spectrum48k

I appear to be having a bit of bother setting up port forwarding with my Virgin ISP (formerly Blueyonder)

Anyone else having problems ?

I'm getting the warning triangle in uTorrent telling me there's a problem. I've checked uTorrent and the router and both are fine seemingly.

Now I'm wondering if Virgin have introduced some kind of hardware detectig bitTorrent / portForwarding / traffic shaping ?

Added:
Just found this...


Today, May 3rd 2007, Virgin Media announced to users that new "Traffic Management", (or "throttling" as it's called in the real World), will be enforced for "heavy" users of their Broadband Internet service.

"We don't like traffic jams
Here at Virgin Media, we want all our customers to get the best service possible from their broadband. That means speedy downloads for all users – not just a few.

When someone is downloading a particularly large amount of information over a long period of time, it can slow down the internet speed for other users who might just be checking their email or browsing online. So to make sure our service is fair for everybody, we sometimes moderate the speeds during peak times (4pm till midnight) for customers who are downloading an unusually large amount at these times.

This ensures that the service doesn't get blocked up with people using more than their fair share – which means a lot fewer traffic jams on the information superhighway."

Broadband Size: M - 2mb
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.

Broadband Size: L (4mb)
During peak times, the top 5% on the Size: L package download at least 750MB 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 2Mb, with their upload speed set to 192Kb. This will last for 4 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.

Broadband Size: XL (20mb - old 10mb)
During peak times, the top 5% on the Size: XL package download at least 3GB 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 5Mb, with their upload speed set to 256Kb. This will last for 4 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.

spectrum48k

Are their any ISP's who allow unlimited downloads ?

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

Nothing at VM will be blocking you, unless you use ports used by spammers.

Also the TM will not stop you downloading, it will only reduce the speed.

Check your router if you have one or your firewall. Defo not a VM issue.

mike1210

some LLU's are quite lax on downloading but excluding business broadband products (which aint cheap) not really. the enta resellers also allow large amounts to be downloaded at off peak times

UK Free Software Network

example above, networks cant really cope with people downloading all the time, kills the network to be honest, IIRC virgin slow down the whole connection and dont block ports if you over certain limits#

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

could try that and a custom port scan to see if the port is open to the external world, check port is open to the correct private IP on your internal network