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I have also now just read in another thread that one cannot downgrade to 30mb now to get the "free" upgrade to 60mb, although I may be interpreting this incorrectly. Overall I feel let down as a loyal VM customer right now, and that there is no point paying a premium for 50mb anymore. |
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Do you think that VM are implementing these measure because of people updating Warcraft, or downloading Windows 8, or watching streamed media? You see it every day on here, and other sites, nod and winks about downloading 'linux iso images', complaints about throttled newsgroups, boasts about how many GB a night people can squirrel away. People squealing about how 'their' usage is completely above board and "how dare" others suggest otherwise seem to be protesting a little too much. I'm sure that there are some, quite uncommon, legitimate reasons why somebody would be maxing out their 100Mb connection 24/7, but on the whole, nah, people are generally going at it hammer and tongs. Unless we include that aspect in the discussion of STM, then it's a waste of time, as people seem reluctant to even acknowledge the existence of such activities, when in fact they seem the main reason for having STM at all. |
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I also read of "everywhere is 100mb enabled now" yet I will not get doubled up from 50 to 100 until October 2012 - July 2013. Why is there a delay if 100mb is enabled and ready? Sorry for all the questions. I think a really helpful thread (sticky) would be the history of all tiers/pricing/stm etc. I certainly do not understand it well enough to do it, but you might Ben. |
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This is reason enough for me to be glad that I no longer work for the company and will not have to answer any queries about this new traffic management.https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2012/04/8.gif
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Seriously it was only a couple of examples of downloads that could make you hit the STM so why should you be punished for using your connection for something you paid for? Fact is with more and more content online streaming, VOD, you buy a game and have to DOWNLOAD it, etc its really not hard to see that this is a step backwards people buy their broad band because of their usage which is why I think a lot of people are unhappy. I don't download 100gb's every month but I would like to be able to do a big download if I have without getting punished for it on the day. |
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As mentioned earlier, the cut in speed by 50% rather than 75% is better, and I can't really think of much that would suffer from 'only' having a 50Mb download speed. I don't know how STM affects other aspects of the service, but I'd imagine that a decrease in ping/jitter quality would not be that noticeable, especially if the rest of the family is HD streaming, uploading to FTP sites, etc. |
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so basically the new limits for the 60 and 100 are not increased in proportion to the speed those guys get less per mbit. |
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I have the 50meg package.
I will be watching the football tonight online in HD does that mean once it hits 5000MB my video is going to start stuttering etc?! |
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As HD only requires something like 2.5mb, then no, probably not :)
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HD streaming uses more than that.
Netflix HD requires 5Mb for 720p streaming and 8Mb for 1080p. |
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seriously this internet talk does my brain in.
for the first few months with Virgin I couldn't have been happier, that has started eroding away. |
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I take it that it only get reduced if you go over your traffic management allowance? from 4pm-9pm I take it all speeds are lowered? |
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