Virgin Media Throttling

I was on the 10Gb package until recently, and I only got traffic managed once due to downloading a face pack for FM at the wrong time of day. :o

I don't download much but I always managed to download at the right times.

50Mbps has no download caps, but in the improved upload areas you do get throttled speeds for Newsgroups/P2P traffic at peak times.
 
Everyone if on similar usage and connections to you will be receiving the cap.

10Mb service these days is the lowest tier package and I would say is aimed at people who just want to be connected. However, 1Mb/s from 11pm-10am is still cause to download at least 40/50gb worth of stuff and not to be scoffed at!

You have a few options, as probably mentioned:

- Upgrade to faster connection to ensure all stuff is acquired between throttle times
- Download less
- Don't whore connection during the day / schedule your download times better.

That is pretty much it. There is no other way around it. Gaming shouldn't affect your daily cap one bit. It will literally be the downloading, torrenting, usenetting of big files which rape your bandwidth allowances.

I have heard that in some areas if you constantly take the Michael and keep trying to use your conneciton when you've been throttled and KEEP getting throttled that they put a monthly restriction on you so that you learn your lesson. No proof on this just hear say though.
 
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Well as everyone has said it is most likely traffic management. If you want to know if your connection is not working to speed don't download for 24 hours and then do speeds tests at different parts of day to see if you are getting 10Mb. But if you want to keep being 'unfair' and breaking the fair usage policy and then complaining about being throttled then download more. VM will happily switch your net off.
 
A friend of mine was doing a backup of his photos, high quality ones, his connection nearly died once he broke the cap. They need to sort out these packages, not everyone can get 50mb, and by extension, the extra bandwidth. When 100mb becomes the norm, people will have to upgrade just to continue their current habits, clever from VM, but annoying.
 
To be honest scheduling your downloads/backups for overnight when VM give you 12 hours unlimited use I think is fair game.

It does make sense to me and I've always been happy with the way they conduct the fair usage. If you can get over the "I WANT THIS NOW MUST DL/UL" mentality and wait 24 hours then almost anything is achievable.

I've done 1TB worth of downloading on a VM 10Mb connection in a month. They said nothing. The only thing was I didn't extract the urine during the day when they have to worry more about the state of their networks due to business users and peak home users and such.

Hardly unfair/bad deal!
 
Tweaker said:
They need to sort out these packages, not everyone can get 50mb, and by extension, the extra bandwidth.
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Not quite sure what you mean here. I wasn't aware that there were cabled areas that could not get 50Mb.

If you mean that not all can afford 50Mb, that's a completely different thing.

I drive a clapped out diesel car. It's loud, it's uncomfortable but it gets me from A to B. If I wanted a quiet, comfortable car then I'd have to pay more for it. You pays yer money and takes yer choice.
 
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