Virgin and FTP (heavy uploading)

[radar19]

Hi all


I'm a student at uni on a video course dealing with a lot of HD footage. Now I've found the best way to back up this footage is via FTP as its away from any issues that may arise on my home machine and its a lot cheaper than forking out for a boat load of hard drives. However since the footage is in HD the files can range of 20Gb and up. I'm on the 50mb connection so the upload speeds are fine, its just I'm worried that Virgin arent going to like it if I'm uploading Gb's of data at a time. I understand that all P2P traffic which includes FTP are monitored and restricted at peak times but the fair usage policy fails to mention anything about FTP specificly.



Any advice would be extremely helpful :smileyhappy:

 

[PistolPete]

Not sure if FTP comes under the P2P traffic category of not. The VM site says:

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.

Either way, with the current 1.75Mb/s upload a 20GB file is gonna take over 24hours to upload. If your area has the upload increase, its still gonna take 9hours. :-/
If they do include FTP in the P2P category, this figure then jumps a fair bit.

 

[radar19]

I believe we now have the 5mb upload speed. The time it takes doesnt worry me, its just if Virgin will start sending letters about the usage.

 

[Al Vallario]

See the Traffic management for customers with faster uploads page on the Virgin Media website. As far as I'm aware this management isn't restricted based on the type of traffic (P2P, etc.), it applies across the board.

Upload more than 6GB between 3-8PM and the upstream will be limited 65% for 5 hours. Done

Edit: 6GB is equivalent to around 2 1/2 hours at 5Mbps with no overheads at all, so it's really not that unreasonable