In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

I now I simply thought that as I run my equipment constantly and use it alot it might be useful.

No skin of my nose if you want to shove your trial where the sun don't shine.

It's not my trial, and the bit of kit doesn't monitor how much you use your connection it runs some pre-programmed tests when the connection isn't being heavily used.

No need to get upset if you don't get selected for it though. I'm sure it's nothing personal there will be thousands upon thousands who don't.

The trial is purely a performance measuring trial, it won't be monitoring what you do with the connection, nor how much data you push down it. You can get the information on the tests it will do if you check out http://www.samknows.com, it's things like latency, browsing speed, speed tests, packet loss, jitter, etc. Nothing to do with shaping the future of the service it's for VM's epeen.

Edited by deleted (Sat 27-Jun-09 22:31:52)

You've got waaay to much time and disk space to hand!

It's people like you that mess everything up for the regular users......

Edited by deleted (Sun 28-Jun-09 20:56:36)

What are you downloading ?

Responses inline, probably the exact same ones that come up every time you brag about your usage and discussions start

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

As is always said by people who have no idea how things work.

Not really he does have a point, heavier users are the excuse VM trotted out for STM on earlier products. In addition pricing for the services is based on peak bandwidth usage per customer which gets a tad skewed by someone doing 5 HD movies in a day.

To start with I'm on a different network. As is highlighted by the fact i'm on a UBR allocated to the 50MB network ( 11 where I was on 4 on 20MB)

You share a 150Mbit network with quite a number of 50 and 20Mbit users. You can potentially impact them.

It's "regular users" who foolishly miss out on what their connection can achieve.

Depends what they want to do with it I guess, if people aren't interested in downloading HD they aren't missing much If 'regular users' were not foolishly missing out your connection and mine would cost much more than they do due to far higher utilisation per customer.

Those lovely 'regular users' subsidise heavier users in a pretty big way still. The average VM customer is still using less than a GB a day.

What you got to say to that?

The above! Don't knock the 'regular users' they rock!

What type of data, i take it you mean the illegal sort ?. Or is it loads of linux distros and tv on demmand ?