Virgin Media Upload Speed Upgrades
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Its being rolled out over the next 12-18 Months it seems!
Keep an eye on this site for when it's going live in your area!
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Ah, least they're not going to reduce the download speed. That's good news!
Pity the 50meg users are now getting managed. True, they're not limiting downloads, but a blanket restriction on p2p traffic is never good and fluctuation uploads (5 to 1.75 if you pass the 6 gig limit) will make qos more difficult.
I'm sure everyone will be able to sidestep these minor issues as soon as they're willing to pay up for 100meg lines ofc
I'm sure everyone will be able to sidestep these minor issues as soon as they're willing to pay up for 100meg lines ofc
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It's not a blanket restriction on P2P, they say it's only filesharing type P2P that should be affected. Keeping the speeds up and doing DPI might be hard but as I dont use P2P I don't care.
I like it, the traffic management on 50mb looks reasonable to me, but the increased upload will be really nice at times 
The uplaod limit is high enough it won't be a major issue for most people (and when it does get managed, is still what it was before the upgrade).
The uplaod limit is high enough it won't be a major issue for most people (and when it does get managed, is still what it was before the upgrade).
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still won't join virgin media after spending 1 year with such poor performance, not even 100/100 would make me go back.
What's this all about then? It seems VERY vague and you're all glossing over it?
So we've no idea what they class as heavy usage, no idea what they'll slow the speed down to, and we lose three hours in the evening for Usenet traffic (9pm - midnight). Essentially we have two types of traffic management now?
So we've no idea what they class as heavy usage, no idea what they'll slow the speed down to, and we lose three hours in the evening for Usenet traffic (9pm - midnight). Essentially we have two types of traffic management now?
Nice to hear about the upload increase, but what is all this I am reading about the speeds being lowered for P2P services.
It says Warwick is already enabled, Iw onder if this is the whole of Warwickshire eg S-o-A or just Warwick town.
It says Warwick is already enabled, Iw onder if this is the whole of Warwickshire eg S-o-A or just Warwick town.
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The Usenet/P2P shaping is bad news, as per: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35101015-post19.html
Increase in upload, great, but the traffic shaping (not throttling as we've been used to for a while now) even affects 50mbps users.
Increase in upload, great, but the traffic shaping (not throttling as we've been used to for a while now) even affects 50mbps users.
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I have had the 5 meg up for about 3 weeks now.
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So if they bring in the decreased upload speed within my first 12 months can i cancel because they have changed my terms!
They reckon you'll be down to 25% of network capacity, though as the poster I linked to says, it's all very unclear what that means. Basically, those users who upgraded to 50mb to get away from throttling, are still clear from throttling, BUT they're now subject to shaping which means slow Usenet downloads during the day (let's be honest, this is the main reason why those users upped to 50...)
People are getting excited by the increased upload smokescreen when really they should be very concerned by the other limits VM have put in place.