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Euromancer
@co.uk | reply to mrcrash
Re: Virgin 20 Meg
They are actively traffic shaping people who DL more than 3gig in what they call peak times, which off the top of my head was 4pm to midnight, they will then reduce your bandwidth if you go over the imposed fair use limit. | |
Euromancer
@co.uk
| It seems many VM customers are unhappy with the up and down nature of the XL package. You need to remember the limiting factor now with such a big bandwidth is actually the server you are trying to DL will not release enough of its own bandwidth to give you full connection speed.
If you want to test what maximum speeds you can get try just DLing any large 100mb+ file from
gamefiles.blueyonder.co.uk
gamefiles.virginmedia.com
Broadband Size: M - 2mb
During peak times, the top 5% on the Size: M package download at least 350MB of traffic each.
Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till midnight) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed – their download speed will be set to 1Mb, with their upload speed set to 128Kb. This will last for 4 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.
Broadband Size: L (4mb)
During peak times, the top 5% on the Size: L package download at least 750MB of traffic each.
Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till midnight) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed – their download speed will be set to 2Mb, with their upload speed set to 192Kb. This will last for 4 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.
Broadband Size: XL (20mb - old 10mb)
During peak times, the top 5% on the Size: XL package download at least 3GB of traffic each.
Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till midnight) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed – their download speed will be set to 5Mb, with their upload speed set to 256Kb. This will last for 4 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied. | |
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