[Matth]

The basic fact, looking at the Virginmedia side, is that they are bumping headline grabbing speeds higher, without adequate capacity to support them, so that super speed broadband can burst speed a bit higher (if the other end and route is good enough, but the overall throughput is just being stretched even more thinly).

I was a 1Mbit opt-out, preferring the old 300k and generous quota to 1Mbit and having to watch your back for usage, as it turned out, they dropped the tight caps and the opt-out as it was no longer relevant.


I can't see the point of STM punishment stretching beyond peak times, if the object is to control bandwidth, then throttling or biased contention when bandwidth needs to be controlled would be more logical.