Virgin Media rate limit usenet access - even on 50 smegs

PistolPete · 14 Apr 2011 at 18:06

radar19 said:
I've checked, there appears to be no traffic restriction in my area. Torrents ran at full speed until my room mate messed about with the router.

Some areas may not have it yet - from what I've read it's being rolled out to an undisclosed schedule. Also, it's not a case that you get the P2P/Usenet throttling once you get the upload increase as many are affected and aren't even out of planning for the upload increase.

antijoke · 14 Apr 2011 at 21:30

Cr416 said:
Just been having a small argument about this with anticonscience , VM only limit p2p/newsgroups on the 50mb service. Nothing else is affected by bandwidth management:

Lol, sorry if I was snappy earlier, just Virgin are annoying me at the moment.

mp260767 · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:53

"This policy does not impact any applications other than Peer to Peer and Newsgroups, so things like making calls via Skype......are unaffected."

have to say i think their telling porkies here, recently started using skype again and since i've moved to virgin the call quality is showing as medium and a lot of the time it shows as low.

people i speak too havent changed their isp's, also seen a few posts on other forums that they don't seem to have got things running properly.

Sp00n · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:59

Cr416 said:
Just been having a small argument about this with anticonscience , VM only limit p2p/newsgroups on the 50mb service. Nothing else is affected by bandwidth management:

Source: http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy.html#table

Other packages are restricted and listed on said page.

Yea ok it makes sense now but I hate that page, the table clearly shows nothing against 50mbit but reading through file sharing and the statement at the beginning "That can depend on the broadband package you're signed up to and the type of online applications you are using." it did confuse me and I think it could be explained better.

Ah well, I'm happy for now until they start throttling VPN traffic :x

PistolPete · 15 Apr 2011 at 14:16

Sp00n said:
Yea ok it makes sense now but I hate that page, the table clearly shows nothing against 50mbit but reading through file sharing and the statement at the beginning "That can depend on the broadband package you're signed up to and the type of online applications you are using." it did confuse me and I think it could be explained better.

Ah well, I'm happy for now until they start throttling VPN traffic :x

At which point I'm off. I appreciate it's a not a business connection, but I do work from home at least once a week instead of the daily 130 mile round trip into the office. Without decent VPN throughput I'd be screwed.

Mr Krugga · 15 Apr 2011 at 15:45

mp260767 said:
"This policy does not impact any applications other than Peer to Peer and Newsgroups, so things like making calls via Skype......are unaffected."

have to say i think their telling porkies here, recently started using skype again and since i've moved to virgin the call quality is showing as medium and a lot of the time it shows as low.

people i speak too havent changed their isp's, also seen a few posts on other forums that they don't seem to have got things running properly.

Isn't Skype running on P2P network though?

Clown · 15 Apr 2011 at 16:29

Sp00n said:
No it doesnt, Bethere manage it just fine.

The problem is... they say they don't, when they clearly do.

Be* used BLOCK the SMTP port (21?) which they did without telling anyone.

Cr416 · 15 Apr 2011 at 20:20

Sp00n said:
Yea ok it makes sense now but I hate that page, the table clearly shows nothing against 50mbit but reading through file sharing and the statement at the beginning "That can depend on the broadband package you're signed up to and the type of online applications you are using." it did confuse me and I think it could be explained better.

Ah well, I'm happy for now until they start throttling VPN traffic :x

It has to be said that it does suck, even though they do state that they limit these types of usage it does not state by how much and for how long. Maybe a quick call to them :cool:

anticonscience said:
Lol, sorry if I was snappy earlier, just Virgin are annoying me at the moment.

lol it's good to be set strait every once in a while mate

Thanks anyway.

mp260767 · 15 Apr 2011 at 22:08

Mr Krugga said:
Isn't Skype running on P2P network though?

not sure tbh i've been trying to find out, but my isp is the only thing thats changed, not sure why my quality should be showing so badly if it isnt that

.

cakeyjake · 20 Apr 2011 at 19:10

for 2 weeks I been limited to 5mbps on 20mb connection only through newsbin ports. port 443 worked a treat thx

lookitsjonno · 19 Nov 2011 at 22:25

so glad i found this, ta