Re: Even Epic Knows Their Client Sucks

On 18/06/2025 12:17, Xocyll wrote:

Virgin also ended up backing down as I presume they realised that peeing
customers, current or future, off is not a good thing to do and that's
especially true now social media is all the rage. The also quickly
backed down after they introduced traffic shaping in peak hours have
advertised it as unlimited downloads. What's the point of paying for a
fast connection if you download a game and that connection is crippled
before the download is even finished.

Over here in socialist Canuckistan, they excuse that kind of thing by
saying that "unlimited" means a "reasonable amount."

Where I believe they slipped up was if you saw "Unlimited Downloads" in the advertising blurb you might expect there are some limits on it but these were so restrictive that a "reasonable amount" wasn't even in the same city. It was also that the throttling wasn't just minor it would turn a connection into to being useless expect for a bit of light browsing.
In the UK now ISP's still employ some traffic shaping but that's based around trying to prioritise 'time sensitive' traffic. I don't think any of them throttle the speed if you use it too much.