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Xan
16-02-2008, 10:37
looks like VM traffic shapping on weekends before 4pm,never use to BOO

jcuk
16-02-2008, 10:39
not sure man, gimme 30 mins ill post back and tell u x

Okay downloading 2 files, total combined speed is 2420Kb/s solid.

Ill let u know once ive reached 3-4gig

xspeedyx
16-02-2008, 11:25
Are you sure you have been stm'd check ur upload and if its what it should be then its ubr issue or pc/router issue

moaningmags
16-02-2008, 13:35
I just tested mine as this happened to me a few weeks ago.
Downloads won't go over 500kb/s, yet I can max out my upload.
The last time this happened, I ran every test newsgroup support
asked me and they could find no problem.
Might just disconnect the router (it annoys the kids) and run the tests again.

Noggo
16-02-2008, 13:42
To many peeps blaming traffic management for their poor connection to the VM network. It's like darth said, check your upload speed it should drop to 0.192Mbps if STM has been kicked in.

My upload speed is almost never changes from 0.7 Mbps.
Speed test just done:
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2008/02/52.png

Same test done yesterday:
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2008/02/53.png

Large difference to download speeds and little between uploads. To the people are going to reply about speedtest webby. why is then four downloads from http://www.fuller.zen.co.uk/test/ reach a total of 0.961 MB/s (1st speedtest above 8.48 Mb/s = 1.06 MB/s) near enough the same as speedtest, go figure. Attached zen file download prtscrn

Xan
16-02-2008, 15:34
To many peeps blaming traffic management for their poor connection to the VM network. It's like darth said, check your upload speed it should drop to 0.192Mbps if STM has been kicked in.

My upload speed is almost never changes from 0.7 Mbps.
Speed test just done:
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2008/02/52.png

Same test done yesterday:
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2008/02/53.png

Large difference to download speeds and little between uploads. To the people are going to reply about speedtest webby. why is then four downloads from http://www.fuller.zen.co.uk/test/ reach a total of 0.961 MB/s (1st speedtest above 8.48 Mb/s = 1.06 MB/s) near enough the same as speedtest, go figure. Attached zen file download prtscrn

i was getting full speed 2.3mb download then it droped as soon i hit 3 or 4gb i'd say that sounds like Traffic shapeing to me :p

Welshchris
16-02-2008, 15:41
just noticed im at 1mb also and ive not downloaded anything at all.

Noggo
16-02-2008, 16:40
Xan, what upload speed have you got then?
(post a speedtest image up)

Ermintrude
16-02-2008, 16:51
I can't get any of the speedtest sites to show anything and they all time out except ZDnet which shows this

Type Speed KBPS
56k modem 56
256k DSL 256
512k DSL 512
1Mb DSL/Cable 1024
2Mb DSL/Cable 2048
4Mb DSL/Cable 4096
8Mb DSL/Cable 8192
You 11
Results 816 kbits downloaded in 76.407 sec

Should we start a competition see who can get lowest download speed?

First prize a shiny new 14.4k modem perhaps!

Sorry for being frivolous, its the only thing stopping me from throwing a serious fit.

Xan
16-02-2008, 16:59
43kb that was to my us server

Wossi
16-02-2008, 22:59
First post here, I only registered to see if they were traffic shaping on weekends also as i seem have to have dropped to 1mb from 4mb after downloading just over 2 gig. Rebooted my modem, ran some speed tests, downloaded from sites that normally max out my connection and everything is coming back as 1mb download and about 128kb upload. Yet there is nothing on the virgin site about this at weekends, it just says 4pm-9pm, so maybe they have just introduced this across the board?

TehTech
16-02-2008, 23:03
First post here, I only registered to see if they were traffic shaping on weekends also as i seem have to have dropped to 1mb from 4mb after downloading just over 2 gig. Rebooted my modem, ran some speed tests, downloaded from sites that normally max out my connection and everything is coming back as 1mb download and about 128kb upload. Yet there is nothing on the virgin site about this at weekends, it just says 4pm-9pm, so maybe they have just introduced this across the board?

And WHY would it not apply to weekends for?

Think about it, more people are home from work weekends, so the net will get battered more, just because most people dont work weekends, dont mean to say you get unrestricted speeds these 2 days too, STM is EVERY day of the week...

Wossi
16-02-2008, 23:11
And WHY would it not apply to weekends for?

Think about it, more people are home from work weekends, so the net will get battered more, just because most people dont work weekends, dont mean to say you get unrestricted speeds these 2 days too, STM is EVERY day of the week...

My speed has never dropped over the weekend before and it used to say that it was only Monday-Friday 4-9 that the stm came into effect. Now it just has the times. Normally when a company says peak hours hours, it generally doesn't include weekends.

TehTech
17-02-2008, 00:30
My speed has never dropped over the weekend before and it used to say that it was only Monday-Friday 4-9 that the stm came into effect. Now it just has the times. Normally when a company says peak hours hours, it generally doesn't include weekends.

As I said above, as MOST people are not at work, school or uni etc, then there is going to be much more people online, so yes, it would make perfect sence for them to STB at weekends too, when would it be busier, 4pm-9pm weekdays or most of the weekend???

I remember when I was at my last job, i was far 2 knackered to do much when I got home from work, so I made up for it during my 2 days off, that just so happened to be SATURDAY and SUNDAY.

Wossi
17-02-2008, 00:39
As I said above, as MOST people are not at work, school or uni etc, then there is going to be much more people online, so yes, it would make perfect sence for them to STB at weekends too, when would it be busier, 4pm-9pm weekdays or most of the weekend???

I remember when I was at my last job, i was far 2 knackered to do much when I got home from work, so I made up for it during my 2 days off, that just so happened to be SATURDAY and SUNDAY.

I'm not disagreeing with you on how busy it will be on during the weekends, but 2 weeks ago there was no traffic shaping going on as I had to download a lot of stuff during the weekend and my speed didn't drop. Unless of course for some obscure reason I was overlooked.

TehTech
17-02-2008, 00:53
I'm not disagreeing with you on how busy it will be on during the weekends, but 2 weeks ago there was no traffic shaping going on as I had to download a lot of stuff during the weekend and my speed didn't drop. Unless of course for some obscure reason I was overlooked.

It is quite possible that!

Quite a few people here have said that during weekdays they have downloaded over the quota & STM hasnt been applied, I guess its down to if the person in charge of STM was busy watching some illegal porn he'd downloaded via BitTorrent hehe ;)

Sirpingalot
17-02-2008, 18:24
I doubt this is shaping, though it is odd that it was fine not an hour ago

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2008/02/49.png

kryogenik
17-02-2008, 18:48
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2008/02/45.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

This in Manchester. Downloaded less than 400mb today and surfing.

Xan
17-02-2008, 19:12
Today my download speed is ok,must have been somthing VM was doing to there network. There have been problems over the past week.

Pia
17-02-2008, 19:37
I'm supposed to be on 4 meg..... never had any issues til tonight. :(:(:(

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:35:35 GMT

Test 1: 1024K took 8828 ms = 116 KB/sec, approx 956 Kbps, 0.93 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 8765 ms = 116.8 KB/sec, approx 962 Kbps, 0.94 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 8797 ms = 116.4 KB/sec, approx 959 Kbps, 0.94 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 17563 ms = 116.6 KB/sec, approx 961 Kbps, 0.94 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 960 Kbps, 0.94 Mbps

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2008/02/44.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Richy99
18-02-2008, 11:42
looks like VM traffic shapping on weekends before 4pm,never use to BOO

hasnt happened to me and i did about 6 gig on saturday afternoon without any decrease in speed