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Another thing to add to the list of reasons to leave VM. I think i'm ready to move now as well, Im just annoyed I have to pay BT £120 ish to get my bt line re-enabled.
Virgin Media re-thinks throttling policy
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Remember that's only if you're in the top 3% of subscribers who regularly exceed this FUP not if you do it once every week or something as irregular as that.
Even then I think it's still pretty slack, I mean I'm no mass abuser but I do like to have my fair share of movie/docu watching as I spend most of my time on Google video watching hour long shows and movies.
My personal (not including my LAN users) daily usage for the past 2+ weeks is as follows
What program is that from ?
I think that's pretty fair, 3GB between 4-9.
I use NetMeter - very similar, but it's free.
Thanks
Is there a free alternative.
I use NetMeter - very similar, but it's free.
Thats great..very very Similar indeed.
Yeah. Peak time sees people using their connection, surprisingly.
If you read the article it is supposed to be in "Early 2008" although with the VM site updating the site its a tad confusing.
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What generally happens with me is that some dude in India tells you they'll need to do some line tests and call you back, at which point they'll refund the cost of the call. Guess what happens next? clue: it involves sitting by a phone that doesn't ring.
Not sure how this will affect me - my speeds are down the pan anyway thanks to an over-subscribed UBR so less traffic throttling may make it worse I guess. I'm really starting to hate Virgin Media.
That is terrible I thought things couldn't get much worse but that has really hit the nail on the head. In this day it is so easy to download/upload that amount in no time at all.
I used to be so happy with Blueyonder, but everyday now i'm really thinking of changing over to adsl. For instance yesterday my internet was down near enough all day, rang up the status line & there was nothing about my area on it! Finally get back on at around 4:30pm & i'm throttled to 2mb straight away without doing a damn thing.
Poor service really really poor It is going to get much worse next year too :/
Edit: just read the cappings properly & to me it doesn't seem fair that 4mb get cut to the same as 2mb users & we're paying more than them! Utter pathetic in my opinon.
I thought things couldn't get much worse but that has really hit the nail on the head. In this day it is so easy to download/upload that amount in no time at all. I used to be so happy with Blueyonder, but everyday now i'm really thinking of changing over to adsl. For instance yesterday my internet was down near enough all day, rang up the status line & there was nothing about my area on it! Finally get back on at around 4:30pm & i'm throttled to 2mb straight away without doing a damn thing.
Poor service really really poor
It is going to get much worse next year too :/Edit: just read the cappings properly & to me it doesn't seem fair that 4mb get cut to the same as 2mb users & we're paying more than them! Utter pathetic in my opinon.
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I had adsl for 3 years and i much prefer this, no caps for starters there are very few adsl services that offer what vm do, i mean you could download 400gig if you wanted a month.
I was with entanet and they are about the best for allowance etc, but they still get poor speeds in the evenings, i was paying £29.99 month for 4 meg with a 45gig peak hrs cap and plenty of off peaks though, but this doesn't really bother me and i get 20meg for £22 month, i always getting 2.3mbs in the day and the slowest i have had in the evenings so far is 1.7mbs download
I was with entanet and they are about the best for allowance etc, but they still get poor speeds in the evenings, i was paying £29.99 month for 4 meg with a 45gig peak hrs cap and plenty of off peaks though, but this doesn't really bother me and i get 20meg for £22 month, i always getting 2.3mbs in the day and the slowest i have had in the evenings so far is 1.7mbs download
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Pinging www.jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=54
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=54
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=54
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=54
Ping statistics for 82.133.85.65:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 12ms, Maximum = 16ms, Average = 13ms
And that's over wireless!