Jonto

Chaps

When downloading i seem to get 250kb for the first say 500mg then it drops to 100kb for the rest of the day, any ideas?

i am on the 2mg package.

Cheers

NWMark

quote from virgin website traffic management statement

"
Broadband Size: M
During peak times, the top 5% on the Size: M package download at least 350MB of traffic each.
Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till midnight) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed – their download speed will be set to 1Mb, with their upload speed set to 128Kb. This will last for 4 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.
Even if a Broadband Size: M user has their speed temporarily traffic managed, they can still download over 1,000 music files per day. "

Could be your getting traffic managed??

full article click below
Traffic management

FlightMan

Sounds like traffic shaping to me. Speeds can change dramatically though, as the contention ratio moves around.

See my last 2 days worth of results:

5/4/2007 3:24 PM GMT 12100 kb/s 222 kb/s 30 ms London ~ 50 mi
5/4/2007 5:19 PM GMT 2331 kb/s 217 kb/s89 ms London ~ 50 mi
5/4/2007 7:47 PM GMT 1978 kb/s 726 kb/s 88 ms London ~ 50 mi
5/5/2007 6:45 AM GMT 12384 kb/s 564 kb/s 60 ms London ~ 50 mi
5/5/2007 4:57 PM GMT 4172 kb/s 719 kb/s 42 ms London ~ 50 mi
5/5/2007 5:10 PM GMT 4773 kb/s 703 kb/s 64 ms London ~ 50 mi
5/6/2007 8:21 AM GMT 15737 kb/s 714 kb/s 31 ms London ~ 50 mi