Virgin Media Upload Speed Upgrades

I'm getting downloads of 100kb/s from my 20Mb connection!!!!
WTF is going on tonight!!!!

EDIT: Just ran speed test and im getting 18Mb connection with 0.6Mb upload.
Seems like my downloads from newsgroups are capped at 100kb/s!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!

Are virgin taking the ****!!!!!
 
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photoshop said:
I'm getting downloads of 100kb/s from my 20Mb connection!!!!
WTF is going on tonight!!!!

EDIT: Just ran speed test and im getting 18Mb connection with 0.6Mb upload.
Seems like my downloads from newsgroups are capped at 100kb/s!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!

Are virgin taking the ****!!!!!
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Similar problems here with giganews

I haven't had the upload upgrade yet though

sid

edit/ Given that speeds are all over the place, its clear they are reserving bandwidth for time critical applications at peak times which are now defined till 12pm
 
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I'm getting 5Mb on my 20Mb connection when downloading on usenet, I'm with astraweb. It's nearly 2AM, this is just silly.

Edit: I was just reading the VM forums, and it seems that several people have already made threads on the issue and although this info is a little old (the VM staff posted on the 27th about this) a VM member of staff said:

"I'll just like to clarify that this was a technical trial, not a trial of any new traffic management policies. We're testing some new equipment currently during quiet times in some parts of our network, we hope to finish this testing over the next few days. Sorry for any inconvenience or confusion."
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I made the initial post at 1:56AM and was getting 5Mb download, its now 2:10AM and now I'm getting 20Mb. Which is strange as I would have thought the later it gets the more 'quiet' it gets and so better to test new equipment. Starting tests at midnight is not 'quiet time'.
 
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My speeds are all back to normal and great. I wouldnt mind the bad speeds iv been experienceing IF i A) had the upload upgrade (i dont) and B) had been madly downloading or torrenting etc

But this month i have not (as in last 4-5 weeks) really downloaded anything so there is no reason for them to hit me so hard :(

hopefully its some issue that needs fixing rather than a permanent traffic crapness thing.
 
As far as I know this is a permanent thing. The quote you were referring to was aimed at a specific member who was complaining of being capped at 2am.

All other indications from VM on there indicate that this shaping will be in place between 1700 and 0000. Ridiculous. I'm getting 100kb/s on Usenet... that's overkill in terms of capping.
 
All usernet/torrent downloads are now capped until midnight. Then you get full speed.

What a load of ****!!!

If i want something i dont want to wait till midnight!
Nor do i want to keep my PC running all night!

This is seriously borked!!

See here: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=17483201&postcount=26

Throttling times:
1700 - midnight during the week
1200 - midnight during weekend

This sucks bigtime!!
I do most of my downloads during the weekend aswel :(
 
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If you can, try using a port other than 563, for Astraweb you can try 443 etc. Users on another forum report that changing from the common 563 SSL gives you your speed back.
 
I couldn't possibly say, not sure OcUK would be happy with it :p But they definitely report that 563 appears to be the throttled port, for the time being anyway.

Makes sense, I've always used 443 and haven't noticed ANY throttling over the past week.
 
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If you can, try using a port other than 563, for Astraweb you can try 443 etc. Users on another forum report that changing from the common 563 SSL gives you your speed back.
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does this solve all website capping?

i have noticed my usenext account hits 6.3mbps but then after 10seconds it drops to zero then bounces back to 6.3mbps.

this has only happend recently after i formated my machine so unsure if it's Virgin or Usenext messing things up
 
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I couldn't possibly say, not sure OcUK would be happy with it :p But they definitely report that 563 appears to be the throttled port, for the time being anyway.

Makes sense, I've always used 443 and haven't noticed ANY throttling over the past week.
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Worked :eek:

Now is there a work around for when using FlashFXP...?
 
Wow, that sucks. It's more than the 75% throttle they promised too, more like 85 / 90%. Damn.

We have a workaround for usenet now, but all they'd have to do is include port 443 in the list and it's game over :(
 
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