Virgin 50meg p2p throttling?

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Planning to get 50mb mostly because of the 5mb upload ( it is in my area), but I am a avid p2p user and I am wondering what kind of throttling I would get.

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None that i'm aware of.

I've sat watching the Torrents go at 2mb/s on an evenning before. Could be because i get my torrent application to randomly allocate a port however :D
 
All it says is

File sharing
At peak times we also slow down the speed of file sharing traffic – that's services like Limewire, Gnutella, BitTorrent and Newsgroup (Usenet) traffic. You will, of course, still be able to use these services, but downloads and uploads will take longer during these peak periods.
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which isn't really helpfull.

1.75mb/s upload is still far more than you can get with any ADSL2+ service so it doesnt matter. What he wants to know is what real effect it has


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Are they just throttling the major p2p ports? So changing ports would get around this?
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It seems to, but then finding something you can max out your 50Mb with is quite hard. Most websites can't do it. Most can only do around 20 at best.

So what seems quite normal and fast (getting 3mb/s) is possibly actually throtled from the possible 5mb/s

Difficult to say as the ammount of speed you get from each torrent varies.

Put it this way, don't worry. Your connection will be under utilised on a lot of websites / applications because there isnt enough badwidth / peers & seeds to max out your connection.
 
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My site is good (tl), so I really want to use to its max potential. I guess I need to wait for someone to come along and actually say they are getting 5mb on torrents.
 
The limits theyve set out seem to come out at between 65% and 75% of the original speed, this is based on the general throttling for m,l and xl customers plus the upload limit put in place on the xxl.
So I would say between the hours of 5pm and midnight which is when the p2p throttling is in place you will be looking at at least a 65% speed decrease when uploading to a p2p service.
I havent found and solid evidence for this limit but it seems like the sort of % they would use based on their other limits
 
My torrents (private tracker) easily hit 5MB/s and peak much higher. Upload is usually around 5-600KB/s.
 
I've just had this damm "upgrade" on my 10mb connection, used to download at 1.1MB/s now the max i can get is 150KB/s at Virgin's peak times :mad: it's not a solid speed either, goes up and down unlike before i had the "upgrade" to my upload speed it was solid as a rock at 1.1MB/s

Downloading with newsgroups not torrents.
 
Ive not had any issues since being upgraded to the 1mbit upload. Download on private trackers @ 1.2MB/s, upload @ 120KB/s

Virgin say there is no traffic managment on 50mb so I would say you wont see any issues
 
Like others, not had any problems with 50mbps and torrents here. Regularly see 5.9mb/s over a non-standard port and all encrypted connections.
 
In areas where they have capacity problems if you upload at 5Mb/s between 9am and 9pm they will cut you off.

I'm not even allowed to upload at 1Mb/s.

The upside is that between 9pm and 9am they don't seem to mind what you do.
 
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Even newsgroups are being "throttled" now on port 563.

They do seem to be making more noise about P2P downloads than they have in the past so if your moving to 50Mb, just for that, bear it in mind.
 
I also use (TL) in the unthrottled time it hits 5.9mbs in about 30 seconds - during peak times it takes much longer but most still hit about 3.5mbs. I love the new upload speeds as well but I only get a true speed of just under 4 meg upload... hope that helps
 
If you are using newsgroups and SSL encryption just use port 443 instead of the default 563. So far port 443 is not throttled.
 
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