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Dush · 23-11-2011, 13:38

You can download how ever much you want without effecting anyone if you just keep it after midnight. That's such an easy solution to the issue. The issue isn't people downloading more than 1tb, it's when they do. VM need to educate customers about this. They did this to me with the letter they wrote me about the 9am-9pm restrictions.

I would imagine that I'm one of VM's best customers in terms of not effecting other people even though I use between 400-900gb a month. I barely use my connection throughout the day, I actually posted a graph of my most recent 24 hour period in the thinkbroadband results thread. But when it's after 00:00 I hammer it for at least an hour sometimes three.

Someone using their internet connection 'legitimately' to stream HD youtube after work is effecting other users more than a heavy downloader who downloads over night. So my point is it's not heavy users, it's the time of usage that's critical.

No question a heavy user should be penalised by shaping if they are downloading at peak times. But for me in that scenario it makes no sense to have a connection over 30mbit since I can't use it when I want.

23-11-2011, 13:38	#63
Dush Inactive Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 118	Re: New Acceptable Usage Policy from VM (discussion) You can download how ever much you want without effecting anyone if you just keep it after midnight. That's such an easy solution to the issue. The issue isn't people downloading more than 1tb, it's when they do. VM need to educate customers about this. They did this to me with the letter they wrote me about the 9am-9pm restrictions. I would imagine that I'm one of VM's best customers in terms of not effecting other people even though I use between 400-900gb a month. I barely use my connection throughout the day, I actually posted a graph of my most recent 24 hour period in the thinkbroadband results thread. But when it's after 00:00 I hammer it for at least an hour sometimes three. Someone using their internet connection 'legitimately' to stream HD youtube after work is effecting other users more than a heavy downloader who downloads over night. So my point is it's not heavy users, it's the time of usage that's critical. No question a heavy user should be penalised by shaping if they are downloading at peak times. But for me in that scenario it makes no sense to have a connection over 30mbit since I can't use it when I want.