10M : Why am i being throttled?

[jb66]

That's just clever marketing!

Next it will be "As low as "16ms ping*"

*30% of customers achieve this when pinging blahblah

[kwikbreaks]

Originally Posted by jb66

up to ten meg isnt a speed, its meaningless

Quite right. It doesn't stop VM (or every other ISP) advertising it though. All the ADSL ISPs point out achieved speeds will probably be less though and VM suggest most customers get close to the headline speed (which of course most do) but there are many thousands that don't.

[Andrewcrawford23]

Originally Posted by kwikbreaks

Quite right. It doesn't stop VM (or every other ISP) advertising it though. All the ADSL ISPs point out achieved speeds will probably be less though and VM suggest most customers get close to the headline speed (which of course most do) but there are many thousands that don't.

witht eh new ruling as long as x percentage do they can advertise it as such, untilt eh regulator gets some balls pardon teh pum and acutally enforce the isps to only adertise the lowest speeds 95% of cusotmer get then there will always be problems liek this

[chrisjones]

I feel your 'pain' RE throttling but theres something you need to consider. The torrents your downloading are most probably not 'legal', be honest, they are most probably not. Based on that fact alone, the fact you are gettings music,TV shows, movies and games (one of those at least) for free - your really not in a position to gripe at VM's traffic management policies.

We all get throttled from time to time, some most days. Its not as though we are being cut off, the service works just as well at 2.5mb for basic surfing, emails and even youtube/gaming. The fact you have to wait a few more hours for your 'free stuff' is just something you will have to deal with!

[Andrewcrawford23]

Originally Posted by chrisjones

I feel your 'pain' RE throttling but theres something you need to consider. The torrents your downloading are most probably not 'legal', be honest, they are most probably not. Based on that fact alone, the fact you are gettings music,TV shows, movies and games (one of those at least) for free - your really not in a position to gripe at VM's traffic management policies.

We all get throttled from time to time, some most days. Its not as though we are being cut off, the service works just as well at 2.5mb for basic surfing, emails and even youtube/gaming. The fact you have to wait a few more hours for your 'free stuff' is just something you will have to deal with!

i couldnt agree more, even if they dnt want to admit for fear of being tracked for doign it the fact remains it most liekly is free something tha thsould be paid for and as you said your nto cut off jsu tlimtied how fast you can get it

[Kymmy]

Originally Posted by jb66

That's just clever marketing!

Next it will be "As low as "16ms ping*"

*30% of customers achieve this when pinging blahblah

You mean like this

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23

and they put the stm in place because most areas are over subscribed and they cant meet the headline speed when everyone is online, stm is way to manage your traffic and make sure everyone gets fair share

regardless if it illegal torrent or legal one like ubuuntu etc, torrents are network killer plain and simple, not becaus eof the down speed but becuas eof the uplaod

even though you limit your torrents unless you are doing nothing else on you internet conecntion you will still be stmed, i appericate it annoys you but if you dnt want stmed just klimit yoru conenction not yoru torrents

in theory.

in reality it doesnt do enough in some oversubbed areas and is pointless in low utilised areas.

---------- Post added at 09:57 ---------- Previous post was at 09:54 ----------

Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23

witht eh new ruling as long as x percentage do they can advertise it as such, untilt eh regulator gets some balls pardon teh pum and acutally enforce the isps to only adertise the lowest speeds 95% of cusotmer get then there will always be problems liek this

The way I see it if the isps are telling the truth that its only ever a minority with performance problems then they would have no issue with rules like 95% of customers should be able to get the advertised speed. There is clearly a reason why the 10% figure was decided on and that will be because its a figure isp's are comfortable with.

From what I have heard of ofcom with VM its currently around the 2/3 mark which have no sigificant performance problems.