My Usage
Hi,
I phoned Virgin Media technical support team as i was only getting 4 meg upload speed as was informed i had been capped. I was then informed by the gentleman that i could check my monthly usage via my virgin media account. He couldn't point me where abouts in my virgin media this was located but was adamanat this was available to virgin media customers.
Thanks Tanny |
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He couldn't point you to the location in My Virgin Media for the same reason as I can't find it there when I'm logged in.
I use a utility called DUMETER to keep track of my usage and warn me if there's a threshold I'm about to cross. The Superhub provides stats, but they are not considered to be reliable. See the VM Forums for the skinny on that. |
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1. Nope
2. See above Well over a year ago an icon for a usage page in the "my apps" section slipped out, but it was a trial apparently and nobody ever got to use it. |
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I think the more important thing as far as you are concerned dude is that you don't need to worry about your total usage per se. Virgin Media don't cap you to a certain monthly allowance and once you exceed it that is it. They operate subscriber traffic management which looks only at how much you upload (send) on an hourly basis. During the evenings if you exceed a certain amount of data per hour then your "upload" speed gets reduced for 1 hour till you come back down below the thresholds. The thresholds vary per tier so you can have a look here and see how it applies to you but the important thing to bear in mind is that you aren't screwed till the end of the month. Your upload speed will be reduced for 2 hours tops and it will only happen in the evenings and weekend so I don't think you need a bb usage meter to watch your traffic (unless you are anal about uploading all evening and not wanting to hit stm).
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You can download 24/7 forever until VM change their policy. I do believe though that P2P downloading still has STM limits.
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You beat me to it Qas. I wanted to reply at lunch time but I ran out of patience trying to copy the bits I wanted from Rajie's post and Seph's.
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So in answer to your question, yes you can download 24/7 but the speed you get will vary depending on multiple factors depending on what you are doing. That being said, I live in an area which is has low utilisation and I can pretty much get max speed all the time so in response to your specific assertions, VM do not turn around and say "oh no, you have downloaded 1gb so your speed is now reduced". I have downloaded over 100gb in one day many times before, I just leave queue my downloads and leave them ticking away. That is what you are supposed to be able to do and that is what we pay for. The speed will go up and down depending how many other people in my area are doing stuff but that is how the technology works. Quote:
All the blab above is to explain how things work and the "bigger picture" in a hope that you understand that is happening is nothing to do with VM. You need to look at your other thread for your problem, I don't actually thing it is anything to do with VM and speed, I think it is a connectivity issue between your client and router. |
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A couple places where your case falls short though, Steam probably do have enough bandwidth, given the average UK broadband speed is 25Mbps, not 150. And even on cable, most customers still stay on the lowest package, making the average just over 50Mbps. It's not unheard of to get 2Tbps or more over a single fibre, and Steam has several CDNs in the UK and a dozen or so more in neighbouring countries. Steam's own stats show average download speeds on VM are 35Mbps, only 16Mbps across the UK, and global traffic hitting nearly 2Tbps on a daily basis, with no indication it's anywhere near the limit. Interestingly enough LINX traffic charts show a ~0.3Tbps bump around 8PM on Tuesday :dozey: To be fair though, I don't think KF2 is that popular a game to be making a huge impact. The all-time worldwide peak players count is barely 20,000 so the idea of 50,000 people downloading it at the same time in England alone is a bit far fetched. Quote:
Pretty much all core network links these days are a minimum of 10Gbps, typically much more with major networks running multiple 40Gbps or 100Gbps links. Even a single mobile phone transmitter can get a 10Gbps connection put in by VM these days. Any problems with congestion or capacity, if they exist, are nearly always on the local HFC node, not the core or backbone. P.S. There's an average of about 30Gbps of Steam traffic going into the VM network 24/7 by the way, given the traffic patterns I wouldn't be surprised if it peaked at over 100Gbps some parts of the day. |
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Worst case scenario is when everyone's been upgraded to 300Mbps :D
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