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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

are you in one of the areas they have put the caps on though?

Im more than a little annoyed at Virgin now, ive taken the opinion that as im going to hit the limits anyway there is no point in trying to be a "good" user and im hitting the connection for everything I want.

worst case is that if youre on 10mb atm, youll get halved to 5mb.
For those on 20mb their cap is 10mb; big deal ?

Its basically like saying that youll get 20mb during off-peak times, with the connection *possibly* slowing to 10mb during peak times.

Quote from: Nimrodworst case is that if youre on 10mb atm, youll get halved to 5mb.
For those on 20mb their cap is 10mb; big deal ?

Its basically like saying that youll get 20mb during off-peak times, with the connection *possibly* slowing to 10mb during peak times.

im on 2Mb though, because I personally have no need for anything faster.  so i get my speed dropped to 1Mb, what is the real kicker though is the slice of the upload speed to 128k, the download kill i wouldnt mind so much, the upload means that if we have 2 PCs on the net its like crawling through wet sand.

Wouldnt you have to be maxing out your 2mb for about 4 hours to hit 3gb ?

My brain is too frazzled to do the math atm but if thats the case and you are maxing it out that solid then I dont see how you can justify being on 2mb anyway.

Ive had my 20 1/2d to 10 & then the 10 1/2d to 5

gets reset sometime during the night..

AND theyve started blocking TCP25 which I am NOT happy about. My mail server conforms to all the RFCs yet I cant use it because I happen to get my Internet connection from the same people that some spammers do. G A Y.

How are you redirecting the MX and DNS records back to your NTL IP ? I didnt think it was possible because its DHCP ?

The limit for the speed halving on 2Mbit is 350MB not 3GB Nimrod, so its still about 20min of full use.

ahh right, I see.

Change ISP.... simple.

Im currently (after a long adsl hiatus of about 3 years) signed up with aaisp.net - no ports blocked, only a rather low bw cap during business hours, which if you are out at work during the day, doesnt hurt cos it turns into no cap from 6pm.

Also, how many ISPs do you know who will give you a set of IPs for nothing (I asked for a /29 and got a /29, but I bet you could ask for many more if you needed them).

Quote from: TRBChange ISP.... simple.

oddy enough changing from one ISP to another sounds easy, however it isnt when all your stuff is cable not BT, and you are moving in a couple of months.  Ill put up with their crap for now, but im moving to Demon Business 2000 when I get the new place, Ill also have a 4Mb ADSL from work, but itll be monitored, so anything slightly grey wont be allowed on it.

Quote from: NimrodHow are you redirecting the MX and DNS records back to your NTL IP ? I didnt think it was possible because its DHCP ?

I was with Blueyonder...since about a year ago DHCP leases were based on MAC address...so you always got the same IP aslong as you didnt change macs.

Before that I had my MX record point to a no-ip address rather than an IP. Now I use 3rd party services which does mail reflecting on a non-standard port and gives me a SMTP relay too.

service does seem to have got pretty poor under virgin. I was an old blueyonder customer, constantly hit my download maximum, 10mbit got 1.1mb/s, 4mbit got 490kb/s, downtime was pretty much a few hours every 6 months, i couldnt have wished for a better isp.

then along come virgin

Quote from: SwissToniservice does seem to have got pretty poor under virgin. I was an old blueyonder customer, constantly hit my download maximum, 10mbit got 1.1mb/s, 4mbit got 490kb/s, downtime was pretty much a few hours every 6 months, i couldnt have wished for a better isp.

then along come virgin

and since they dropped 20Mb round here the service has SUCKED.  My pings get up to 800ms in the evening while just browsin.  Before they did the deployment it was usually around the 100ms mark, even at the busiest times.  According to Virgin/NTL support this isnt an issue!

I am with you on this one Beaker. Since Virgin took over and the throttling came in my line has fallen well below par. They havent rolled out the 20mb in my area as yet but I am on the 10mb. No matter what time of the day I cant get better than 200kbs where as with BY I would get 1100kbs.

It seems to me that the throttling isnt working as it should. I am on for no more than an hour or two a night when I get in to check emails play a few games and general browsing with the odd upgrade/game patch.

Virgin wont do a thing about it as the monkeys on the phones are just reading off scripts (Also notice from July 1st Virgin are going to charge you £1/min for this support line), they wont put you through to higher departments and its getting beyond a joke now. Game pings have jumped from sub 25ms to anything from 300 - 4000ms and this is on the same servers I have always played on.

Downloads from the BY/Virgin game file servers are no better either. Constant packet loss and ping spikes.