Virgin ADSL

doodah

doodah

doodah

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Are Virgin literally trying as hard as they can to be beyond useless?! I know during peak times speeds wont be that fast but last few days have been awful! My 8Mb ADSL is currently downloading @ 30k/sec, last few evenings its gone down (and stayed that way for a while ) to less than 10k/sec. I can't actually believe an 8Mb line downloading at dial up speeds. Anyone else having problems? Nout i can do as well as my mum is been really stubborn and wont leave Virgin!
 
I've got 4mb and it's been up to speed. My connection went like yours a couple of months ago but it's been fine now.

Could phone them up and see why this is?
 
Cable grinds to a halt too, they seem to hate the Bittorrent protocol as well, no matter how much encryption I use...

But regular browsing shouldn't slow down to 15KB\s, the throttle for my connection is supposed to be 128KB\s. :rolleyes:
 
Sabotage something to cause disconnects. Blame it on Virgin, order mac and leave.

I feel your pain, they were terrible 11 months ago when I left.
 
Virgin Media have a traffic management policy, as outlined here. The document only refer to the cable packages, but I assume they apply a similar policy for ADSL users. Basicaly, it means that if you download a certain amount in a day (not sure how much for ADSL), they cap the download and upload speeds between 4pm and midnight that evening (peak hours). Because I share my connection with the missus and we both work from home, we find that the download speed is pretty low by the evening (often 30-40KB/s).

Ginga
 
Are you sure it doesn't apply to ADSL? My DL speeds are always good in the AM, but rubbish in the PM (especially evening). I assumed it was traffic management, but maybe it's just line contention.

Ginga
 
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