Thinking of goig to 50mb

chiefcrust · 27 Dec 2010 at 10:51

Thinking of upgrading to virgin media 50mb what is the download limit before they slow you down?

Duke · 27 Dec 2010 at 11:17

As far as I know if you're not in an area with the upgraded upload speed, there is no cap but if you are then this applies - http://www.virginmedia.com/myvirginmedia/faster_upload_traffic_management_table.php

Big thread on VM 50mbit here - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17923446

chiefcrust · 27 Dec 2010 at 12:19

Thanks

asim18 · 27 Dec 2010 at 18:07

They have started rolling out Traffic Management. To me it sounds as if it's already hit well over 50% of customers, regardless of receiving their upload upgrade.

It's PITA if you use rapidshare/usenet etc.. They limit you to a ridiculous 5Mb/s out of 50.

C64 · 27 Dec 2010 at 18:12

I wouldn't bother at the moment VM 50mb is all over the place for a lot of people.

5-12 pm = bad pings because they are throttling p2p in these hours.

The usenet limit is 10mb not 5 ? I still get 1100kb sec 5-12 pm.

I am considering downgrading as as far as I am concerned this connection is unusable for gaming 5-12 pm.

asim18 · 27 Dec 2010 at 18:20

C64 said:
The usenet limit is 10mb not 5 ? I still get 1100kb sec 5-12 pm.

They've cut me down to 5 on Usenet :mad:

I get about 620KB/s from 5pm to 12am.

cr@pbag · 27 Dec 2010 at 19:07

get be broadband 24meg unlimited and uncapped at all times plus it onlny cost 17:88 pm

Get be broadband 24meg unlimited and uncapped at all times plus it only costs £17:88 pm been with them 3 years now after switching from nt hell

Duke · 27 Dec 2010 at 20:18

cr@pbag said:
Get be broadband 24meg unlimited and uncapped at all times plus it only costs £17:88 pm been with them 3 years now after switching from nt hell

Guessing he is on either 10 or 20mbit with VM so not sure why that would help.

chiefcrust · 27 Dec 2010 at 20:30

Currently on 10mb and can go up to 50mb for another £8 a month with an offer from virgin media so that's what's making me think about changing

Rizo-UK · 27 Dec 2010 at 20:41

Another vote for BE unlimited. Pulling 100gb per night recently, no let up in speed, pulling a consistent 14mbps down

Damn HD content is so big but the quality is much better than normal divx's.

C64 · 27 Dec 2010 at 22:50

Vm is a lottery some people get great speeds and suffer no issues.
Personally 99% of the time i have gotten 50mb 1.5 upload but lately like the last few months gaming is laggy 5-12pm every single day.