General : Traffic Management Changes - April 2nd

[Blairhoyle]

Ben,

so not only are we getting it reduced if we meet the allowance we also get our speeds lowered even if we DON'T reach the allowance cap?

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by Blairhoyle

Ben,

so not only are we getting it reduced if we meet the allowance we also get our speeds lowered even if we DON'T reach the allowance cap?

No, I'm saying that is what you get reduced by WHEN you hit the trigger. I misread your post - you only get reduced if you hit the trigger, otherwise you continue with the full headline speed

[Blairhoyle]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

No, I'm saying that is what you get reduced by WHEN you hit the trigger. I misread your post - you only get reduced if you hit the trigger, otherwise you continue with the full headline speed

so I should be fine watching my HD video online at peak hours then?

Last night I hit a major issue which I believe may have been caused by 3 downloads that were taking place at the same time which were files of 4GB, 3GB and 500MB in size. Should be noted that I cancelled the 4GB one before it was finished.

only after 9pm did I manage to watch my HD link.

I won't be downloading anything tonight when I'm watching my HD link, should I get the buffering and stuttering then I may have to review my contract with Virgin altogether.

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by Blairhoyle

so I should be fine watching my HD video online at peak hours then?

If you don't hit the trigger limit, yes.

[crazyronnie]

yep

[Lee]

Can someone tell me how to monitor how much my connection has downloaded using standard VM supplied equipment?

Of course I mean multiple devices, including Sky Anytime+, Xbox, Smartphones, PC(s), Tablet, Mac.

Seems to be a basic requirement, but from what I know VM supply no way of monitoring ones usage?

[sniper007]

Originally Posted by Lee

Can someone tell me how to monitor how much my connection has downloaded using standard VM supplied equipment?

Of course I mean multiple devices, including Sky Anytime+, Xbox, Smartphones, PC(s), Tablet, Mac.

Seems to be a basic requirement, but from what I know VM supply no way of monitoring ones usage?

The only way of doing that that I can think of, is running your own router with sufficient logging (such as a router running DDWRT and/or Tomato) which would be able to capture ALL traffic flowing through it to ALL your devices. Otherwise run everything through another PC/piece of hardware that can capture such information like a PC built as a gateway/firewall etc.

How do other people do this?

[hjf288]

Through a router running tomato...

[Sirius]

If the superhub was as super as they say it is it would let you monitor your usage just like most routers these days

[craigj2k12]

the superhub running in router mode does monitor useage, just not well, it doesnt pick up some things like some wireless phones, and stunts others

[Blairhoyle]

right troops I have an issue here.

I have just done a speedtest on thinkbroadband that came back with a downspeed of 2Mb.

I then started streaming my HD video and there is no problems, no buffering no stammering on the link.

is that test site reliable?

[craigj2k12]

peering to thinkbroadband is red hot from VM connections, the site is reliable but VM are not

[Blairhoyle]

Originally Posted by craigj2k12

peering to thinkbroadband is red hot from VM connections, the site is reliable but VM are not

so what you are saying is that the speed results that the website is getting from VM are not reliable?

[Martin_D]

how much is this in Gigabits

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[kwikbreaks]

A GB is 1024 MB so roughly speaking divide those numbers by 1000 to get GB.
So (in round numbers) last month was about 2GB a day on average and 60GB for the month