[Chrysalis]

there is defenitly legit uses to sustain usage of 10mbit upstream, stuff like live video streaming happens on a more frequent basis and more and more uploaded videos on youtube are of HD quality.

downloading extreme amounts on 100mbit is more then likely copyright infringement however an isp cant use that as an excuse to not cater for such activities, as at the end of the day VM sell their product and an an ideal world they should be taking responsiblity for it, instead the ASA have pussy footed and only require 10% of customers to be able to achieve the marketed speeds. Legitimate use of high bandwidth is only going to grow and not shrink in future and rumours are the next xbox console will be downloads only for games, no physical media. That alone will be a significant driver in bandwidth demands as games are likely to be 10+ gig a pop. Especially when you consider hdds in the consoles wont be enough to store all purchased games at once so games will be downloaded,played, deleted then redownloaded later when replayed.