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General Maximus · 23-11-2015, 20:12

yeah, I know we all love to criticise VM and other isps over here but I think the one thing we take for granted is the absence of usage caps. I have got an english friend who married an American woman last year and moved back over to the US with her and he hates his internet connection. He is one of these guys that plays games for a living, does live streams and stuff and gets paid for it. With the amount of traffic he generates, game patches/updates and everything else, he has to be really really careful that he doesn't exceed his limit every month because if he does he gets charged stupid prices per 10gb.

I love the idea of fibre but any limits need to be proportional to the bandwidth. Luckily when stm was still in place VM imho were very reasonable with the hourly thresholds on the downstream.

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General Maximus Ran Away Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lincoln Services: phone + 1gbit BB + SkyQ Posts: 11,021	Re: Virgin Media 70, 150 & 200 Mb Upgrades yeah, I know we all love to criticise VM and other isps over here but I think the one thing we take for granted is the absence of usage caps. I have got an english friend who married an American woman last year and moved back over to the US with her and he hates his internet connection. He is one of these guys that plays games for a living, does live streams and stuff and gets paid for it. With the amount of traffic he generates, game patches/updates and everything else, he has to be really really careful that he doesn't exceed his limit every month because if he does he gets charged stupid prices per 10gb. I love the idea of fibre but any limits need to be proportional to the bandwidth. Luckily when stm was still in place VM imho were very reasonable with the hourly thresholds on the downstream.