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Originally Posted by Mr K
To my mind the only use for 100MB plus speeds is to download copyrighted content eg. films, music.
VM and other BB provider must know this and all but outwardly condone it e.g. they boast about how fast films can be downloaded in their adverts - you can bet 99% aren't downloaded legally.
If it was properly clamped down on, the ISPs would see a serious dip in their profits as there would be little need for these speeds.
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Services: 150MB BB, TiVo & VHD XL TV, M Phone
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So you're a pirate then?
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And 10MB is sufficient for that.
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Just lost your HD iPlayer and your top end HD Netflix. You'll not even be getting 720p on anything with that. Please remember we're going into 2016 not 1996
10MB is more than sufficient to download a 700MB movie in around 9 minutes. If someone was desperate they'd do it on any speed.
Do you fancy popping Netflix about a few people whilst someones bashing away at the new CoD and someone else is using the PC all whilst on the sufficient 10MB.
mobile phones
iPads and tablets
notebooks
e-readers (such as Kindle)
desktop PCs
games consoles
Apple TV and media players
Sky+ boxes.
YouTube, Netflix, BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, Lovefilm, Netflix, Sky Go and BT Vision Sky Anytime Plus and Apple iTunes
Spotify
Skype and Apple FaceTime
Carbonite, Livedrive and Apple iCloud.
It was nice of you to narrow all the circumstances down to those of your own though.
Whilst we're still here we should move onto the current generation of gaming. 60gb games. That would 'only' take me 14 hours of using up my entire bandwidth or I could just opt for 152 and have it all done in an hour, or even spread it over a few hours and barely half the bandwidth. Now apply that logic to 81 other games in steam, 11 others in Origin and every single DRM free Humble bundle there's been. Uplay too in fact. Except I only have two SSD's and 1TB HDD, poor old me eh, have to uninstall and re-download where needed to keep it fresh.
Almost forgot about my Google Play content, HD movies.
I mean I could sit back on 10MB and use my stuff at the end of the month, or I could just stick with 152 and use it now.
So there's one gaping hole straight through this opinion:
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the only use for 100MB plus speeds is to download copyrighted content eg. films, music.
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