This will need a little explaining I think. I've got the virgin media 'L' or 10mbps package and two months in a row I have had problems at the end of the month. On the last day of november and october I found my internet impossible to use, according to speedtest.net my ping reached >5000ms and my upload speed struggled to get above 0.01mbps.
At first I thought it may have been a connection trouble, irritating but I could live with it, but now it has happened twice on the last day of the month I find it more suspicious. Especially since the trouble cleared up once the next month started after midnight. Do virgin have some form of monthly limit on bandwidth that I am exceeding, after which they throttle your line? I have looked up their terms and conditions and their traffic management policy shouldn't apply to when I was experiencing problems, and there should be no reason why it should happen only on the last day of the month since it seems to use daily limits.
Anyone have any idea what is going on? I tried contacting virgin about it but they haven't replied.
(I can post links to the speedtests later if it will help, I don't have them right now since I'm not at home)


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I have a 360 myself and a PC for gaming. I can pull down gigs worth of data from steam if I buy a game or the usual 1gb+ for a 360 demo as it seems to be the case atm. Even on the 20mb line we are capped as soon as we hit 3gb in an evening so that could be a demo or two and a purchase etc and you get capped.
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