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Originally Posted by BenMcr
It has always been 5%
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It hasn't. it was 5% then it went down to 3% and back up to 5%. I remember because we had a big discussion about it in the virgin newsgroups. the argument was that they put it back up to 5% to make it look more credible.
there was even talk about it on websites at the time.
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Make it the fault of some mythical "3%" (was 5% to start with) who "abuse" the bandwidth, depriving the reasonable people who just want to check their e-mail, and let's blame "them", those selfish swines hogging the cable.
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http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk...a-traffic.html
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Your speed won't be moderated unless you're in the top 3% of users (uploaders and downloaders). Our boffins ran a trial to see how much our service was being affected. They discovered that, in certain areas, just 3% of customers were uploading and/or downloading such a large amount of content that it was affecting the service for other users in these areas.
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http://web.archive.org/web/200712142...management.php
It went from 5% to 3% to 5% from their boffin tests in the space of a month. and in nearly 2 years since they are saying it hasn't changed by 1% either way.
