That is still 4.1 GB per movie.

True, but joy of Sky on Demand is you can queue them up overnight so ready to watch over a few days.

Can't remember how long the films were, some of the Harry Potters do last a long time.

Talk about kill use at the weekend.... and you have to manage everything yourself.

Before I could let downloads hit the speed reduction and all was ok .....I could manage on 50Meg

My 100/5Mb connection is theoretically capable of 540Gb/27GB in the 12hours of "daytime"

Under the previous rules I was allowed 120/21.75GB all days of week

now week days are 256.5/17.9GB ....as if upload wasn't weak enough as it is.

weekends are 54/11.4GB

Just an attempt to show how limited "unlimited" really is when viewed as volume rather than speed and to get this you would have to sit at your keyboard for the full 12 hours whereas before one could set timers

exceed any of the above and get capped....If only it were that simple..... and to add insult to injury lets just extend the limits to the time of day when people want to use a computer

Edited by deleted (Wed 17-Apr-13 01:35:47)

I was happy when I jumped ship last November, congestion and utilization in my area is really bad, their STM should be based on speed used over a time period, not data, it's speed that kills the network, but anyway, on BT option 2 UNLIMITED, and very happy with my 73.6Mb download and 19.8Mb upload (Modem Stats are 76.8Mb and 20.0Mb), all unlimited, all uncapped and no STM, gaming is so smooth, no rubber banding, no jitter and no LAG, same with streaming, no buffers here.

Anyway, should be the speed that judges the cap on you line, not the amount of data you download.

Line Speed

Line Quality

Edited by deleted (Wed 17-Apr-13 08:36:08)

Anyway, should be the speed that judges the cap on you line, not the amount of data you download.

It is, you just need to think about it differently. If you are on a 30Mbps package then using more than 20% of your speed on average over an hour will see you restricted.

My main gripe with this is that they aren't treating all the tiers equally, i.e. the 100Mbps users can only use 10% of their speed on average. So my family and I are still OK to run a couple of HD streams but if we run more than that we're likely to hit the limits - though hopefully we wouldn't actually notice.

You have a Sky box downloading over a Virgin Media connection?

Maybe you've already checked but you may be able to get a better deal by getting broadband and TV from the same company.

Only reason I say this is because of the thought process you triggered when I read your post, i.e. that maybe Sky could allow you to set maximum download rates in their box to cope with this type of situation better, but then I realised how ridiculous that sounded, Sky would simply prefer it if you moved over to their broadband.

Am I right in thinking that the users on slower speeds (5, 10, 20) seem to be penalised more heavily?

Have I got this right - as a user on 10M, (and I have no problem with the speed I get at 10m) I can watch approx 1-2 hours of Iplayer in the evening to reach the 750mb limit and then be restricted for 5 hours down to 75% of my initial speed ie 2.5m?

exactly Andrew

It looks to me as if you want to fully utilise your connection during hours your most likely to be at home then you will be punished and have effectively 70% of what your paying for.

ie weekends looks a complete f**k up

I understand if your only 120 and throttled to 80 then download speeds are hardly going to change really even if you are throttled.

my question remains is the throttling just another way of covering up congestions problems, because the three years I was with VM I spent countless hours on the phone moaning that I was being throttled without evening hitting the limits.