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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
This is an argument that cuts either way, IMO.
First, I agree with Igni that VM should police their network to give everyone a fair chance.
On the other hand, all the mega-downloaders on a segment doing that at the same time sort of police themselves because they are competing with each other for resource. Then they whinge without having read the cautions that VM publish.
In particular peops have purchased an "up to" service and they know what that means. So, Kush, I think you are wrong.
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I don't know of many (any?) residential services that aren't an "up to" service. The way I see it, you're going to get heavy downloaders no matter what ISP you're with - be it Sky, Virgin, BT or whatever. I don't see why those on Virgin have to be more courteous than those not on Virgin. It's part of the territory of being a residential ISP. I'm not saying Virgin should reserve enough bandwidth so that everyone can get the full 152Mbit at once, but in reality they don't need to - they should have enough so that when bandwidth peaks in an evening, there's plenty for everyone at that time. There's going to be times when the internet is more in use than others - particularly big events like the world cup and such but again it's not up to the P2Pers to monitor their usage, it's up to Virgin to monitor their network.
It's not like Virgin don't throttle the hell out of P2P and NGS anyway. Poorly, I might add, but they still do it.