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Gavin78
01-06-2007, 01:08
Does anyone have any ideas when they consider peak hours are over?

I was downloading from the ntl news groups when I got past the 3 gig mark speed went from 2mb download to 560k/s....

it could be nothing related was just wondering does that sound about the right speed to be dropped at after the 3 gig limit?

time I started to download was about 00:30am
Chris W
01-06-2007, 01:42
Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till midnight) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed

from http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html

hth
Fawkes
01-06-2007, 06:09
from http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html

hth

OMG, that make a refreshing change, we never got that level of transparency from NTL.
Gavin78
01-06-2007, 08:10
this was after midnight that I started downloading which was about 00:30 so I should have been ok?
Toto
01-06-2007, 08:40
this was after midnight that I started downloading which was about 00:30 so I should have been ok?

Yes, shold be.
Fawkes
01-06-2007, 09:00
During peak times, the top 5% on the Size: XL package download at least 3GB of traffic each.

Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till midnight) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed – their download speed will be set to 5Mb, with their upload speed set to 256Kb. This will last for 4 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.

So, does that mean if you hit the 3GB limit at 23:59 you get shaped until 03:59?
jem
01-06-2007, 10:33
So, does that mean if you hit the 3GB limit at 23:59 you get shaped until 03:59?

Well that's how I read it; yes
Rakhal
01-06-2007, 11:50
Might be using GMT for the shaping hours. Which would make it from 5PM to 1AM at present (since we're on BST). That would be a little silly if it does, but I've seen sillier things.
--Rakhal
englishpaul
01-06-2007, 21:57
Might be using GMT for the shaping hours. Which would make it from 5PM to 1AM at present (since we're on BST). That would be a little silly if it does, but I've seen sillier things.
--Rakhal

I think you may well have hit the nail on the head!
Steve-o||[^]
03-06-2007, 00:45
Might be using GMT for the shaping hours. Which would make it from 5PM to 1AM at present (since we're on BST). That would be a little silly if it does, but I've seen sillier things.
--Rakhal

i just downloaded ubuntu (last 30mins - which is 698MB) as the one i downloaded during the wee hours has dodgy MD5`s and that`s all i`ve downloaded today (minus light browsing) and i`ve just been shaped.



this is not cool.
englishpaul
03-06-2007, 02:02
Sun, 3 Jun 2007 01:00:36 UTC

1st 512K took 1092 ms = 468.9 KB/sec, approx 3864 Kbps, 3.77 Mbps
2nd 512K took 691 ms = 741 KB/sec, approx 6106 Kbps, 5.96 Mbps
3rd 512K took 881 ms = 581.2 KB/sec, approx 4789 Kbps, 4.68 Mbps
4th 512K took 892 ms = 574 KB/sec, approx 4730 Kbps, 4.62 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 4872 Kbps, 4.76 Mbps

BAH! My bad.

:(