Virgin Media Throttling, is the Threshold in the day or month?

[FreeStream]

Basically at uni we are thinking about upgrading because 4 guys 1500Mb in a day is fine during 4-9 but during a month its no hope.

Is it during the day or month?

Cheers!

 

[Daegan]

day

 

[Werewolf]

daily, resetting after a few hours of being throttled, or if you don't get throttled duirng the STM times.

 

[Talrinys]

Have to ask after reading this often, do you really have no alternatives to putting up with this in the UK?

 

[Azuse05]

Depends on the distance from the exchange, be can happily manage 20meg if your close and most llu will do 10meg to a decent distance, of course there's an un-shaped alternative offered by virgin, you just have to take a complete bundle. Virgins traffic management is archaic, but it's just a deliberate incentive to take the higher package.

Besides their shareholders have shifted their pennies into the other, more profitable, branches of the company, there's very little investment in their cable but since there's no real competition at 50meg in their areas, there's no incentive for virgin to stop.

 

[Dist]

Have to ask after reading this often, do you really have no alternatives to putting up with this in the UK?

VM 50Mb currently has no traffic management, but will do once it is fully deployed. STM is not realy as bad as it seems, as the average user will rarely get capped, and even if they do its only for 5 hours. Even with STM a 20Mb user could still download 600GB a day according to someone on one of the other threads on this subject.

Besides their shareholders have shifted their pennies into the other, more profitable, branches of the company, there's very little investment in their cable but since there's no real competition at 50meg in their areas, there's no incentive for virgin to stop.

BT are rolling out FTTC, which will offer speeds that will rival VMs cable speed. I just hope the competition doesn't force VM to lower their prices causing more over subscription, I would rather see the competition forcing eachother to improve the service rather than try out do eachother on price.

 

[Seft]

Even with STM a 20Mb user could still download 600GB a day according to someone on one of the other threads on this subject.

Actually it's about 130GB/day. Even without STM you'd be looking at about 185GB. You couldn't do 600GB/day on a 50meg line!

 

[Dist]

Hmm, not sure where that 600GB figure came from. Perhaps it was the figure of what the 200Mb connection that is being tested is capable of.

Anyway, 130GB a day with STM, that should be plenty for the vast majority of users.

 

[PistolPete]

I think he is slightly misquoting a post of mine, where I said you could squeeze just over 500Gb day out of the 50Mb in theory.

But yes, you can do (again in theory if you get full speed 24/7) more than 100GB+ a day on a 20Mb line without hitting the STM.

 

[cokecan]

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html

as allready said, the STM isnt that bad tbh, you just have to know when the STM times are and work round them. If i know i have a large file to download then I'll usually wait till after 9pm to download it. This then leaves my connection at full speed for the few hours of the evening STM for browsing after work or something.

I'd much rather have this system than a monthly limit one

 

[DampCat]

Have to ask after reading this often, do you really have no alternatives to putting up with this in the UK?

Virgin are the only substantial Cable ISP. There's are plenty of cap free ADSL companies, though.

 

[Ace Modder]

Are there actually any other Cable ISP's in the UK?

 

[Werewolf]

I think there is one in the isle of wight, other than that I don't think so these days as originally each cable company got exclusive access to it's area, and they all ended up merging together over time.

 

[PayN]

I use Be Unlimited at home and it's truly great for me, but when I go to Uni I'm set to be on a 50mb virgin connection and this doesn't sound too promising. Any idea of when the 50mbit is being rolled out properly?

 

[Jabbs]

Only thing you can do to see if a area you are going to has it is put it in the postcode checker on the virgin site, i have had 50mb for about 2 months now and the speeds are fantastic 6230kbs download but i have had some issues which seem to be getting sorted now.

I had 20mb for 18 months on VM and never had any speed issues at all but when 20mb was rolled out by VM it had problems to start with so they will go on 50mb.

 

[PistolPete]

Are there actually any other Cable ISP's in the UK?

Doesn't Hull have a cable ISP?

 

[Daegan]

Doesn't Hull have a cable ISP?

Nah it's ADSL. There's no BT presence in Hull, instead it's all Kingston Communications.

Apart from Wightcable on the Isle of Wight there's Smallworld, which operates in a few towns in Scotland and the North of England. That's it I think for independent cable operators.

 

[Skidilliplop]

Nah it's ADSL. There's no BT presence in Hull, instead it's all Kingston Communications.

I'm saving that in my brain, in the bit reserved only for pub quizes!

 

[dbmzk1]

Have to ask after reading this often, do you really have no alternatives to putting up with this in the UK?

Many companies in countries around the world do similar things.