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Originally Posted by TraxData2
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.
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Surely you've seen enough of my posts now to realise I certainly don't assume anything above 100meg is illegal? Dig back and you'll find half of my complaints about STM are the limits on the current packages and the other half are that VM provide no useful way for a networked household to work out what it's usage is during that period.
I agree that only the stupid (who deserve what they get) will pay for 50meg just to grab a few MP3s (although you can be sure that's how VM will quote the generosity of the limit).
The HD streaming sounds interesting - and is exactly the thing I referred to as something that would make the limits poor. It is possible that those on their own would break the thresholds. The other things are problems but not ones that will be hit daily - as they can be now, even with the 20meg package.
At least the 10meg left is still a reasonably fast connection -more than can be said for the others. Not the 50meg people are paying for though.
The thing is that TBH, I suspect that VM are more concerned about the quantity of data you receive rather than the speed to get it. As I keep saying, I can't help but feel that VM are trying to push people on to higher speeds when they don't actually need the speed but need the STM allowance that speed gives them.