OT so to keep it on-topic - this would help push people onto higher packages increasing the ARPU again whlie moving them to the lower cost/maintenance (I believe) DOCSIS 3 network improving overall profitability).
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Ok, what about the fact most house holds now have more than 1 PC? 1 kid playing games, 1 kid streaming youtube, iplayer, itunes, legal p2p services, HD streams, dvd rental/downloads.
Then one person downloading (note that 50Mbit has its own legal HD streaming service)
That limit can be hit within 20Minutes and then the product cannot do what it is advertised to do, multitask and do it fast, 8GB is nothing, xbox360 demos weigh in at 1-4gb, patches for wow weigh in at 3GB, it only takes 1-2 people multitasking for you to hit STM and then the connection becomes useless, its not so much a thing of people downloading illegal content 24/7, it's just a simple fact that file sizes are no longer small and 8GB limit is stupid in this day and age, why assume anyone who is grabbing big files is an illegal downloader?
And sorry, but no, if you're paying for 50Mbit, then you want big files and you want them fast, only rather (stupid?) people would pay for 50Mbit to download an mp3 in a few seconds and not make use of the connection.