Anyone else getting very poor speeds between 17:00 and 0:00 ?

i am on an 8mb line, and i know they "cut" the speeds between peak hours.

however

this one was done 30mins ago:  

and this one was done the other night after midnight:  

tried ringing them to complain about the speed but they would have none of it, it is basically meaning anything i want to download will download at 3k a second and web browsing is almost unusable.

anyone got any suggestions or is this common?

Same here.  I try and work in the day and play XBL at night, on Virgins Hamster Internet I cant.  

Fortunatly, atm.... I can play in the day and work at night.

QuoteWhen someone is downloading and/or uploading a particularly large amount of information over a long period of time, it can slow down the Internet speed for other users who might just be checking their email or browsing online. So to make sure our service is fair for everybody, we sometimes moderate the speeds during peak times (4pm till 9pm) for customers who are downloading and/or uploading an unusually large amount at these times.

Just knock the downloading on the head between those times.

You are not the first to moan about this and not the last either
Virgin are having a very stupid and harsh fair use policy but currently even if you not using the net loads with downloads etc at peak times everyone is getting crappy spreads and their net is struggling with poor performance when any level of people get online

Quote from: neXusYou are not the first to moan about this and not the last either
Virgin are having a very stupid and harsh fair use policy but currently even if you not using the net loads with downloads etc at peak times everyone is getting crappy spreads and their net is struggling with poor performance when any level of people get online

I never have a speed issue, very weird.


this was New year Eve.

Im on Virgin Cable & my 20mb cuts down to 10mb & then down to 5mb

At least thats what newsbin tells me  :mrgreen:

Quote from: soopahfly

QuoteWhen someone is downloading and/or uploading a particularly large amount of information over a long period of time, it can slow down the Internet speed for other users who might just be checking their email or browsing online. So to make sure our service is fair for everybody, we sometimes moderate the speeds during peak times (4pm till 9pm) for customers who are downloading and/or uploading an unusually large amount at these times.

Just knock the downloading on the head between those times.

Issue is i dont download during these hours as it is almost impossible too, just do web browsing and online gameplay during this time.

Speed doesnt go back to normal till 0:00 so the 4pm-9pm is b******s

next question..... fed up with virginmedia, cant see how this is fair usage policy, so........ who is a good adsl provider?

If you dont have a BT line youre pretty much stuck. If you do, Id suggest seeing if your exchange is Be enabled and go with them.

yeah got a BT line

as for Be - "Unfortunately Be is not available in your area yet"

Im with Pipex and no matter what time it is I always have the same speed, well give or take 200kb.

just hit 844.1 kb/s, very happy with that speed, a 800 mb film down in 15 Mins, brilliant, its now 3.30 pm

edit. its down  it took 10 minutes, very very happy.

Quote from: Privateerjust hit 820.1 kbs, very happy with that speed, a 800 mb film down in 15 Mins, brilliant, its now 3.30 pm

that it jsut rub it in....

not sure what speed it is atm as im in the office!

it was actually down this morning when i left not even 1kbs

Quote from: Kris - Tekheads

Quote from: Privateerjust hit 820.1 kbs, very happy with that speed, a 800 mb film down in 15 Mins, brilliant, its now 3.30 pm

that it jsut rub it in....

not sure what speed it is atm as im in the office!

it was actually down this morning when i left not even 1kbs

well frankly I dont give a sh*t what you think, its the Truth, I guess they miss my house.

look at the times



I expect You will say i doctored the time.

you used a different font.

Quote from: redyou used a different font.

ok

just done this.