Virgin Media New Traffic Management

I never knew they had so many different packages, that's insane. Seems a shame to cap the upload at all when it's so bad as well.
 
Plusnet, Sky and BT FTTC are lot better than rubbish Virgin Media nowaday with UNLIMITED and less traffic management but these may soon be changing in future once BT had completed the whole nationwide FTTC in 2015/6 and the network could not cope with it, only time will tell.
 
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PhillyDee said:
Then schedule any larger downloads for through the night. Why do you even need to download 4.5gb through the day?
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Quite easily hit if you want to play a new steam game, by the time you've downloaded half the game you've probably hit the two hour threshold amount so get the 40% reduction in speed.
 
Wow that is a fair bit stricter than it was before :/

What annoys me is that it applies everywhere regardless of whether it is needed or not.

e: How is everyone reading that? Take the 60Mb package, there is a 30% reduction at 3600MB and then the 40% hits when? 900MB later or 4500MB later?
 
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Well the good thing is, they have got rid of the week day daytime traffic shaping. The new one only covers 1600-2300. So you can schedule your d/l between 2300-1600 :)

That's a better change if u ask me, unless they aint telling us about any week day daytime shaping.
 
Clav said:
Wow that is a fair bit stricter than it was before :/

What annoys me is that it applies everywhere regardless of whether it is needed or not.
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Stricter than before. Unless i'm reading wrong. It looks to me that we gain an extra 7 (SEVEN) hours of unrestricted downloading?
 
Worse that the previous STM, hopefully ASA will stop them advertising there top speeds and make people aware of the minimum speeds they can get.
 
djkav said:
Stricter than before. Unless i'm reading wrong. It looks to me that we gain an extra 7 (SEVEN) hours of unrestricted downloading?
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Well the speed cap before was always 40% now it is down to 30%. If you are someone that only downloads during those times (like I guess the majority of normal users) it is stricter. The unrestricted day time may not make up for people unwilling to leave their Pc's on whilst at work or whatever.
 
Poolybit said:
Quite easily hit if you want to play a new steam game, by the time you've downloaded half the game you've probably hit the two hour threshold amount so get the 40% reduction in speed.
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Most games are downloaded compressed and then decompressed, I have done this many times and never hit a speed reduction. I have however when downloading many many steam games after a reinstall. Fair enough!
 
Caged said:
I never knew they had so many different packages, that's insane. Seems a shame to cap the upload at all when it's so bad as well.
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I think it looks like so many packages because they haven't completed they speed upgrade program ... so the pairs XL30/XL60, XXL50/100, 100/XXL120 are effectively the same packages in areas that are pre/post speed update.

Anyway, I'm on XL60 and as I was happy on XL20 (as I was still on the old modem that didn't to XL30 as I didn't want a superhub until they added modem mode) the being throttled to 42 or 36Mbs doesn't seem to be an issue!
 
Holy.. those upload limits are awful. I'm on 120/12 and the 1500mb limit is like 20 minutes worth of use on the upstream.
 
I don't find it that bad really, I mean i'm all in favour of the more aggressive upload caps as that is what kill latency for VM users.

Sure some of the size triggers are a little low, but least it's only for an hour instead of five like it was before.

I mean on 120mb if you hit the first cap your speed is reduced to 84mb and then if you keep downloading and hit the second cap your limited to 72mb for two hours.

So for most users they will see a speed decrease for an hour, while those leeching 24/7 will be crippled (least P2P will!) and tbh i'm fine with that if it leads to a more stable connection.
 
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