Originally by: Bimjo

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Originally by: Othran

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They do at least document this - basically use your connection to the full for an hour between 4pm and midnight and they will throttle you back - all the way down to 1Mbps IIRC.

Easier for some to blame CCP though rather than recognise they pay a supplier that has been bankrupt more ofetn than not in the last decade....

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I know, initially it was brought in to throttle torrent downloads, but now it throttles all types of downloads,not fair

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Originally by: Kara Xandi

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Edited by: Kara Xandi on 10/03/2009 20:23:02
With Virgin myself, on the 20Mb connection and I too had to download for 2 clients. Did so without a hiccup, at the proper speed. No matter what I have ever downloaded they have never throttled it down, in fact I have never heard of them doing this. Anything else running in the background?



BTW don't touch BT, they're poo.

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Originally by: Xen Gin

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Originally by: Othran

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Originally by: Dani Leone

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Originally by: Othran

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ALL of Virgins products - yes even the 50Mbps service - are traffic shaped at ALL times. You get throttled as per their website. IF you don't read the emails they sent about this (YES THEY DID) and you can't be arsed to check what you're paying for then I have a complete lack of sympathy.

Perhaps the recession will concentrate your tiny minds eh?

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I have every email that has been sent to me over the past 7 years archived away (yes I am that anal) and none from Virgin mention anything of the sort.

Aside from your lovely self righteous trolling, Virgin's website has a section on this traffic management and its not currently being 'tested' in my area, officially at least.

I'd advise any other Virgin customers with the same issue, ring them on 151 from your virgin phone and complain.

I already have been offered a small rebate for my troubles and the guys in India have been very polite and helpful in assisting me so far.

As despite having upgraded some time ago I have been throttled as if I am on a 10mb connection and am now waiting for the issue to be dealt with :)

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No you don't. You HAD TO agree to the new T&Cs some two years ago. End of story. No trolling required as you're quite obviously stupid.

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I was with NTL since 2002, I don't remember VM sending me a new T&C for me to sign when they took over.

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Originally by: Radioactive Babe

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Originally by: Hostage Ballinger

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If you work in the industry you should be well aware that around 6 months ago it was in the London papers. Cannot remember exactly which one. I am pretty sure it was Metro that Virgin Media publicly stated that the were capping people's downloads on large files to try and stop people downloading movies, films and the like illegally.

No one else is doing this. My contract I signed does not state this. So what am I paying for??? I pay for 10 mb connection and it is downloading at less than dial up??

And a troll is an alias for general griefing. Stop flaming legitimate posts

http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/05/05/virgin-media-introduce-speed-caps/

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Hehe, I think you'll find that Virgin also got a newserver that is on-network. I have been doing all my downloading at full line speed Keep away from torrents, they are all traffic shaped. If you cant keep away from them then ssl them and try and hide your traffic

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