Virgin Media puts even more restrictions on heavy users
- added May 30, 2008
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Virgin Media adopts even more extreme connection throttling for it's most active users. Is this a fair bandwidth management strategy, or are Virgin Media punishing its customers from using all of what they've been solved?
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Grrrrrr.... this explains a lot! I thought something fishy was going on with my broadband. How can they do that?
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Higher-tiered internet connections, such as those in datacenters have tend to be billed by the amount of data transferred over the connection in a set period of time (normally a month), rather than by connection speed.
UK residential ISPs seem to want to have their cake and eat it, by charging on a per-speed basis, but complaining when customers transfer more than their predefined "fair use" amount.
The ISPs need to decide if they want to bill us for tiered-speed services, or bill us for tiered-bandwidth allowances, not both!
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