Sorry, cut my post short last night, had more to say but the battery was nearly gone on the laptop & I couldn't be bothered to get the charger out!!!
Anyway...
I've mentioned this before, what smeagoly1 brings up:
From
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...t/traffic.html
"moderate the speeds for the top 5% of customers who are downloading and/or uploading an unusually large amount"
Just because on one day a month for example, I download a couple of large files, or large updates, does not put me into the top 5% of downloaders.
Most of the time my connection is used just for browsing & email, the odd Youtube moment, the occasional music track from legal sources but that's about it.
I don't download tv shows or films, nor any Linux distros.
My connection is not on 24/7 dowloading torrents or anything.
It's not used for online-gaming.
Probably puts me nearer the bottom 5% of users to be honest!
And as soon as I go over a limit in a 5 hour time-frame my connection gets cut in half (I'm on 2Mb) for 5 hours.
Why not just target those
top 5% and leave the rest of us alone to use our connections?
Quote:
Originally Posted by smeagoly1
...Constant abusers I think an increasing scale of speed restrictions, over time.
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Now I like the sound of that.
I do think it should be monthly limits, not a couple of 5 hour slots every day.
And how about throttling heavy users connections on a scale depending on how much the went over the limit?
A little bit over, only slow it a little for a day or so.
5GB over the limit then slow it right down for weeks!