Virgin Media New Traffic Management

I can't believe it used to be 20Gigabytes, their getting terrible and I have had issues with them for the last 6 months due to over subscription and network utilization, on a Weekend I get about 10mbps and I am on a 100mbps FTTC service and now they do this. I think I am leaving to go with plusnet!
 
sid said:
Lets see if this has any effect on the users who are experiencing packet loss issues.
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I'm hoping it will thanks to the aggressive upload caps, bit of a coincidence but my latency dropped instantly at midnight to the best i've seen in ages.



Still crap compared to FTTC but my areas not had the upload upgrade yet.
 
It does seem more reasonable that way; I thought that cap was only per hour. The only time I have reached that cap was when re downloading Battlefield 3. Hopefully this will clear up their over utilization issues, I have had to take up this problem with them many times though and the problem is that the service is never there when I want to be able to use it. I am not some crazy file-sharer or download junkie. I just want to sit down at the weekend and download a video game or a film I've purchased and I am unable to do that. I mite aswell go back to renting from the rental shop; which they've mostly all shut down thanks to streaming. Although I rented and streamed the Hobbit which was actually a good experience lol.

I do like virgin media and I was getting an amazing service until I upgraded to 100mbps I really want them to sort it out though and I shouldn't have to downgrade my service back to 60mbps I should be able to get the full-speed available on my line. Admittedly at sometimes the network will reach very high utilization but it shouldn't every weekend they should have sorted something out by now.

I think when they uncap my upstream to 10mbps I will be a little bit happier, and still waiting on my free upgrade to 120mbps but what good will that do in an area that is 1500 lines oversubscribed!
 
I only really use the internet when im home from work, so my prime time is 6 - 11 on a good day. I just think the upload is a pile of monkey nuts. Im on a 60Mbs line and already virgin has an awful upload, reducing it is ridiculous. Uploading a video to youtube thats a couple of Gig would take ages. After the 1.2GB mark its going to be so sluggish as a slug i guess. Not a fan.
 
HecFam said:
I only really use the internet when im home from work, so my prime time is 6 - 11 on a good day. I just think the upload is a pile of monkey nuts. Im on a 60Mbs line and already virgin has an awful upload, reducing it is ridiculous. Uploading a video to youtube thats a couple of Gig would take ages. After the 1.2GB mark its going to be so sluggish as a slug i guess. Not a fan.
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+1

I wanted to get into uploading video games demonstrations to youtube but on 5mbps upload it just takes far too long and too much of my time.
 
Upload is a bit harsh, but the rest seems fine.

The speed reduction is less than the old model (which was 50%). Since everyone got a free doubling of their speed, then going over the limit will still give you a faster speed than what you were on before and you can download as much as you want.
 
well its become worse again. its gonna up from 9pm to 11pm. it used to be unrestricted after nine and now its to 11 which in my book is definitely worse
 
Nope, upload was 3-8pm and download was 10am-3pm then 5pm-10pm after the last revision a month or so ago, before that it was 4-9pm for the evening download. I think i've got that right anyway.
 
BuZ said:
What about 20Mb/s customers with a 1Mb/s upload. Formerly upgraded from 10Mb/s?
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Yeah I believe this is what my parents are on and would be interested in knowing, as I'll be going home for a few months over the summer!
 
So am I right in thinking, that if you exceed your download/upload limit the maximum time you will be throttled is 2 hours? Then things will reset as normal?
 
Flashheart said:
So am I right in thinking, that if you exceed your download/upload limit the maximum time you will be throttled is 2 hours? Then things will reset as normal?
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Sort of. Say for example if you upload 1500mb on the 120mb package you get throttled for an hour, if you upload a further 500mb in the next hour for a total of 2000mb in 2 hours you get throttled for another 2 hours, then if you keep uploading you get throttled for another 2 hours and on and on.
 
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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That's a poor defence though.
Downloading a game I can use like 12GB.
We pay for 100mb for a reason.

My streets line isn't even good enough for me to get what I pay for, and now they want to cap me? :p
 
I was considering going back to virgin when I move house end of july.

THe idea was to setup a modest game server for me and about 10 others. Do we think these upload limits are going to hinder me?

How much bandwidth does a server get through in an hour?
 
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