W**kers, 350Mb for the hours of 4pm - Midnight on my 2Mb, the 4Mb gets 750Mb, and the 20Mb gets 2Gb, then they half the speed (at least).  Now i dont torrent much so it shouldnt matter to me, but something about it makes my blood boil, might be because they didn;y bloody well inform us beforehand.  Im moving soon, and i think ill take business package when I do, at least i wont be limited on that!

wait what? that made no sense to me. Is there a bandwidth limit or something?

Quote from: PuNkwait what? that made no sense to me. Is there a bandwidth limit or something?

There You Go

What a load of poop.

Quote from: White GiantWhat a load of poop.

but as you say, the annoying thing is, that virgin must ring me once a month, and email me even more frequently, yet they didnt mention this?

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Quote from: White GiantWhat a load of poop.

but as you say, the annoying thing is, that virgin must ring me once a month, and email me even more frequently, yet they didnt mention this?

hell no, that would be too easy.  Im kinda stuck with them as im moving in the next couple of months, but i think ill take a Business ADSL package when i get my broadband installed.  Demon most likely as they seem the one that is least hassle from my experiences at work.  

Demon hassle free? Youve got to be kidding! Theyve been the company from hell since we started arranging line moves to our new building. Im sorry but a 40 day lead time is not good enough for an answer to a question!!

A lot of isps are doing this now - back in the days your average user might use 4gb a month, ppl do that in a day now wot with bittorrent and yootube n stuff.

On adsl youf be lucky to get much more than 2-3Mb between 4pm-midnight fwiw.

Quote from: sdpA lot of isps are doing this now - back in the days your average user might use 4gb a month, ppl do that in a day now wot with bittorrent and yootube n stuff.

On adsl youf be lucky to get much more than 2-3Mb between 4pm-midnight fwiw.

But it is not just illegal downloads these days, People can be classed as high end users just for using legit stuff.

Game patches are just massive and bigger all the time average for a game now for a large patch is say 300mb isnt it? with small ones being 30mb ish

Sky anytime and such you download your shows and movies now
You got radio
As you say youtube
You have the next versions of what youtube is - stage 6 with hd quality video and as that becomes the norm in you camera that will be the norm on the net
Trailers all offer hd versions
Games machines are online and you got pc online games - updates, media downloads, music downloads....

Websites themselves with more rich and larger size content, look at ajax concepts

So they need to make the net capable if thats what people are offering, rather then limit the users, but I suppose you can look at the data, if someone is using way over the top then maybe, the % they give is still quite small for that amount.

Yah, I was just saying for example. The bandwitdh costs money, so rather than isps whacking a few quid on subs they shape what theyve already got. Back in the days they could say unlimited cos most of their customers were only using http and email so it averaged out in their favour.

Quote from: neXusBut it is not just illegal downloads these days, People can be classed as high end users just for using legit stuff.

Game patches are just massive and bigger all the time average for a game now for a large patch is say 300mb isnt it? with small ones being 30mb ish

Sky anytime and such you download your shows and movies now
You got radio
As you say youtube
You have the next versions of what youtube is - stage 6 with hd quality video and as that becomes the norm in you camera that will be the norm on the net
Trailers all offer hd versions
Games machines are online and you got pc online games - updates, media downloads, music downloads....

Websites themselves with more rich and larger size content, look at ajax concepts

So they need to make the net capable if thats what people are offering, rather then limit the users, but I suppose you can look at the data, if someone is using way over the top then maybe, the % they give is still quite small for that amount.

300mb is small fry to NTL downloads.
Im on the XL thats 20mb & I get capped everyday. 300mb download only takes 5mins. I can easily download 20gb in 12 hours. Prob nearer 30gb

I doubt if any average home person is dowloading 300mb patches every day.
Even watching you tube or a streaming movie, wont come anywhere near the data rates of someone maxing out a 20mb connection.

Im still with Bulldog (now Pipex owned) and im pretty sure im still on a totally unlimited service. I only get 4mb out of the max 8mb service but it sits at 400-500kb/s pretty much 24/7 and ive never had any complaints.
Was thinking of going to Virgin for the 20Mb but now with caps i guess its not worth it.  

My router is saying i have had 113Mb since 4pm.  Its locked down tighter than a ducks arsehole, and aparrently at 21:17 this evening i had the speed locked down to 1Mb.  it seems the limits they publish arent really what they are managing.  Group of tossers.  

hmm, just trying to pull a Suse DVD down, and it appers they may have decided traffic shaping is a good idea as well.  Suse ISO was coming down at 40k, seemed low, updated trackers.  Still only 40k.  Added a Fedora Core ISO into the torrents and it dropped to 20kish each.  

Can someone else on one of the limited exchanges test this?  if there is anyone who has had "Blazing fast 20Mb" enabled in their area.

Quote from: BeakerCan someone else on one of the limited exchanges test this?  if there is anyone who has had "Blazing fast 20Mb" enabled in their area.

I queued up 10gb at 8.45, went to work & was home 10.45
all downloaded happily