Thread: "Detrimental Use of your Broadband Connection" - Second Warning!
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Old 23-02-2011, 09:59   #16
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Re: "Detrimental Use of your Broadband Connection" - Second Warning!
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Originally Posted by Kymmy View Post
1gb = about 20 minutes of HD content (720p) so 300gb is only 100 hours of TV

Also if a BR film is downloaded at 1080p then that's about 10gb+ on it's own
Depending on quality (particularly with streaming services ala Youtube and iPlayer) 1GB could be as much as 1-2 hours of 720p content.

A BR film however is typically 20-45GB each, some even more. A standard BR disk is 25GB or 50GB but not all the space is used.

That said I don't know of any legal services to download full blurays, if there was one I'd be all over it. In Europe we barely have any 720p legal streaming services at it is, let alone 1080p or naked bluray.

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Originally Posted by blenky View Post
But the email makes does not refer to how much I d/l at peak times but says

"Unfortunately, it looks like your broadband activity is still having a detrimental impact and therefore you are in breach of our Acceptable Use Policy."

So VM are claiming that d/l at 30 % of my max speed is having an adverse impact to other users and THAT is why they are threatening to take further action.

Also my usage is not 30%, but 30% at the times I am d/l - which is not the entire 9am - 9pm period! Other times it will be 0%.
Like I said, VM can use whatever measure they want to say you are having a detrimental impact, and whatever threshold of detrimental impact they want. In practice, as they have said themselves, it's the amount you download they use to determine detrimental impact. 350GB per month between 9am and 9pm is what they "typically" use.

They are claiming that downloading at several times your allocated fair share, continuously, is having a detrimental impact. The speed at which you do it does not matter to them. 5 hours at 10mb is the same as 1 hour at 50mb far as they're concerned. Like they suggested, move your downloading outside the daytime period or moderate it, your choice. Doing the same amount of downloading at a slower speed still does the same amount of downloading.
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