3-4pm 'happy hour' gone?

[Blackened]

Just watched as throttling kicked in 30 mins into the 'happy hour'. :confused:

[AaronCooper]

It's 9am - 3:59PM, sorry mate but there is no happy hour during the daytime.

[Blackened]

I see - thanks.

I was looking here: http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management/traffic-management-faster-uploads.html

[AaronCooper]

Yeah it is miss leading, i also thought there was no management between 3-4PM at first.

[Fspiders]

That clearly states daytime restrictions cease at 3pm and evening restrictions start at 4pm. Unfortunately VM have another restriction and it's called "SUCKER! If you believe anything we say"

[Blackened]

There never used to be - and to be honest, I'd know because I had to use it quite often when grabbing massive video files from work. I'd often (as I did today) stop before I got within 1gb of my morning allowance then go mad 3-4 pm without getting managed, then finish off in the evening.

---------- Post added at 15:50 ---------- Previous post was at 15:47 ----------

Check THIS (http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12/33649582-stm-that-hour-in-between.html) old thread out. I've asked about it before (as it happened before!). I was told then there was no 3-4pm management.

---------- Post added at 16:16 ---------- Previous post was at 15:50 ----------

Throttle has just been lifted. *shrug*
Guess I must have hit further into my morning allowance than I thought. The times match.. Apols for any confusion.
Any VM bods confirm if there actually is or isn't management carried out within 3-4 pm?

[nomadking]

Is it that there is no 3-4pm 'happy hour' as far as uploads are concerned? The evening upstream limits are applied 3pm-8pm.

[cook1984]

I too hammer the connection between 3 and 4PM. No choice really, and it does not seem to count towards the evening or daytime STM (un)limits.

I recommend using a router running Tomato with this script: http://www.tievolu.co.uk/stm/stm-monitor.html

It will keep track of STM limits for you. I have developed a system where I can pretty much saturate the line fully out of STM periods, with a mix of streaming video, P2P and backups.

[Blackened]

Thanks, but way overkill for me. I just need to occasionally pull a big file down in a few hours and I (clearly) occasionally fall foul of the STM. I just need to be a bit more careful about the first step of allocated GB. I thought being 1GB below I would be safe - that must be some serious overheads.

[cook1984]

Well if you don't mind wasting electricity and keeping your PC on you could use a download manager to automatically start downloading at 9PM. A lot of people do that which is why you get these massive latency spikes and degraded performance around that time.

[Chrysalis]

seems VM have 2 times for off peak.

9pm for FUP and STM.
midnight for shaping.

they be better of changing 9am to 3pm weekdays and 10am weekends and 9pm to 1am.