Virgin Media Discussion Thread

SkeeterUK said:
Thanks crink for trying as i said in my previous post. ;)
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Fairy muff :) :p

I'm curious about this "both" setting. It shouldn't have any effect on ping & like mentioned, I'm usually lazy on my home network setup - so just setup all rules as both, regardless.

When I last used the monitor... there must have been a dozen+ rules setup as "both".

If you feel like the test, once the graphs populated a bit - could you switch that rule back to both and see if it kills it?
 
I think this all happened i.e started not working when i tried to wing off upnp for utorrent and use port forwarding instead as it was safer. Port forwarding did work but at the expense of the monitor which spoon had the fix for. :)
 
crinkleshoes said:
Especially confusing after personal experience - does it only affect certain hubs and not others?
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I honestly don't know, if you say you've set up the protocol as "both" before and it's worked then I would assume it's not always the case. This was the problem I had when I first set up my TBB graph over a year ago and that was the suggested fix, maybe it's a current firmware thing, how long have you been running yours in modem mode?

So it would seem problem solved, we've all learnt something today so brohugs all round?
 
Only 6-8 weeks or so.

I used the shubs port forwarding with R30 firmware & the release prior to that. That's how long I've have the shub.

I'm curious now - I'll fiddle with mine later - haha :D



*kisses*

(oops :p)
 
A reboot of the superhub seems to have sorted the huge yellow in my think broadband graph! Virgin tech uk support were great and very happy. Adv me that the UBR is not under huge congestion.
 
When does VM's throttling of speed start - from the point you go over the DL/UL limits?

I.e. say I went over at 4pm - does the throttling stop at 9pm?...even if I kept on downloading after 4pm?
 
It starts the moment you go over the limit for that period and remains throttled for 5 hours regardless of time.

It's a fair limit and much better than other providers out there although you need to be on 50Mb at least to not feel the pinch. At 50Mb you get dropped to 3MB/s which is just fine.
 
mrk said:
It starts the moment you go over the limit for that period and remains throttled for 5 hours regardless of time.

It's a fair limit and much better than other providers out there although you need to be on 50Mb at least to not feel the pinch. At 50Mb you get dropped to 3MB/s which is just fine.
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I was told by a Virgin Engineer who had the same connection as me (60mb after the upgrade) that I shouldn't get capped. He never does. Saying that, the only time I've come across a cap was when I downloaded 500gb of Steam games non stop on Virgins 10mb service. Oops.
 
50/60 didn't used to have a cap but now all connections has fair usage applied and have done for some months.
 
To be fair. Nobody should really be hitting the can regularly. Its not normal to do so much downloading on a daily basis.

Of course if a new game comes out then yes you could hit the cap but you are normally allowed to download the game clients a few days before release so you could spread the download over different periods :)
 
Virgin's new FUP/TMP seems totally fair and I hope it alleviates some of the congestion.
 
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Not since they introduced it for XXL members, 20gb off peak and 10gb peak, with a 50% reduction in speed per day is pretty reasonable if you ask me.
 
Ahhh I thought it was something new. My area is still congested even with this. Theres been a fault raised since March 6th and its due to be fixed around mid-July.... Still nothing as yet though (BS7 area)
 
Sp00n said:
Not since they introduced it for XXL members, 20gb off peak and 10gb peak, with a 50% reduction in speed per day is pretty reasonable if you ask me.
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Yeah - if it has to be there, then it's not the worst FUP around, that's for sure.

If it helps general congestion during peak hours, then I'm all for it :)

I'd rather have my connection limited to 60mbit but usuable than have a 120mbit terrible connection...
 
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