Tidgy

Well looks like virgin media are changignt here traffic managament policy on there internet packages,

http://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-ma...hresholds.html


so if your on 100/120mb connetion like me you you get 4500mb download limit before hit TM. Considering i use steam for games I can hit that 3 times over if i download games. Pretty **** poor to say the least, guess im looking elsewhere now.

Norman Dog

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That really boils my p!ss, advertising headline speeds that can only be used at full throttle for a few minutes.

Trouble is, for home broadband, no-one else comes close.

ALi-B

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This is something that is getting to be of an issue now.

I used to have my limit at 1GB at peak hours (think its 2.5GB now) .

They doubled my speed from 10mb to 20mb but kept the same bandwidth cap. So I hit the limit twice as quick. My little cousin wanted to download a film for her ipad...just under 1GB...15mins later TM kicked in just as it was 99% completed as I was using the net for other stuff at the same time.

I'm going up to 100mb next month once I've moved house (taking forever), I don't mind as the new package is actually a little bit less than what I was paying. But with TM I often thought whats the point in having such massive downloads speeds when you can hit the limiter so quick?

But as Norman says. Its stable. Its fast and without doubt VM cable gives the fastest ping times in the UK.

You wouldn't think a few milliseconds difference in ping times matter for normal internet browsing, but I do notice the difference in lag between clicking and the server responding every time I use a ADSL connection on a quick computer with a good LAN connection, and its annoying (even worse at work as the connection is appalling and nobody seems bothered in fixing it ).

Tidgy

tbh i;d just go with the slower 50mb connection, cheaper and ends up same palce anyway

bioforger

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I'm not surprised, when every user is well taking the p1ss and maxxing their connections 24/7, it's only a matter of time before it becomes unsustainable for the ISP.

Ant

only one person springs to mind, sinky

bioforger

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heh yep and i bet you do too on your isp

Ant

tbh , i used to but you soon run out of things to download

Tidgy

lol

steam is a killer for download volumes, when a game is 8gb download then thats doubt your limit already

bioforger

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What does boil my p1ss are ISP's (like Plusnet) who aggressively throttle their connections, even on adsl and will never admit to it or admit to how aggressive the traffic management is. That's why I moved to a proper ISP, where the management is minimal, so I can max my connection, whenever I want to. They manage it using bandwidth caps instead. Which is much fairer imo, although you of course have to pay for a decent amount of bandwidth each month.

chrisowe

Isn't this traffic management policy better than it was before? There is no throttling between 11pm and 4pm weekdays and if you do get throttled it's only by 30 per cent.
Also the throttling would only occur for an hour if you stop downloading, whereas before it was 5 hrs.

Tidgy

20gb before you hit the limit before and i think it was for a day, not for an hour.

its more the 10% of time usable that is what grinds at me.

Ant

nothing wrong with my speed

bioforger

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smug git btw your avatar is gay.

Ant

Nothing gay about a BMW mateeboy has one

bioforger

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it was the yeehaa bit i'm referring to as bent

Ant

If you're interested I don't mind , don't beat about around the bush.




But to save you the time I'm not a poofta sorry

bioforger

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wtf, you are sick