Virgin bandwidth dropping at the end of the month?

[Mista157]

Contention it is then. Must be loads of new people using Virgin in my area...

[jetfire]

Ive been hammering my ps3 all day must have about 20 demos and they have turned me right down.

im on 20mb and i only upgraded last week. guess they don't like me downloading 20gig a day.

[Ekreed]

See, that's why I now think it isn't capping. The example Jetfire just posted adhere's to the traffic management rules that Speed linked as both the up and down speed has been divided by roughly four. However, if you look at mine, when it is slow the downspeed is about a fifth of normal, but the upspeed is another order of magnitude smaller as it is almost fifty times slower than normal. Also, it seems that the traffic management policy isn't universal as it is only being trialled in five areas, and none of those are Cardiff.

[Speed]

Yeah I see what you mean.

I'm pretty sure the one I linked to is being used nationwide, there might be another one they are trialling in your area however.

What did Virgin have to say and what does your modem config page look like?

[jetfire]

i rang them and had a massive argument with them and as it turns out they have caped my download speed as i have gone over the download limit.

now as to what this limit is they whould not tell me grrrrr. all she said was the peak times are from 4-9pm and if i don't download anymore in 24hrs my speed will go back to around 20mb over and over yap yap yap no matter what i asked.

now i downloaded most of the demos before 4pm so that's bollocks.

she said i have gone over the limit otherwise why say don't download any more and my speed will be back in 24hrs?

so what is the daily limit on virgin because there clearly is one but they wont tell me

[Speed]

i rang them and had a massive argument with them and as it turns out they have caped my download speed as i have gone over the download limit.

now as to what this limit is they whould not tell me grrrrr. all she said was the peak times are from 4-9pm and if i don't download anymore in 24hrs my speed will go back to around 20mb over and over yap yap yap no matter what i asked.

now i downloaded most of the demos before 4pm so that's bollocks.

she said i have gone over the limit otherwise why say don't download any more and my speed will be back in 24hrs?

so what is the daily limit on virgin because there clearly is one but they wont tell me

You should of read the whole thread, I posted the following link earlier: http://www.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management.php. It is unlimited between 21:00 and 10:00 and 15:00 and 16:00 for all but the lowest package. You will be throttled for 5 hours from the time you went over the limit.

[jetfire]

well they have put my download speed back already after another phone call.

[Speed]

well they have put my download speed back already after another phone call.

I'd say it is more likely that 5 hours has past lol. You'll know next time anyways.

[jetfire]

[jetfire]

i started downloading demos at 4pm to see how long it whould take them to slow me down. it did not take long must have about 10 gig of demos so far.

[Speed]

It is instant once you go over the limit, just depends how good the servers are you are downloading from. With newgroups I get around 2.3MB/sec so it takes less than 25 minutes to go over after 16:00.

[jetfire]

it just shot back up again. but Ive not stopped downloading demos have about 22 gig now