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Midnight Tboy · 09-06-2011, 14:51

Hi all,

Months back, I had a couple of the letters about the detrimental usage. I'm running on a 10mb connection.......mostly off at night but downloading early morning through till afternoon. The first letter took about 3weeks from the date on the letter to arrive conveniently, so meant I was already tagged for the 2nd one most likely.....and I'd set my downloads to only download within outside STM hours (which I thought was a more than fair compromise - but they dont see it that way it seems)

Since then, I begrudingly switched to overnight downloading for the most part (much to the other halfs annoyance as the pc is in the bedroom). I certainly can't see the reason to justify 'upgrading' just to have faster downloads when the 10mb is more than enough for what I need.....it would just mean the pc would be sat idle for longer, rather than slow and steady.

Anyways, now that its been a few months on, I'm curious...........has anyone actually ignored these letters, persisted, and then actually been cut off or gone to a restricted speed? I've done a few searches and of course a lot of people complaining about them and still battling to get real target amounts and controlling of speed etc....but haven't yet read if anyone has been cut off as a result?

09-06-2011, 14:51	#1
Midnight Tboy Inactive Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 14	Anyone actually been cut off/restricted because of the Detrimental Usage? Hi all, Months back, I had a couple of the letters about the detrimental usage. I'm running on a 10mb connection.......mostly off at night but downloading early morning through till afternoon. The first letter took about 3weeks from the date on the letter to arrive conveniently, so meant I was already tagged for the 2nd one most likely.....and I'd set my downloads to only download within outside STM hours (which I thought was a more than fair compromise - but they dont see it that way it seems) Since then, I begrudingly switched to overnight downloading for the most part (much to the other halfs annoyance as the pc is in the bedroom). I certainly can't see the reason to justify 'upgrading' just to have faster downloads when the 10mb is more than enough for what I need.....it would just mean the pc would be sat idle for longer, rather than slow and steady. Anyways, now that its been a few months on, I'm curious...........has anyone actually ignored these letters, persisted, and then actually been cut off or gone to a restricted speed? I've done a few searches and of course a lot of people complaining about them and still battling to get real target amounts and controlling of speed etc....but haven't yet read if anyone has been cut off as a result?