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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
I think you've misunderstood the ASA regulations. The ones we're talking about pertain to usage limits and usage limits only. Nothing to do with traffic management, shaping, or limiting. That's a completely different aspect of the service and covered by completely different guidelines.
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No, that's what
you're talking about. The point you've missed is that others are
questioning the limits imposed on products that
are following guidelines and advertised as unlimited. The guidelines are vague and references to 'moderate' etc are open to interpretation.
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
And finally, no, the reason you can't do 200mph is not because of road laws, it's because you don't expect to be able to all the time. There is no road law saying you can never do 200, there are plenty of roads with no speed limits, both in this country and elsewhere. People are used to and fully expect that there will be other limitations in place, and that is perfectly normal. The same goes for your internet connection, everybody expects there will be limitations to most of the time on any service that have nothing to do with your utilization.
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Your analogy was flawed however. A closer analogy would be buying a car that can do 200mph, subject to applicable laws and general traffic flow, but finding that the car dealer imposes a further restriction that the car will only do 20mph if you want to drive between London and Newcastle on the A1 in peak periods of their choosing, irrespective of whether the road is busy or not. This was advertised in the brochure of course, so that's all right then
