Ok so... Who wants my steam account?

Castiel · 30 Dec 2010 at 00:59

asim18 said:
It is shaped from 5PM to midnight on weekdays and midday to midnight on weekends. There is just no debate here.

Not for anything other than P2P....

virgin said:
We moderate the total volume of file sharing traffic on our network between 5pm and midnight on weekdays and midday and midnight on weekends. This policy is restricted to Peer to Peer ("P2P") applications and Newsgroups (which are commonly used to distribute large amounts of data)

This policy does not impact any applications other than Peer to Peer and Newsgroups, so things like watching iPlayer, online gaming, making calls via Skype, downloading music tracks from iTunes or streaming them from Spotify and sending an email or normal browsing are unaffected.

It's important to remember that these traffic management policies only apply at peak times when speeds are most likely to be affected by people using more than their fair share. Outside of peak times we do not manage traffic."

asim18 · 30 Dec 2010 at 01:01

Castiel said:
Not for anything other than P2P....

That's exactly what I said in the first place!!!

asim18 said:
They haven't rolled it out completely yet. So some users are still fine . For those that are being shaped, I'm 100% certain they do it for at least NNTP and torrent traffic.

Goodness me.

Dunks · 30 Dec 2010 at 01:03

Steam isn't P2P.

asim18 · 30 Dec 2010 at 01:04

Dunks said:
Steam isn't P2P.

Neither is NNTP or Rapidshare

People have been reporting traffic shaping on Steam and Rapidshare.

Castiel · 30 Dec 2010 at 01:09

asim18 said:
That's exactly what I said in the first place!!!

Goodness me.

Interestingly it apparently doesn't apply to 50mb and 100mb packages UNTIL you receive the improved upload speeds.

asim18 · 30 Dec 2010 at 01:10

Castiel said:
Interestingly it apparently doesn't apply to 50mb and 100mb packages UNTIL you receive the improved upload speeds.

I haven't received the upload speed upgrade and it most definitely applies to me and thousands of others like me. Not apparently, most definitely.

Castiel · 30 Dec 2010 at 01:15

asim18 said:
I haven't received the upload speed upgrade and it most definitely applies to me and thousands of others like me. Not apparently, most definitely.

I've seen no port throttling at all. I'll call them tomorrow and if they've changed my t&c's ask for a reduction or cancel.

asim18 · 30 Dec 2010 at 01:18

Castiel said:
I've seen no port throttling at all. I'll call them tomorrow and if they've changed my t&c's ask for a reduction or cancel.

Are you even reading my posts?

asim18 said:
They haven't rolled it out completely yet. So some users are still fine .

Castiel · 30 Dec 2010 at 01:22

asim18 said:
Are you even reading my posts?

hmmm, the source info you supplied stated port shaping of p2p & Usenet was across their entire network.

Grow up with the big letters as well will ya! Jeez.

asim18 · 30 Dec 2010 at 01:25

Castiel said:
hmmm, the source info you supplied stated port shaping of p2p & Usenet was across their entire network.

It says nothing about their entire network. It says it applies to all their "packages". They haven't rolled it out to the entire network yet.

mrk · 30 Dec 2010 at 01:31

Hmm? I get full speed on Newsgroups on 20MB VM, well until I exceed the off peak quota of 3.5GB between 4 and 9PM anyway.

Edit*
Hmm.

Castiel · 30 Dec 2010 at 01:38

asim18 said:
It says nothing about their entire network. It says it applies to all their "packages". They haven't rolled it out to the entire network yet.

It clearly states "total volume of file-sharing traffic on our Network".

http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy.html

asim18 · 30 Dec 2010 at 01:49

I just cant be arsed anymore. I don't care if you don't believe me.

Go and refute these guys if you're so sure: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5...mb-port-throttling/td-p/161788/highlight/true

Or these guys: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17923446&highlight=traffic+shaping&page=50

ashatron · 30 Dec 2010 at 02:53

Morlock said:
There's nothing worse than a chavvy, little, hacking scrote.

Agreed.

iNPUt · 30 Dec 2010 at 03:07

Would be asim cheating, if you must try it do it on a new account, games are only a few quid ..

Never seen the point though, boring as well.

Oh yeah and VM 50Mbit is being ruined, swear they are doing in on purpose for their 100Mb launch, when half of Oxford leaves its get bad, good one VM, someone decent needs to buy them out.

Tefal · 30 Dec 2010 at 03:24

I hope a lerroy123 style "I'm A hacker" sig courtesy of a certain don will be added to asim

Tefal · 30 Dec 2010 at 03:27

Nitefly said:
Very generous of you, good stuff

Normally these accounts are phished etc an sold cheap on certain forums.

Also it's against steam T&C's (and I think ocuk's rules based on mm and pc games section threads) to transfer a steam account.

I wouldn't buy any games on the account either by the way in case asim ever decides to "reclaim" it though steam support.

GothicCorpse · 30 Dec 2010 at 03:37

grats whoever won it

nice one

Cupra · 30 Dec 2010 at 08:19

people who get vac banned are ******* and should be shot the cheating *********!!!!!

Robert · 30 Dec 2010 at 08:51

I have 50mb and the 5mb upload and have no shaping when using steam.

Intact ages ago it was reported that the QoS mis-identified WoW packets causing issues. This has been fixed, so I bet the steam issue has