Virgin Media Discussion Thread

I wont be uploading anyway, any downloads will be via Giganews SSL - but only uploading when gaming I guess, not sure i'll hit 6GB though haha
 
McDaniel said:
Just how bad is the fair usage/trafficking on 50MB?
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At the moment its nonexistent. 2 changes coming:
Usenet & p2p will restricted during certain hours (not sure on the details on this except its apparently restricted to 25% of bandwidth and it runs from the afternoon until midnight.) Not sure if I like this as they'll probably bend something else as well, along with it being a little vague.

Separate to this is the increase to 5mbps upload from 1.5mbps, but with this comes STM.
It's an upload only limit of 6000mb from 4pm until 9pm, go over this and you get limited to 1.75mbps upload for 5 hours. Some people have kicked off about the limits but I think they are very reasonable and could have included a download limit too.


Edit: Sorry for the duplication, I'm on my mobile and it took forever to type!
 
I can see from the virgin website that they limit the upload amount to 6GB between 3pm - 8pm, but there isn't any other restrictions, so you can download as much as you want all day long. But do they restrict Peer to Peer downloads on 50mb like they do on all of the other packages?

Thanks
 
Traffic shaping appears to be in place on all teirs now, P2P, Steam, Usenet, and several other things are being reported by various user all over the web and in VM's own usenet group.

5pm -12am Weedays and 12pm -12am on Weekends these will be slowed 25% or less of your maximum downloard rate.

E.g. Usenet Should see about 6.00MB/s for a good news provider but currently you are seeing aroung 900-1400Kbps if you are lucky.
 
Steam should absolutely NOT be traffic shaped. It's a legitimate use of bandwidth, plus PC game sales are increasingly becoming digital only. if Virgin traffic shape Steam then what is the point of me having broadband in the first place?

If they are traffic shaping Steam I shall be complaining to the Virgin, the ISPA, Ofcom, and Valve.
 
yeah I'm getting traffic shaping now as well for the last two days, it sucks onlly getting about 11 - 14meg on p2p now. I tried it at 6am thismorning and it was at 50meg in about 15 seconds:mad:

Well I wont be getting the 100 meg and may as well cancel the 50 meg and get 10 meg as I do all my downloading from 6 -12 and 10 meg only costs £5.

I'm sure this will loose virgin loads of customers and money. The only reason I am with virgin for my tv phone and broadband is because of what was the awesome broadband, if that goes I really can see no other reason for staying with virgin media as tv wise sky is probably better.
 
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Journey said:
Traffic shaping appears to be in place on all teirs now, P2P, Steam, Usenet, and several other things are being reported by various user all over the web and in VM's own usenet group.

5pm -12am Weedays and 12pm -12am on Weekends these will be slowed 25% or less of your maximum downloard rate.

E.g. Usenet Should see about 6.00MB/s for a good news provider but currently you are seeing aroung 900-1400Kbps if you are lucky.
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You can currently get round this if you chaange your port number...look up which others your newsgroup has, works with Astaweb.

Edit, Ignore the above...can i get out of my contract? when i signed up 50mb was not traffic managed, now it is...
 
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What the hell? Is this true? I have only had 50mb for a few months.

Just trying it now off Astraweb and I'm getting 3 MB/s average, seems very up and down though so could just be heavy traffic?
 
Nick1881 said:
What the hell? Is this true? I have only had 50mb for a few months.

Just trying it now off Astraweb and I'm getting 3 MB/s average, seems very up and down though so could just be heavy traffic?
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It's not heavy traffic, it's shaped if you are not using SSL encryption on port 443.
 
Dowloading from megaupload at full throttle! hehe

Still going to be a lonnnnng download
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Well that's enough for today lmao
 
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just purchased 50mb package today, as virgin are offering free installation and 1st 6 months half price! which over the year long contract averages out to £30.99 including their phone line.

Just wondered if anyone lives in the Sunbury (Surrey) area can give me an idea of if its over subscribed in his area?
 
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