Virgin Throttling

[shaithis]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05...de_throttling/

[Jay]

whats the point in offering high dowload speeds with such a small limit?

its like having a fast car but its only fast for the first half of the trip, after that your stuck in 3rd gear the entire time.

Pointless. If they can't handle the bandwith don't sell the speeds.

[HoldenBurn1000]

Im sorry I know this has nothing to do with it but that I thought the thread name meaned somthing very very different!

*gets coat

[Jay]

lol... you have a very strange mind.

[HoldenBurn1000]

Maybe! the worst thing is I still clicked into the thread :S hehe

[Avalon]

whats the point in offering high dowload speeds with such a small limit?

its like having a fast car but its only fast for the first half of the trip, after that your stuck in 3rd gear the entire time.

Pointless. If they can't handle the bandwith don't sell the speeds.

To use your analogy based on 10mbit .. It's like having a fast car you can drive as fast as you want appart from when the roads get busy from 4pm to midnight. The other 16 hours you can do what you want. During the peak times if you drive 3000 miles you'll then have to drive for the next 4 hours at half speed then you can drive another 3000 miles at full then half speed till midnight.

In your peak time you can download roughly 70GB on 10mbit, that's without the 2x3GB you need to do to hit the cap twice during peak times or the 16GB ish you can do at 5mbit in 8 hours. I guess the difference between 105GB a day and 92Gb a day must really get on your nerves hu ?

[lastrite]

I've been with them for 3 years, lately my download speed/ping's have been beyond shocking and I'm moving the first chance I get.

[Jay]

I think its stupid, upgrade speed and then complain that the system is overloaded and they are going to cap or cut speeds because people use it.

[mrwacko]

Although this is bad news for us cable customers, it could be a lot worse. I'd like to mention tiscali here, horrendous throttling all day.

Its bad, but it could be a whole lot worse

[Jay]

so we have the best of the worse

bad situation when providers are this bad to be honest.

[Avalon]

I honestly don't understand some of the posts here, to put it in context VM has given you the ability to download roughly 172GB A DAY compared to the 105GB you could before on 10mbit and asked for £2 a month more and you are unhappy. The majority of mainstream ADSL providers don't offer anything like that per month, you can download almost 5TB a month, what am I missing ?

Perhaps the question should be why do people seem to think if they pay a token amount they are entitled to a 1:1 unlimited connection, 100% uptime and a business class SLA ?

[McMav]

Whats really bad about the Throttling is those on lower speeds get a much lower limit.

10/20 Meggers pay 12 quid more for their speed increase and get 3 GB at peak time before getting throttled compaired to a 4 mbiter getting 750 Meg or a 2 Mbiter getting 350 Meg

they have efectively made the 2 Mbit service a no go area for gamers as its easy to do 350 MB in 2-3 hours gaming.

[tsj]

I haven't been throttled yet and I've been reaching the limits quite a few times now.

[Tel_Tech]

Can't say I've been throttled as of yet, but then I don't download all the much all that often. Most of my bandwidth is on games.

[Weetabix]

Perhaps the question should be why do people seem to think if they pay a token amount they are entitled to a 1:1 unlimited connection, 100% uptime and a business class SLA ?

What's the point in the 20Mb upgrade then? Why bother to upgrade our speeds if their infrastructure can't handle it?

"Here's 20meg, but you can only use it for 20 minutes"

I mean come on. I'd rather keep my uncapped 10 meg. And it's hardly a token amount btw. VM is a lot more expensive than equivalent speed ADSL, but I was willing to pay it for their 'no limits' policy.

I can get 24meg down and 1.3 up from Bethere for 2/3 of the price I'm paying now. And it's nice to see VM have implemented throttling before they've even give me a comfirmation date to my area's 20meg rollout.

[MD]

the point i here is that the more you pay the more you get - thats life, thats business.

VM have played the clever card, I mean, half the speed, big deal, if it was still in the days of 56k then ok some of the above comments are fair.

VM don't MAKE you go onto 20mb. you can still stay on 10mb if you want, besides if and when 10mb comes 20mb for the same money then you get quicker speed for part of the day and the same connection you have now for the rest of it, what's the big deal here exactly?

Is it a case of its changed and costs the same so I will critisise?

Thoughts please!