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Originally Posted by Martyn
service is unstable anyway.. and we shouldnt be punished for vms lack of service which they should supply without question.....
people getting limited during the day is uping there "co2 footprint" i guess we could get this limit removed, if we moaned enough to the govenment.. a 1 gig download that should take couple of minutes, takes hours.... vm don't pay my eletric bill, so im losing out any more...
back in the day of ntl, i signed onto the 10mb as it was a gaming package... with unlimited download.... then they soon updated it to 20m, and i've still never ever seen the speed of 20mb... not once.. i think im getting even less then 10mb would get..
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Ok i admit VM oversell in a lot of areas. Back in the days of NTL, there werent the amount of internet users that there are now (I know it sounds stupid but its true, the amount of internet enabled households has probably doubled by now). But do you think they would DENY selling someone their services because its simply oversold? No because they need money.
Im on the 10meg and i get 9.9meg on speedtests (Servers 150+ miles away). I see no problem because my area where i am is almost empty.
Now lets imagine everyones limited to 2.5gb a day. You have 250 users in your area. 100 of them are torrent users and you're all on 10meg connections. Adverage download speeds would be 1mb/s. Making it around 100mb/s. Suddenly, everyones internet slows down in the area who isnt torrenting.
Traffic management = Overusers are throttled, line is stable again.
No management= Constant busy line making it almost unusable.
Would you rather have Management, or no management.
It would cost millions, if not billions to upgrade the whole infastructure of the UK the enable everyone to have unmetered cable connections.