is this the virgin media traffic shaping i've been hearing about?

Slinky1989 · 17 Jun 2007 at 22:36

Basically my big brother is downloading vista ultimate (via microsoft file transfer manager) using some license his work gave him (i don't understand it) onto his pc because of the systems he has to work with.

Now at the start he was getting about 400kb/s but over the past hour or so it's gradually come to a complete stop at just 10.3mb out of 2.5gb remaining.

It's still running according to task manager but just refuses to download anything.

We're on virgin media 4mb cable package.

thanks

doodah · 17 Jun 2007 at 22:42

Was just about to ask the same thing, earlier today download speeds wouldnt go above 70k/sec. Just done a speed test and got 271kbps/192kbps (dl/up) and im on 8MB - WTF are Virgin playing at? I can understand speeds may be slower at this time but there taking the mick! :mad:

Slinky1989 · 17 Jun 2007 at 22:47

I know, my brother's pretty peeved aswell as with just 10meg to go out of 2000 I'd be pretty annoyed too. In fact I am as I wanted to see dreamscene :mad:

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Tried suspending and resuming again but pressed suspend and now it won't resume again. It just says "status: suspending".

edit: just restarted the manager. All is well!

IGNORE

ScoobyDoo · 18 Jun 2007 at 09:23

Think your just having poor speeds for some reason.

Traffic shapping kicks in when you download over 3gb between 4pm - midnight.
If your trying to download outside these times you should be getting full speed.

You are only reduced in speed if you download over 3gb between these times and you are only reduced in speed for 4hrs.

monkeysmith · 18 Jun 2007 at 09:27

Is that 3gb per night or 3gb per month between those times?

Jabbs · 18 Jun 2007 at 10:04

The Technical stuff

Here are some details about the different thresholds for each broadband service:

Broadband Size: M
During peak times, the top 5% on the Size: M package download at least 350MB of traffic each.

Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till midnight) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed – their download speed will be set to 1Mb, with their upload speed set to 128Kb. This will last for 4 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.

Even if a Broadband Size: M user has their speed temporarily traffic managed, they can still download over 1,000 music files per day.

Broadband Size: L
During peak times, the top 5% on the Size: L package download at least 750MB of traffic each.

Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till midnight) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed – their download speed will be set to 2Mb, with their upload speed set to 192Kb. This will last for 4 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.

Even if a Broadband: Size L user has their speed temporarily traffic managed, they can still download over 1,500 music files per day.

Broadband Size: XL
During peak times, the top 5% on the Size: XL package download at least 3GB of traffic each.

Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till midnight) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed – their download speed will be set to 5Mb, with their upload speed set to 256Kb. This will last for 4 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.

You have to be careful though if you was to use over your 3 gig(20meg obviously) at say 11.55pm you would then still be capped for 4 hrs, so even though it stops at 12midnight normally you will still be capped, this won't put me off going on cable when we move shortly, i will happily pay an extra £7 for 20 meg, and the shaping is no problem really its better than having caps trust me.

doodah · 18 Jun 2007 at 12:21

Somthing isnt right, it says im at 1.5Mb now - i have only downloaded 1.5Gb since late Sat night.

churned · 18 Jun 2007 at 20:47

I'm with virgin media and my pings while gaming go crazy during the day - on UK servers they jump around constantly from anything from 15 - 70, sometimes pings just spikes up to 250~ as well. This is only during the day, I get good pings at night, why is this?

stigggeh · 18 Jun 2007 at 22:31

churned said:
I'm with virgin media and my pings while gaming go crazy during the day - on UK servers they jump around constantly from anything from 15 - 70, sometimes pings just spikes up to 250~ as well. This is only during the day, I get good pings at night, why is this?

having a wild guess i would say that everyone is hammering the downloads through the day, so they dont have to download anything at peak times and risk being shaped?.