Get capped a couple minutes before fair-use period ends.

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So here I am waiting for Shogun 2 to update (2,129MB), and I specifically do not let it update between 4 and 9 too much so I don't annoy virgin's fair use limit of 750MB. In the last half hour I let it do some updating to start up the download, it hits over 800MB whilst I'm making cheese on toast, I come back at 9:02 to find that I am capped.

Isn't that taking a little pee? Now do I have to wait for their enforced 5 hours of 75% speed?

Edit: Yeah Virgin.
 
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Yes.. Yes you do..
I had the same problem patching a certain warcraft world game.
Its such a joke.

Although tbf 75% speed reduction on my 30Mb line still leaves me with like 8Mb.

I take it you are on 10Mb?
 
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CaptainRAVE said:
Internet in this country sucks.
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No the fact that they oversubscribe their services and then have to throttle traffic just so their UBRs can keep up with the influx of people. Maybe if they actually subscribed what they could handle instead of 3x that ammount then there would be no problems.
 
no capping on the provider in with, Bethere. not slowing you down ever, little more expensive than other providers. but for a static ip and no throttling 22 pound to me is fantastic. Great after service too.
 
23JMZ07 said:
No the fact that they oversubscribe their services and then have to throttle traffic just so their UBRs can keep up with the influx of people. Maybe if they actually subscribed what they could handle instead of 3x that ammount then there would be no problems.
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You say no, then agree with me :confused:
 
Assuming the op is a virgin user, you can actually avoid the caps if you use a tomato router with a the virgin script on it. The catch is you have to use qos (which can take a day or two of tinkering to perfect but after that you load the script, edit the cap numbers and reboot. The router counts all the data and adjusts the qos when you near the cap by slowing the lower classes which are downloads and things like hd video.

Obviously Be is the ideal isp :), but doing the above does at least mean you don't have to worry about be capped for hours and you can still brows the web/game while downloads are limited. When the time ends e.g. 9.01 they'll return to full speed. Stops you being caught out by a steam update or someone downloading a large file at 8.59 :)

A fair bit of work for sure, but I've yet to se anyone who's persevered and got it working go back: http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=60173&highlight=virgin
 
Azuse05 said:
Assuming the op is a virgin user, you can actually avoid the caps if you use a tomato router with a the virgin script on it. The catch is you have to use qos (which can take a day or two of tinkering to perfect but after that you load the script, edit the cap numbers and reboot. The router counts all the data and adjusts the qos when you near the cap by slowing the lower classes which are downloads and things like hd video.

Obviously Be is the ideal isp :), but doing the above does at least mean you don't have to worry about be capped for hours and you can still brows the web/game while downloads are limited. When the time ends e.g. 9.01 they'll return to full speed. Stops you being caught out by a steam update or someone downloading a large file at 8.59 :)

A fair bit of work for sure, but I've yet to se anyone who's persevered and got it working go back: http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=60173&highlight=virgin
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Oh wow, that's great, I'll give that a shot soon then. It's rare for me to be caught out by a cap, but it does happen and it does get me really annoyed, so this may help for the time being. Thanks :D
 
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