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Originally Posted by moroboshi
Sorry if this has already been asked, but these new throttling levels sound extremely agressive and will hit pretty much anyone who uses the net for video. I wouldn't fancy buying an HD movie over Xbox Live then have it fail half way through as I had hit some completely ridiculous bandwidth cap.
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Would an ~4GB Xbox movie download actually "fail" when an STM restriction cut-in? I'd have hoped that MS's fairly sophisticated software could cope with an interruption or slowdown.
I don't want to be seen to be supporting any STM but as I mentioned in an earlier post, the trial STM limits are less aggressive (at least for my 4Mb connection) that those already in operation.
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My question is this - would using some sort of tunnelling system, like VPMTunnel, somehow get around the throttling? If not, is there any way around it?
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The data would still be flowing through your UBR to your connection so I can't see it would make any difference, apart from slowing down your pre-STM speed.
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It's bad enough Virgin are implementing something as obnoxious and basically illegal as Phorm, but this capping/throttling is getting so bad they really seem determined to destroy their own platform.
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If both are implemented as currently understood, I'd tend to agree with you.
The only thing I can suggest is writing to VM to voice your concerns.