TikkiRo
06-01-2012, 20:40
Hi all
Haven't been on for a while but hit a small problem tonight that has provoked me to wonder about bandwidth. I'm on the XL pkg (20 Mb) and as a disabled, semi-housebound user, I do tend to download a fair few programmes I've missed on TV for one reason or another, alongside being a webmaster so uploading a lot etc. In other words I'd consider myself a fairly heavy user and my downloads for this month thus far scare me, yet so far I've not been traffic managed ever as far as I can see, maybe because I do tend to stick to doing my heaviest usage overnight.
However, tonight I ran into an issue while trying to watch programmes on Catch Up on a couple of different players and platforms - kept getting an insufficient bandwidth error msg.
Just wondering if this is likely to be from Virgin, or the programme site? And in particular if it is from Virgin, is it going to be something that will be a continual issue until I quit downloading for a week or two? I've read the TM information but still unsure about the difference with regard to bandwidth over data etc.
Someone have patience to clarify the likely situation for me? Appreciate it's probably not the first time this type of Q has been asked, but as you can imagine, when I ran a search on here for "bandwidth" it would have taken me hours to wade through the hits, so hope you don't mind my asking.
Thanks :)
Haven't been on for a while but hit a small problem tonight that has provoked me to wonder about bandwidth. I'm on the XL pkg (20 Mb) and as a disabled, semi-housebound user, I do tend to download a fair few programmes I've missed on TV for one reason or another, alongside being a webmaster so uploading a lot etc. In other words I'd consider myself a fairly heavy user and my downloads for this month thus far scare me, yet so far I've not been traffic managed ever as far as I can see, maybe because I do tend to stick to doing my heaviest usage overnight.
However, tonight I ran into an issue while trying to watch programmes on Catch Up on a couple of different players and platforms - kept getting an insufficient bandwidth error msg.
Just wondering if this is likely to be from Virgin, or the programme site? And in particular if it is from Virgin, is it going to be something that will be a continual issue until I quit downloading for a week or two? I've read the TM information but still unsure about the difference with regard to bandwidth over data etc.
Someone have patience to clarify the likely situation for me? Appreciate it's probably not the first time this type of Q has been asked, but as you can imagine, when I ran a search on here for "bandwidth" it would have taken me hours to wade through the hits, so hope you don't mind my asking.
Thanks :)