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RE: Virgin Media free speed boost.

ToRReVeZ — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:19:32 GMT

If virgin is that bad, stop complaining and move to a decent ISP

BE dont slow you speed down until you hit about 500GB a month.

RE: Virgin Media free speed boost.

alan2273 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:45:54 GMT

I was downloading a distro the other night, it was 3.5gb's and it took about 8 hours to download, after looking at the allowances from the link posted by Davo 1, i can understand why now.
I try quite a lot of distros out but probably only a couple a month, so I do not see why i should be penalised.
I am still waiting to be upgraded.:crying:

RE: Virgin Media free speed boost.

Davo1 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:41:51 GMT

[quote][b]theBishopp (14/07/2008)[/b][hr]
That isn't a problem tbh, it's the hardcore downloaders (ie over 200GB a month, every month) that are the problem. [/quote]

Fraid not you dont need to download that much see link, pretty paltry allowances tbh

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

RE: Virgin Media free speed boost.

Kumagoro — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:21:50 GMT

Unfortunately just a bit of heavy downloading will put you over the limit. The problem with
Virgin media is that when you need the speed you lose it. I hardly download a lot over the space
of a month, but on the few days in the month I need to i get punished.

Also its not just going form 10 Mbps to 2 Mbps which is the problem. The ping times sky rocket
and were never like that when it was just 2 Mbps back in the day.

RE: Virgin Media free speed boost.

Spedley — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:30:50 GMT

What does this mean [quote]
Coventry area Stafford, Coventry Complete
Warwick area Lichfield July[/quote]

I'm about 2 miles from Warwick, 10 from Coventry and 50 from Lichfield. Still on 4Meg.

RE: Virgin Media free speed boost.

theBishopp — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:05:38 GMT

[quote][b]PlaneMan (14/07/2008)[/b][hr]Not if your 'good' they dont.
TBH I should be throtteld a lot more than I have been (only happened twice) as I do sometimes go on Linux distros downloading sprees.
It's a non issue for me, might not be the same for anyone else.[/quote]

That isn't a problem tbh, it's the hardcore downloaders (ie over 200GB a month, every month) that are the problem. When I was at BT they sent out letters to around 150 customers who were doing 500GB up to 1200GB a month, every month, warning them they would need to restrict their downloading, or their speed would be restricted. If they still didn't slow down they would then be capped at something like 50GB a month, or they could be let go. The unofficial line (as quoted to me by the regional sales manager, and the region covered the bottom half of England) was "we don't want them, let them sod off to another ISP".

A few Linux distros is hardly going to put you in triple figures every month!

RE: Virgin Media free speed boost.

PlaneMan — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:41:53 GMT

Not if your 'good' they dont.
TBH I should be throtteld a lot more than I have been (only happened twice) as I do sometimes go on Linux distros downloading sprees.
It's a non issue for me, might not be the same for anyone else.

RE: Virgin Media free speed boost.

ricedg — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:38:41 GMT

So they up the speed so that they can throttle it back down again :crazy:

Virgin Media free speed boost.

PlaneMan — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:30:44 GMT

Just checked [url=http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/existingcustomers/faster/schedule.html]here[/url] and saw that the roll out had been completed in my area:w00t:, re-booted my modem, bingo 10Mb up from 4Mb.:D

I was happy with 4Mb, 10 Mb is awseome.