I havent read through any of this at all so I don't know how it all started but I disagree that the bandwidth (especially downstream) used by "illegal downloads" is a contributory, especially as you mentioned Netflix. VoD is becoming increasingly popular and every single tv series I watch is American. Netflix was in the news today for making a tonne of profit and having a tonne of subscribers and what you have got to think of is if people didnt download stuff like Game of Thrones off torrents, then they are going to stream it from somewhere like netflix (I know netflix isn't up to date). So this is the thing to think about
: the video is going to be downloaded/ steamed either way so would you rather it be downloaded in 2 mins from torrents and get it done and out of the way or would you like it streamed for 50 mins from Netflix. I think the latter would have more of a detrimental impact on the network and I would personally prefer peeps download the files and get off the network. I understand your frustration in buffering and not being able to sync at HD but that is VMs problem to solve and it is not the customer's fault for wanting to use a service.
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Originally Posted by Big-Gaz
I am currently on the 60Mb package and noticed new customer in the area can get 100Mb the new packages.
But it says they will not upgrade current customer after Dec 2014.
Is there away I can jump the queue and get upgraded quicker, without it costing me any more money on the month bill?
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Unless they have pushed it back again I was originally down for something like August - December. Because I actually need the speed I thought I would be cheeky (first time I have ever tried getting anything out of them) and asking to be upgraded early and they were more than happy to do it. They wanted to give me a discount to start off with and I told them I was a loyal customer and price didn't bother me, it was the service I was interesting in and they were more than happy to push the upgrade through. It is definitely worth giving them a ring and see what they say.