Truly unlimited D/U with atleast 50mb - what are the options?

h2009

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Hi there,
We all know that providers have in someway or another caps on their network, whether its throttling or hardcaps; but now I'm looking for a truly unlimited broadband provider which can supply atleast 50mb.

Does anyone have any ideas on how or who this could be done?

Thanks.
 
Virgin Media are pretty much the only option for 50 meg or more unless you're in the extremely small minority that can get BT FTTH. If you want no throttling or restrictions at all then you're not going to get it for any kind of money that a home user can afford. The only other option to explore is local wireless providers in your area.

At some point in the not too distant future, the FTTC/VDSL connections will be upgraded to "up to" 80 megabit, but I imagine not many lines will actually get the full 80 at all.
 
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StonedPenguin said:
There's no traffic management for 50mb and 100mb IIRC, It's only on the 10/20/30mb.
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not what there own website says

http://shop.virginmedia.com/broadband/up-to-50mb.html


Broadband: Virgin Media offers the fastest broadband download speeds widely available to UK consumers.
1Acceptable use policy: Acceptable use policy applies. Traffic Management operates from 4pm to 9pm and 10am to 3pm to ensure a consistent user experience.
 
enigma27 said:
not what there own website says

http://shop.virginmedia.com/broadband/up-to-50mb.html


Broadband: Virgin Media offers the fastest broadband download speeds widely available to UK consumers.
1Acceptable use policy: Acceptable use policy applies. Traffic Management operates from 4pm to 9pm and 10am to 3pm to ensure a consistent user experience.
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Customers with Broadband size: XXL (50Mb) – your downstream usage excluding file sharing traffic (see below) remains unaffected and we'll soon be increasing your upload speeds from 1.5Mb to 5Mb. However during peak times we'll need to slow you back to 1.75Mb if your upload usage is particularly high.


It is in place but its nothing like the TM systems in place for 10/20/30mb customers.
 
StonedPenguin said:
Customers with Broadband size: XXL (50Mb) – your downstream usage excluding file sharing traffic (see below) remains unaffected and we'll soon be increasing your upload speeds from 1.5Mb to 5Mb. However during peak times we'll need to slow you back to 1.75Mb if your upload usage is particularly high.


It is in place but its nothing like the TM systems in place for 10/20/30mb customers.
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Yes but what other things other than File sharing would you possibly want a 50mb connection for... speed is for downloading not browsing and thats what is shapped.
 
They only shape certain ports, which can be easily changed for the likes of Newsgroups. I have never been shaped for torrents or using port 443 on Supernews on my 30MB connection, excluding if I go over my download limit.
 
Thanks for your inputs; I was think VM but the traffic shaping is a problem; we actually rsync as well as full image backups, running across all our computers which backup's to 2 locations so our download and upload are very very high.
Although none of it is actually P2P (torrents), does my usage still count towards their throttling?

Typically for the last 5 month this is our core location usage:

1 - D: 97GB U: 41GB
2 - D: 200GB U: 35GB
3 - D: 300GB U: 25GB
4 - D: 420GB U: 44GB
5 - D: 300GB U: 30GB

Total: D: 1.3TB U:175GB

And incase your wondering what this is, its:
Full image backup's of network disks a clients
Video back files from IP cameras.

I should say this internet connection is for a small business - we manage security cameras and backup data. So we're trying to keep costs down and we all know at this economic time thats a must!

So I guess if I went with multiple VM lines - say 2 of them would I still be throttled back based on the usage?

Thanks
 
If you go for the 50MB package, your upload will be throttled after uploading a certain amount during peak times, but your download is completely unthrottled.

100MB, I'm not sure but I think its fully unthrottled, both down and up.
 
I'm afraid Im not in a FTTC area ; so VM is the only option for a fast speed.
What are the limits on the upload and during what times? I could possibly throttle my own connection between those time to prevent the limit; but it kinda going around the main issue.

But I can create a load balancing system with two WANS to help prevent the upload limits.
 
If balancing is in the question, look at 2x Be* Pro lines (or more). They have been trialling a bonded service too (not sure if it's been launched yet)
 
Was with virgin media had their 50Mb package although they say there is no limit they didn’t like me downloading 2TB in a month they were pretty good and just asked that I limited my downloading to non-peak times (9PM to 8AM) which I thought was fair.

Currently with BT have been for a couple weeks they seems pretty good not as fast as virgin I can’t find a fair usage policy with their 'unlimited infinity' packages which I’m sure there must be.
 
Just another note - i'm pretty sure VM prohibit the normal packages for business use...

Go look at business ISPs and talk about bonding, you may even be able to negotiate on price if you have agreements on when data will be transferred (time restrictions)
 
Nymins said:
They only shape certain ports, which can be easily changed for the likes of Newsgroups. I have never been shaped for torrents or using port 443 on Supernews on my 30MB connection, excluding if I go over my download limit.
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I'm using port 443 and thought I would test it out today but I am now limited to 500kb/s after being on 2000kb/s earlier up to the 3gb limit.

I am on 20mb VM
 
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