Virgin Media new STM today

bulldog147 · 2 Apr 2012 at 11:45

It out now for new STM for all Virgin Media customers from today:

Can be found here: http://help.virginmedia.com/system/...&LANGUAGE=en&COUNTY=us&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE=Cable

antijoke · 2 Apr 2012 at 11:51

So if I am on 50Mbps (going to 100Mbps) I will have a daytime cap of 20Gb and an evening cap of 10Gb?

I can live with that.

banger9365 · 2 Apr 2012 at 12:00

i also can live with that ,caps until 21:00 ,i am still working at that time,cap on file sharing until 00:00,i miss it all again,but i do see the 10:00 to 15:00 caps

Swifty55 · 2 Apr 2012 at 12:45

anticonscience said:
So if I am on 50Mbps (going to 100Mbps) I will have a daytime cap of 20Gb and an evening cap of 10Gb?

I can live with that.

Indeed, considering the connection gets reduced to 50Mbps speeds.

I just hope it doesn't affect ping times...

janp · 2 Apr 2012 at 13:15

I was a little miffed at first, considering at the moment my 50mb connection has no limits. However, I re-read and I can live with being restricted from 100mb to 50mb.

paradigm · 2 Apr 2012 at 13:20

Pretty miffed to be honest. I enjoyed having no limits.

marc2003 · 2 Apr 2012 at 13:21

nice that 30Mb XL is only getting hit by 50% now instead of 75%.

wam7 · 2 Apr 2012 at 13:28

The 120Mb is not on there so I presume that is still unlimited.

paradigm · 2 Apr 2012 at 13:33

wam7 said:
The 120Mb is not on there so I presume that is still unlimited.

120 = the last column "100"

As 120 is just a speed upgrade of the vanilla "100" tier.

bulldog147 · 2 Apr 2012 at 13:40

marc2003 said:
nice that 30Mb XL is only getting hit by 50% now instead of 75%.

But will reduced to 15 Meg for 5 hours!

marc2003 · 2 Apr 2012 at 14:00

bulldog147 said:
But will reduced to 15 Meg for 5 hours!

and what is your point? as you don't seem to understand my post, try reading it again.... slowly.

bulldog147 · 2 Apr 2012 at 14:03

marc2003 said:
and what is your point? as you don't seem to understand my post, try reading it again.... slowly.

I mean 30 Meg reduce by 75% would be 22.5 Meg but now 30 Meg reduce by 50% will be lots worse off reduced to 15 Meg. I think my maths is correct ?

marc2003 · 2 Apr 2012 at 14:10

22.5Mbps is 75% of the full speed. so a 75% reduction would leave you with 7.5Mbps.

Nymins · 2 Apr 2012 at 14:10

bulldog147 said:
I mean 30 Meg reduce by 75% would be 22.5 Meg but now 30 Meg reduce by 50% will be lots worse off reduced to 15 Meg. I think my maths is correct ?

No thats not correct. 75% of 30MB is about 7.5MB. The 50% works out a lot better as you will only go down to 15MB. Essentially, you are getting double your capped rate back with the new STM.

IRLeetly · 2 Apr 2012 at 14:19

So from reading the VM site this is per day? by jingo! So a 10000MB cap daily on say XL60 just for things like p2p?

Thanks for the info, getting XL 60 on Wednesday.

MagicUK · 2 Apr 2012 at 14:20

on 50mb and been doubled to 100mb and if i use too much it just slows me back to 50mb so im perfectly happy with that.

Nymins · 2 Apr 2012 at 14:28

IRLeetly said:
So from reading the VM site this is per day? by jingo! So a 10000MB cap daily on say XL60 just for things like p2p?

Thanks for the info, getting XL 60 on Wednesday.

The allowances have always been daily. Its not just for p2p, its for everything though (any download or upload performed).

Kelt · 2 Apr 2012 at 14:39

IRLeetly said:
So from reading the VM site this is per day? by jingo! So a 10000MB cap daily on say XL60 just for things like p2p?

Thanks for the info, getting XL 60 on Wednesday.

Not per day, it's for the times shown. So 10000MB limit between 10-3. Then 5000MB between 4-9. Unlimited (subject to their fair useage policy) for the other times.

IRLeetly · 2 Apr 2012 at 14:55

Wow! and there was me always worried about going over.

So if iplayer and iTunes etc don't count towards it, is it the same for Steam? That would be my biggest allowance "hit", say a Summer or Xmas sale.

me227 · 2 Apr 2012 at 14:57

Sounds reasonable.