Virgin Media Discussion Thread

I have moved from bristol to bromley and my 50mb is being installed on december 1st. In bristol i had 10mb and it was fine for my needs apart from wheb i wanted to buy a game on steam uf i downloaded it after 1500mb my speed would be cut to 2mb. This is thw main reason im going 50mb so i can download legal stuff on demand if im still speed capped i wont be impressed.

For those complaining using torrents and usenet for whatever purpose you have to expect it nowadays as 99% of those who use these do so for ilegal stuff. You complain they cap your internet you have paid for then want to download something you have not paid for. Being employex in the games industry this directly effects me.

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CraigN said:
Being employex in the games industry this directly effects me.
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Oh my....

You're saying that Virgin implementing a traffic shaping policy on Usenet and Bit-Torrent will cause an increase in your paycheck?

It most definitely will not. :)
 
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And this shaping is affecting legitimate p2p game distribution so you could argue it's harming developers? :p

The legalities of what you're downloading isn't important imo, the fact VM aren't being transparent with download limits (50mb users receiving letters etc) and that we now have throttling and shaping, VM have gone downhill massively this year.
 
That may well be the case and in my personal instance if I still experience problems after upgrading from 10 to 50mb then I will complain also.

My point is merely that most people complaining are probably downloading illegally which is hypocritical given they complain about not getting something they have paid for to steal something.

My paycheck is irrelevant, it will merely harm the number of developers/publishers who are willing to put a game out on the PC format.

Anyway this is a discussion about VM sorry I have caused it to sidetrack.
 
No no.. You do have a valid point. :) The key word is, as you said, "Probably". There's many legitimate uses for filesharing as well. Throttling it is not the right way to combat piracy, and it isn't their intention either. Their intention is just to ease congestion by throttling, to maximise profits.
 
I agre with Asim, VM are not throttling to combat piracy, after all it just takes longer to download the material so in an anti-piracy move its pretty pointless, instead VM are IMHO doing this to drive users to their new 100mb connection which will be the new 'unlimited' service.
 
Ah yes. We actually inquired about downgrading the TV to L and upgrading to 50Mb, but they said we'd lose a lot of discount and we'd end up paying more. So we just held on to the XL tv package.
 
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I done the trial for VM when they first introduced the 50mb...and its very fast,although imo it costs too much so i didnt keep it...im using the 20mb package and that does me fine :)

just wait until 100mb coems out...i suspect it wont be long.
 
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