ISP throttling?

WalesOwl · 24 Oct 2010 at 22:04

So ISPs actually need to throttle people to "guarantee a quality service to other customers"?

I can't see how by throttling me from 1600KBs to 500KBs makes someone on another line be able to watch youtube any better to be honest.

WalesOwl · 25 Oct 2010 at 15:34

Well I'm with virgin, so they just hate me on one particular day and then forget the next

But thanks for the replies, I didn't know that the ISPs ran a deficit of bandwidth as it were.

WalesOwl · 27 Oct 2010 at 00:26

Why would they say that you have 50MB connectivity if you can literally use it for only a few hours before breaching their fair usage?

Seems a bit retarded that you are buying a 100W light bulb that is only 100W for 2 hours, then it will be 25W till the next day.

WalesOwl · 27 Oct 2010 at 15:14

Phil99 said:
Would you rather it was slower all the time? (Plus there's no throttling on 50Mbps VM connections )

Lol, yea I'm on the 20Mbps one. But I would rather they sell it on their average download speed considering I would be downloading a 100% of the time. This would give me a better idea of what speed I would actually get.