Virgin introduce morning traffic caps

Oh dear. Very glad I left them when I did.

I can understand that there are immense demands on their cable infrastructure when people use their connections freely, but the fact they have clearly expanded to a point where they can't support their customers with the connections many seem to want and yet still advertise their service as "unlimited" is pretty poor form, imo.

They are investing massively in their cable updates, though it must be said. It remains to be seen if they will ever be able to implement a decent, uncapped and unshaped service after their 50Mb/s roll-out is completed. If they can, I might even consider going back to them, notwithstanding how utterly inadequate I found their customer service when things went wrong.
 
afraser2k said:
The daytime limits are new for the downstream aren't they? It was only upstream before that if I remember correctly.
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It's been like it as mentioned for about a year or so now.

I think all they've done is redone the chart on the page linked to higher up to make it a little clearer (IIRC it used to have the upload limits separate), and added the information for the new M 10mbit service level (the one the old M 2mbit users are being moved to).
 
Im on 20Mb, and 6GB limit in the morning, and 3 GB in the evening, and unlimited from 9pm to 10am, and 3pm to 4 pm (so over half the day unlimited). is perfectly reasonable IMO.
 
It's unreasonable when you want to rent an HD movie from xbl marketplace or iTunes and it doesn't pull it off. It's also unreasonable to be limited to some stupid curfew by someone else, I've run in to occasions when I need to download a large file really fast but it ruins that idea because of these damn caps.

What they have in the US is a "throttling" service. It is the same here, except they falsely lead the customers to believe they get 20Mbit all the time :)
 
As stated, been like this for ages and still doesn't cause me any problems and I download a lot.

All it does it ensure you schedule your large downloads for overnight which isn't a big problem. Even with the limits I can still download around 130GB a day or 4TB a month. Love to see how many of these alternative, and so called "unlimited", ISPs would allow you to do that with impunity :rolleyes:
 
Yes there's an hour "gap" between 3pm and 4pm.

It's not ideal but then virtually all ISPs have limits of some kind in place and even those that don't still have "fair usage" clauses in their terms and conditions which are vague and could be brought to bear on heavy users without any warning or fore-knowledge of what is permissible.

I'd much rather have the system VM use than a fixed cap per day or month. As I said, it's not hard to schedule large downloads for off-peak periods and, if it keeps the network "clear" during peak periods so my "normal" activities don't suffer, then I'm all for it.

There are rumours that they will be moving from this type of system towards a proper traffic shaping system in the future, primarily to kerb activity such as bittorrent which is the real scourge of the 'net.
 
Werewolf said:
It's been like it as mentioned for about a year or so now.

I think all they've done is redone the chart on the page linked to higher up to make it a little clearer (IIRC it used to have the upload limits separate), and added the information for the new M 10mbit service level (the one the old M 2mbit users are being moved to).
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I didn't know downstream was monitored during the day so the new chart is much clearer now.

Just means I need to make sure scheduling is setup properly. :)

Wonder if they'll move to application management like rumours suggest?
 
I have noticed this throttling for some time now, as I download a lot of Linux distros, some of them are over 4GB's, I soon learned to download them overnight.
Since using the night for big downloads I have not noticed much slowing down.
 
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