Virgin 50mb and Torrents

MikeWild74 said:
i'm convinced my Belkin n+ router is a major part of the problem, but i'm have lots of problems with virgin aswell.
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I've lived with crashing for years... eventually I found out it was the routers I had (Linksys cisco one then a Belkin). Fork out for a decent router that lets you send data down. I recommended a Dlink 655 on another thread, put near a trillion packets a day through it and it doesn't conk out.

I put around 3 billion RX and 1.5 billion TX through it a day, never have an issue and never had another conk out.
 
Yeah, it's the router. I had the same thing on virgin 20meg when I used torrents with a cheapish netgear router. The connection would die whenever it was under heavy load but a reboot would fix it. The instant I upgraded to a better router I never saw a dropped connection again, no matter how much I downloaded.

As for the throttling on virgin... yes it will kick in during peak hours if you've downloaded more than a few gig during the hours when they monitor (so at some times of night you can download huge amounts with no throttling).

Also, as for the warning letters, it was my understanding that you only got those if one of the anti-p2p companies forwards your IP to your ISP complaining that they saw your IP requesting a file thats under one of their clients copyrights. As far as I know, running an up to date IP blocker (like peerblock) will prevent (or greatly reduce) the chances of this hapenning, and you should never get a letter.

But currently being on the 20meg and thinking of moving up, I would love to know what sort of actual speeds you get on the 50meg line at what times of day? :)
 
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Stickman said:
But currently being on the 20meg and thinking of moving up, I would love to know what sort of actual speeds you get on the 50meg line at what times of day? :)
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i live in nw london and honestly, i get the full speed all the time. It was slightly ropey for the first couple of days but now it's great, wonderful, fantastic!!
 
The problem is ABSOLUTLY the router.
I used to own one of those Belkins and they are shocking once you do anything but look at web pages.
Essentialy they just cant deal with the ammount of connections required and just fall over.
As Azuse05 has said previously, you want either an Asus RT-N16 or a Netgear WNR3500L and put DD-WRT or Tomato custom firmware on there.
Either of those combinations will handle anything you could throw at it and then some.
 
unknownsock said:
Wow that really puts me off VM, after one simple indy download off steam and im throttled :rolleyes:
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They're the only company who are truly open and honest about their traffic management... that's why they got my money and 50mbit was installed this morning :P

That and they're the only company offering 50mbit... bt infinity is in the area - but 100GB/month cap is ridiculous for a 40mbit connection!

Venares said:
The problem is ABSOLUTLY the router.
I used to own one of those Belkins and they are shocking once you do anything but look at web pages.
Essentialy they just cant deal with the ammount of connections required and just fall over.
As Azuse05 has said previously, you want either an Asus RT-N16 or a Netgear WNR3500L and put DD-WRT or Tomato custom firmware on there.
Either of those combinations will handle anything you could throw at it and then some.
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Yeah - definitely a router-side problem

Potentially ethernet over powerline too... depending on exactly which netgear adapters are being used & the state of house wiring... but if that's bee ruled out, then it's the router.
 
I've had the same issue in the past and it was not the router as I removed it from the equation, have not seen the issue recently though.
 
snow patrol said:
i get the full speed all the time.
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Nice. When we moved into our new house, we noticed the fibre cabinet for the street was literally touching our front lawn... so there's only about 12 foot of copper needed. I can't wait to see what speed we can get when virgin media rolls out it's 100meg fibre-to-the-cabinet lines. :)
 
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crinkleshoes said:
100meg... as everyone else :P

lol
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i guess you meant "same as everyone else" ?

Not necessarily... you can't always get the full speed advertised, for various reasons (busy times, signal loss in the final copper section to the home, etc).

But nvm... going OT, don't want to hijack the thread.
 
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Stickman said:
i guess you meant "same as everyone else" ?

Not necessarily... you can't always get the full speed advertised, for various reasons (busy times, signal loss in the final copper section to the home, etc).

But nvm... going OT, don't want to hijack the thread.
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Very rare from what I've heard... you usually get the speed.

Obviously when conjestion is higher the speed is reduced... but that's the same with any connection and not specific to any cable/adsl
 
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