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moroboshi · 19-04-2008, 17:43

Sorry if this has already been asked, but these new throttling levels sound extremely agressive and will hit pretty much anyone who uses the net for video. I wouldn't fancy buying an HD movie over Xbox Live then have it fail half way through as I had hit some completely ridiculous bandwidth cap.

My question is this - would using some sort of tunnelling system, like VPMTunnel, somehow get around the throttling? If not, is there any way around it? It's bad enough Virgin are implementing something as obnoxious and basically illegal as Phorm, but this capping/throttling is getting so bad they really seem determined to destroy their own platform.

19-04-2008, 17:43	#172
moroboshi cf.addict Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 352	Re: STM Statement Sorry if this has already been asked, but these new throttling levels sound extremely agressive and will hit pretty much anyone who uses the net for video. I wouldn't fancy buying an HD movie over Xbox Live then have it fail half way through as I had hit some completely ridiculous bandwidth cap. My question is this - would using some sort of tunnelling system, like VPMTunnel, somehow get around the throttling? If not, is there any way around it? It's bad enough Virgin are implementing something as obnoxious and basically illegal as Phorm, but this capping/throttling is getting so bad they really seem determined to destroy their own platform.