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Danny

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Basically the same thing that Tiscali, AOL, SKY and Wanadoo have, only they call it different things... like a Fair Usage Policy.

Tiscali see's it as anyone who downloads (cumulative web browsing, file-downloading, game playing etc) over 50mb of stuff between 6.00pm and 11.00pm on weeknights and 12.00-4.00pm at weekends.

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Pfftt, downloads are for overnight and during the daytime. In the evening I'm much less likely to be downloading something. So I imagine it won't affect me too much. But I'm kinda stuck with NTL sorry, Virgin Media since I don't want to pay for a BT landline.

I can't get used to calling it Virgin Media. Probably because I never get anything through the post from them because they don't have my address :D

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Why would I want to change? That just makes me want to stay with them in all honesty.

Your speed won't be moderated unless you're in the top 5% of downloaders. Our boffins recently ran a trial to see how much our service was being affected. They discovered that, in certain areas, just 5% of customers were downloading such a large amount of content that it was affecting the service for other users in these areas.

And we're not talking about just a few video clips. In some cases the top 5% of users were downloading as much as 3GB, just during peak times. That's around 750 music tracks in the space of a few hours.

So, unless you're downloading an unusually large amount of information at peak times, we won't restrict your service and you can download to your heart's content.

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