Virgin Media hosted STEAM Content server

gazzab said:
It doesn't even have to be peak hours for me, they always seem to throttle my downloads no matter what the time is
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Phone Virgin Media up and explain this to them. This happened to a friend that luckily knew someone that worked within Virgin Media. He assumed that someone had cloned his MAC through advice from the guy who worked within VM and asked technical support if they could give him a new MAC due to advice given. Well they changed his MAC and now he doesn't get limited any more unless it's from his own doing. This was in Scotland mind you but it's worth a try.
 
Would only be useful if it didn't count to your bandwidth limits and isn't limited when you have gone over it.

Otherwise, what is the benefit to us?
 
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Ugh, this doesnt sound very good at all (DL speeds I mean)!

Im on BT Infinity at the mo and their service is brilliant, Ive never noticed any banwidth throttling and my ping is aprox 15-24. I may be moving house in a couple of months, so Ive been looking at possible providers as BT Infinity isnt available in that area yet.

Do the majority of BB providers do this? Anyone know any that doesnt throttle bandwidth but has a reliable connection?
 
24MARK24 said:
Ugh, this doesnt sound very good at all (DL speeds I mean)!

Im on BT Infinity at the mo and their service is brilliant, Ive never noticed any banwidth throttling and my ping is aprox 15-24. I may be moving house in a couple of months, so Ive been looking at possible providers as BT Infinity isnt available in that area yet.

Do the majority of BB providers do this? Anyone know any that doesnt throttle bandwidth but has a reliable connection?
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WHAT IN THE NAME OF BLUE MOON CHEESE ARE YOU ON ABOUT?
 
Gimpymoo said:
What speed are you on?

You get your full download bandwidth from Steam at all times of day?

Most users do not, especially at certain times of day hence why this would be usefull.
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I'm with VM 50meg, get top speeds all the time. Downloaded Portal 2 the other night in one go, no drops in speed and it's big download.
 
Unless I play the "content server roulette" game, I for one cannot guarantee to max out my available bandwidth at certain times of day on Steam.
 
Limpnoodle said:
**** off bull ****
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i can pull 2mb/s on a torrent at will aslong as i dont go over the traffic shaping caps.

i have yet to see my internet throttled on downloads p2p or otherwise purely because of the content type.

people are more than likely confusing traffic shaping and throttling
 
24MARK24 said:
Sorry if I wasnt clear enough! :confused:

I was talking about the throttling of bandwidth, which a lot of people seem to be having trouble with on Virgin broadband.
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the throttling isn't the problem.

The problem is that most VM users with 50 mb and 100mb connections have much more bandwidth than the steam server can possibly cope with it.

It can't give everybody connected to the server their full bandwidth, because at the end of the day, the server you are connected to has an internet connection, and that connection has a maximum upload speed it can achieve.

If we could get our own server, not used by the rest of the riff raff downloading off steam, it would free up lots of bandwidth that we could use to get full speed :D

Not only that, with it being all within Virgins Network, it would save on the load we put on their external network too.

When its quiet, you can get full speed. But the issues is that during busy times of the day, the server you are connected to is simply too busy to give you full speed.

If you want to know more about what ISPs throttle and how they do it, your best off starting a whole new thread in the networks forum. Virgin offer 10mb, 30mb, 50mb, and 100mb connections. The 10mb and 30mb connections have throttling. The 50mb and 100mb do not.
 
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MrLOL said:
If you want to know more about what ISPs throttle and how they do it, your best off starting a whole new thread in the networks forum. Virgin offer 10mb, 30mb, 50mb, and 100mb connections. The 10mb and 30mb connections have throttling. The 50mb and 100mb do not.
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That's why I want a VM content server, it shouldn't count towards the fair use limits. I'm on their rubbish size M downloads, meaning I get 10Mb/s. But if I download 1500MB between 10am-3pm then I get dropped to 2.5Mb/s for 5 hours. And if I download 750MB between 4pm-9pm then I also get dropped to 2.5Mb/s for 5 hours.
So yeah, being able to download games/updates from a VM content server without being affected by these limits (Since it all stays on the VM network so shouldn't really count towards it), it would be awesome.
 
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