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    Re: online gaming on virgins 10mb service ?

    Its like 4GB between 12PM-6PM. Basically if your going to start downloading its best to do it form 9PM onwards.
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    Re: online gaming on virgins 10mb service ?

    here is the link to the limits

    hxxp://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html

    (can't post actually URL because of post count)

    So for the L package:
    Between 10am and 3am - 3gb download
    Between 4pm and 9pm - 1.5gb Download
    Any other time unlimted usage

    Its not much for the 4pm - 9pm period probably because this is when most people would use it. It was even worse for the M package which i was on previously

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    Re: online gaming on virgins 10mb service ?

    thx for the info , i have to download dirt2 again on my new setup which is a pain lol

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    Re: online gaming on virgins 10mb service ?

    Quote Originally Posted by Terbinator View Post
    Its like 4GB between 12PM-6PM. Basically if your going to start downloading its best to do it form 9PM onwards.
    That's what i thought but it's worse. I wasn't aware of these caps until recently.

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    Re: online gaming on virgins 10mb service ?

    One thing I forgot to mention is that when you do go over your limit you will get capped to 25% of your broadband speed for 5 hours. But it isn't as simple as that.

    If you go over your limit and its say 8:59pm them you won't get your full speed until 1:59am. So basically it caps you from when you go over and doesn't reset when you are using the internet outside of the capped periods.

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    Re: online gaming on virgins 10mb service ?

    Nice to know Virgin keep things simple Oo

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    Re: online gaming on virgins 10mb service ?

    Quote Originally Posted by chaotic_russ View Post
    anybody using the 10mb broardband from virgin media ? , if so whats it like for online gaming
    Last time I was playing online my ping was on average ar about 20, and would rise to 30 if things got hectic. On the whole had no problem playing on-line games on the 10mb line

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    Re: online gaming on virgins 10mb service ?

    Quote Originally Posted by chaotic_russ View Post
    mine has just done a ping of 42
    lol, I used to play Quake 1 with an average ping of 600 on a 56k dial up!

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    Re: online gaming on virgins 10mb service ?

    Quote Originally Posted by zaphox View Post
    lol, I used to play Quake 1 with an average ping of 600 on a 56k dial up!
    how times have changed! I missed that modem noise when dialing up....NOT!

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    Re: online gaming on virgins 10mb service ?

    Quote Originally Posted by chaotic_russ View Post
    mine has just done a ping of 42
    and I remember playing GP500 and getting a ping of around 400 was deemed good and 'playable'...

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    Re: online gaming on virgins 10mb service ?

    I used to routinely get kicked off BF2 servers for pings of 400.

    100 was the norm though, played competitive matches with that fairly regularly.

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