Weird Virgin Media speeds

madindehead · 26 Oct 2009 at 22:38

My flatmate and I have 10 meg Virgin Cable. However, at night, the speed seems to drop a LOT. A Speedtest.net test during the day, says our download speed is around 10 meg. At night, it says it is around 1.8 meg.

I know Speedtest.net isn't maybe the most reliable test around. However, these speeds don't seem right to me.

It seems like they are throttling our speed quite heavily. Any ideas why? Or how I could fix it?

Loque · 26 Oct 2009 at 22:57

downloading much during the day?

droyden · 26 Oct 2009 at 23:15

Mine has been pretty up and down (speedwise) over the last week or so. Hopefully it resolves itself :/

alex24 · 26 Oct 2009 at 23:23

Mine's been all over the place this week too.

madindehead · 26 Oct 2009 at 23:48

Loque said:
downloading much during the day?

Not been downloading at all. Well, the odd file. But nothing massive. It's getting pretty annoying to be honest.

Surely it should be faster than this at this time of night:

PistolPete · 27 Oct 2009 at 01:37

That looks STM'd to me..... 25% of 10Mb/512kb is 2.5Mb/128kb.

http://www.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management.php

manbearpig · 27 Oct 2009 at 01:49

you have a high ping @79 ms

madindehead · 27 Oct 2009 at 08:36

Well, that was to Derry. Will try again to London. This morning at 8.34am.

I don't know what it would be throttled. I didn't download anywhere near enough data from it to be throttled. What do they count as an actual download for that?

Dark_Angel · 27 Oct 2009 at 08:57

Any data is considered download that you request, any data you send is considered upload.

Uploading a video on youtube will take upload bandwidth, the same as requesting a webpage from a server (but the amount of data you will send will be tiny). Online games also use a lot of upload bandwidth.

Downloading will be something like watching a video, downloading from any HTTP, bit torrent, itunes whatever.

madindehead · 27 Oct 2009 at 09:07

Thanks Dark_Angel. That would be why it's throttling. My flatmate tends to watch things on Youtube. And play those online flash games.

Personally, I download some stuff from time to time. And play online games. Might be worth looking into a speed boost.