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qasdfdsaq · 22-02-2011, 23:02

Most ISPs budget for their users consuming on average 3% or less of their available bandwidth at peak times. The fact that you're 30% - or at least ten times more than average means yes, they can hit you with detrimental use letters.

Technically, they can hit you with a detrimental use letter for whatever usage level they want, but in practice it's not how fast you download but how much you download during peak times. VM say on average, letters are sent out to those downloading more than 350GB a month during the day. That's 4.4% the theoretical maximum of your connection, so still several times over what is budgeted for.

22-02-2011, 23:02	#4
qasdfdsaq cf.mega poster Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 11,207	Re: "Detrimental Use of your Broadband Connection" - Second Warning! Most ISPs budget for their users consuming on average 3% or less of their available bandwidth at peak times. The fact that you're 30% - or at least ten times more than average means yes, they can hit you with detrimental use letters. Technically, they can hit you with a detrimental use letter for whatever usage level they want, but in practice it's not how fast you download but how much you download during peak times. VM say on average, letters are sent out to those downloading more than 350GB a month during the day. That's 4.4% the theoretical maximum of your connection, so still several times over what is budgeted for.