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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
heh so.
current prices = cheap product, heavy use protocols throttled, severe congestion possible.
£1 mbit so £50 for 50mbit = as above but throttling removed.
£2 mbit so £100 for mbit = no visible contention ie. no congestion and no throttling.
Would I pay £60 for 30mbit without protocol shaping and no visible contention? with the 3mbit upstream probably yes. Otherwise not sure, but I would defenitly think about it. Would defenitly pay £30 for a unthrottled 30mbit tho but subject to congestion.
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I still contend that the main problem is P2P file-sharers hogging bandwidth at peak times when most people want to use its full potential for gaming, tunnelling and streaming. We should not be discussing, (with weird English or otherwise), how much we would pay for a clean connection. If that is what you really want you can pay VM to connect you fibre to the home and be done with it.
What we should be doing is persuading as many VM subscribers as possible not to use torrents, imesh etc and massive usenet file downloads at peak times. Without their anti-social behaviour we wouldn't be having this discussion about pricing / throttling / unlimited downloads etc. OK I concede that it is a bit like asking the sun not to rise in the morning, but we are complaining about the wrong party. Can you really expect VM, with their superior internet delivery record, to commit commercial suicide by admitting problems that no other ISP will admit, and then offer, through the mass media, a genuine unlimited perfect connection for a price unacceptable to Jo Public?
In other words we should put up or shut up. Do something to change the behaviour of the peak-time bandwidth hoggers and / or pay for connections only normally afforded currently by corporate bodies. eg Those included in the 1.5Gb trial.
Just saying.
