Virgin Media hosted STEAM Content server
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Great idea, can't see it happening though.
Never gonna happen - PC gamers with Steam downloads just dont affect the VM network enough to really matter IMHO. When it does get busy due to game releases its just too infrequent for it to be a real cost benefit to VM or to a large cross-section of their customers
Hosting something like iPlayer is probably far more useful...
Its a nice idea but the benefits to VM arent readily transparent
ps3ud0
Hosting something like iPlayer is probably far more useful...
Its a nice idea but the benefits to VM arent readily transparent
ps3ud0
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Something positive, nothing major but at least heading in the right direction.
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5...ntent-server/m-p/174595/highlight/false#M8836
If you could all please forward the thread to your friends, family and pets so we can keep the thread at the top of the forum and feel free to add Kudos if you like
Pete_R said:
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5...ntent-server/m-p/174595/highlight/false#M8836
If you could all please forward the thread to your friends, family and pets so we can keep the thread at the top of the forum and feel free to add Kudos if you like
I'm with Virgin Media so will support it all the way.
Will have a look when I get in - it does my head in getting throttled when downloading a new game
EDIT: I can access that from work - posted!
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That may be a little premature
That said, I've had no problems with Virgin's service.
That may be a little premature
That said, I've had no problems with Virgin's service.
Must say they are pretty good.
The only thing that irritates me is them throttling legitimate traffic like Steam downloads. I don't download torrents or stuff from newsgroups anymore so have no issues really. Reliability is great, latency to gaming servers is nice and low.
While the estimate of £1-2k is quite far out I dare say, over time this would probably be fairly cost effective for them and for us customers because as you said, no peer traffic required for steam downloads and the CIDR restriction means they can limit it however they like. It would see a lot more use than a linux distro mirror I'm pretty sure, at minimum I would have thought virgin shifts a fair few hundred gigs / day from steam.
Mark Wilkin said:
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5...osted-STEAM-Content-server/td-p/171859/page/5
They don't seem to have forgotten about it at least
I hate Virgin for precisely that reason. I generally download at a speed of 1.2MB/s, they throttle my speed to 290KB/s after a few minutes downloading through Steam. I pay for all my games, I shouldn't have to leave my computer on overnight just to play the damn things
Being someone who plays games far far far too much I am glad virgin use traffic shaping in peak hours. I would much rather have to leave a steam download on overnight and basically have to wait until the next day to play a game to ensure that my connection is solid for multiplayer games. I downloaded around 20 steam games in the last year so know how it can be annoying but the tradeoff is fair.
Back to the OP would be great if they can work something out.
Back to the OP would be great if they can work something out.
You're lucky then. I still get a steady 200-300 ping at peak hours even when I'm not downloading. I haven't gone over the throttling limit in weeks, but I'm starting to think it doesn't make any damn difference because my connection gets raped all the same.
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Have you tried calling them? I had a similar issue a few years back, they said they'd investigate and found a fault somewhere - within a week I was back to pings of 30.