[Kushan]

It's not like Virgin only has so much bandwidth per day, it's the peak bandwidth they need to manage. Perhaps all the recent upgrades have indeed been worth it. When we all had our recent spat of zero-STM, most of us found that we were still getting full speed - there were a few that weren't, of course, but I think the majority were happy. That says to me that in many parts of the network, there is indeed bandwidth to spare.

Perhaps this change in STM is just testing the waters a bit, a way of seeing if almost no STM is feasible. It's clear that the next step is to remove it all together (or start concentrating on the upload speed STM, who knows) but time will tell.

Whatever happens, this is a good thing. Unless you're in a congested area, but I was never convinced that STM had much of an impact there anyway.