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timiano · 10-07-2010, 13:30

I have also received the same kind letter from Virgin titles "Detrimental use of your broadband connection". On XXL 50Mbps. Just checking some stats, and I must have done around 300GB last month, which I can't see that being that high an average.

Seeing as theoretically maxing my connection for a full 30 day month would be around 15820GB of data (only down), I'm using approximately 2% of the total bandwidth available to me. Now, I know it doesn't quite work like that, and there's peak times and all that...but there's a reason I pay for the top tier - so I can download anywhere between 2-10GB/day. My average over the last 6 months is about 150GB/month.

They've been nice enough to ask me to do the bulk of downloading 9pm to 9am, which I should be able to comply with, or at least cap speeds. It's a bit meh though paying for the top tier and getting warnings at this level. Sure if I'd done 100GB+ between 9am to 9pm on one day I'd maybe expect a bit of a notice.

Anyway, life goes on.

10-07-2010, 13:30	#35
timiano Inactive Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 4	Re: 50Mb user claims FUP invoked I have also received the same kind letter from Virgin titles "Detrimental use of your broadband connection". On XXL 50Mbps. Just checking some stats, and I must have done around 300GB last month, which I can't see that being that high an average. Seeing as theoretically maxing my connection for a full 30 day month would be around 15820GB of data (only down), I'm using approximately 2% of the total bandwidth available to me. Now, I know it doesn't quite work like that, and there's peak times and all that...but there's a reason I pay for the top tier - so I can download anywhere between 2-10GB/day. My average over the last 6 months is about 150GB/month. They've been nice enough to ask me to do the bulk of downloading 9pm to 9am, which I should be able to comply with, or at least cap speeds. It's a bit meh though paying for the top tier and getting warnings at this level. Sure if I'd done 100GB+ between 9am to 9pm on one day I'd maybe expect a bit of a notice. Anyway, life goes on.