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DiscoDave
17-11-2008, 21:52
Hi Everyone,

I was recently upgraded from the 8Mb service to 10Mb. According to Virgin media im part of the top 10% of downloaders (yeah right..) and therefore I've been throttled. Now, I don't do any peer to peer stuff, ie bittorrent and the like, so my upload usage should be very low.

Why, then, Have i been throttled to 2mbit download and 120Kb upload? (15KB upload).

15KB?! I'm sorry, have I gone back in time to the days of ISDN? This is just shocking to be honest and I'm wondering if anyone has any logical reason why my upload has been capped like this?

Seriously Virgin Media, if you can't handle people using their connections to their potential, then why are you trialing even faster connections?

Oh wait, I know....money....

David
AbyssUnderground
17-11-2008, 22:18
Please see http://www.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management.php

It has been openly available on the website for many many months now so you should have known what you were getting when you signed up. It states the limiting times and thresholds for your information.

You signed the contract so you should know what was in it, and traffic management was one of those things.
BenMcr
17-11-2008, 22:30
Plus Virgin don't do a cable 8Mb service. Its 2, 10 or 20Mb

The only 8Mb service is the ADSL one
DiscoDave
17-11-2008, 22:46
ok it was from 2mbit to 10.

Ive been throttled before but was never this servere with my upload bandwidth...
AbyssUnderground
17-11-2008, 22:49
ok it was from 2mbit to 10.

Ive been throttled before but was never this servere with my upload bandwidth...


2Mbps/200Kbps > 1Mbps/100Kbps
4Mbps/400Kbps > 1Mbps/100Kbps
10Mbps/512Kbps > 2.5Mbps/128Kbps
20Mbps/768Kbps > 5Mbps/256Kbps

I believe...
BenMcr
17-11-2008, 22:51
If you were on 2Mbit before your upload speed was 200/256Kbit. If you get traffic managed your upload speed gets reduced by 50% so would be 100/128Kbit
General Maximus
17-11-2008, 23:24
welcome to the real world, think how i feel going from 20*756 to 5*128 on a regular basis, it sucks ass big time
AbyssUnderground
17-11-2008, 23:48
welcome to the real world, think how i feel going from 20*756 to 5*128 on a regular basis, it sucks ass big time

5 / 256 isn't it?
xspeedyx
18-11-2008, 08:24
no its 5Mb /192k
General Maximus
18-11-2008, 15:31
it doesn't matter what it is, it sucks either way :)