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> How does it imply that people cannot or should not be running any particular service over their connection?

To limit the number of people massively over-using their connection?

> The real barrier to hosting commercial services on residential connections should be technical.

Those are just reasons why a service would be unreliable. This would give another good reason for the split, occasional downtime wouldn't render a home connection to be branded as "not fit for purpose". You can't claim it was mis-sold if you were explicitly told you can't run commercial services on it.



It's not overuse if you're using the bandwidth that is advertised. If they can't handle you using the bandwidth, then they shouldn't offer it.


Did you read my comment? To do that they'd have to cut all the speeds drastically, but charge the same.


That's their problem, not mine. I'm not the one that lied to get business.


I'd have a worse service for the same money. It would force the situation to always be exactly the same as the worst possible situation now (everyone using it at the same time), assuming it was done perfectly. How is that their problem? How is me getting a slower service for the same price not my problem?

Second, where did they lie? My terms and conditions explicitly state that speed is dependent on many factors, including the number of active users.


No, you'd have the same service for the same money. It would just be labeled correctly, and not a complete fabrication.




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