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Originally Posted by Daftlad
Problem I'm having now is that after 10 minutes or so of loading up uTorrent my connection is cut completely and a reboot of the router is required.
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Unless you, apparently, have had a "three strikes" letter then VM will not have cut you off.
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Glancing through the thread it seems that there are two sides that are either it is fair to throttle because other users of the service are disadvantaged by heavy users hogging bandwidth or it's not fair because VM offer one thing (unlimited downloads) but then go ahead and limit bandwidth in contradiction of that offer.
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As you can still download whilst under the affects of STM then the service is still correctly described as "unlimited" for reasons given earlier
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Me? I'd just be happy (well not so miffed) if they throttled my service instead of cutting me off completely - I only load up once every few months and if they'd leave it I'd be all done in 10 hours.
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As far as I know VM does not cut their
cable customers off without warning; ie the letter mentioned earlier. This is certainly the first I have heard of it. I assume you're on cable and not their ADSL service as that, I believe, has different rules.
My own connection sometimes stops for no apparent reason, requiring a re-boot. Perhaps this is what happened to you?
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I think it would be fair to throttle users that are day in/day out maxing out their bandwidth but that it's unfair to throttle the guy that needs a blast of bandwidth every now and again.
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I completely agree.
I also don't like any kind of STM or whatever. The difference being that I understand why it's there and won't go away just because I want it to