Virgin Media offically "Throttling" users

justpaper

wait,.. i never signed up to that agreement,. is it affecting all users or the ones that are signing up now >??

banger9365

yes when the poeple in your area is upgrades to 20mb and yes to new people too

justpaper

i signed up 2 months ago,. what a !!!! take if i knew the where going to do this i would of stuck with BT,. downloading at 146KB , on a MB,. getting last nights boxing match,. 710MB.

peter999

justpaper wrote: »

i signed up 2 months ago,. what a !!!! take if i knew the where going to do this i would of stuck with BT,. downloading at 146KB , on a MB,. getting last nights boxing match,. 710MB.

If you're not happy complain, get free speed upgrade or maybe move back to BT.

peter999

normanmark

My service has been a bit up & down at the minute, but nothing major. Traffic shaping is inevitable i'm afraid, but still if you're on 20mb i dont think 5mb speeds for 8 hours is going to majorly affect you!

M_at_the_W

I have been wanting to change onto Virgin Media for a while but i can't due to exchange and line problems.
If companies are to offer an "On Demand Service" which comes through an internet line then they have to develop a service which can cope for the demand of its users.
Certain companies such as Tiscali also monitor the amount of time you are online and not just the amount of data you download / upload.

banger9365

i think we all are talking about virgin media cable not adsl (bt phone line) M_at_the_W.
virgin media do's both cable (Telewest/NTL)and adsl(BT phone line)

epz_2

im on 10 meg, 20 better be soon grr so 5 meg seems pretty reasonable, usnet is about the only place you get full 10 meg anyway.

i download a fair bit of tv etc but since most torrents get posted overnight its not really going to be a major deal to kick them off before you go to work etc.

when their 20 meg starts getting wide public use you have the possibility of people totaly saturating the network, i mean thats a serious amount of bandwidth, i cant even guess what you would do to fill it but im sure theres plenty of folk downloading hddvds etc.

Infidel

This seems a bit sly. Though after people have signed up for new 12 month contracts they obviously don't care and can do what they want.

Bufflowbill

Despite usage limits they still say they offer unlimited downloads.

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/