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Paulo Damarr
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Posted - 2007.11.28 03:26:00 -
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I have Virgin but its cable, If they throttled any games I would have the contract annulled as I have the XL Broadband which is advertised amongst other things as "For online gaming"
If its only for their ADSL customers it might be something outside of their networks control that's why it doesn't apply to their cable network *hopefully*
 Originally by: Tortun Nahme
CCP also condones thinking, I suggest you try it from tiem to time
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Paulo Damarr
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Posted - 2007.11.28 23:28:00 -
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I hope to god they dont carry these restrictions over to the cable service as well, I'm in hole as I have the full package of broadband, HD TV, land line phone and mobile phone.
If they ruin the broadband I can probably get out of the contract but I would need to get all my other services from elsewhere  .
Originally by: Tortun Nahme
CCP also condones thinking, I suggest you try it from tiem to time
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Paulo Damarr
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Posted - 2007.11.29 01:32:00 -
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Originally by: Cailais
Virgins announcement -
Linkage
Thankfully I changed isp provider a few months ago - close call!
C.
Phew thats not to unreasonable with my package,
Quote:
Broadband Size: XL
During peak times, the top 5% on the Size: XL package download at least 3GB of traffic each.
Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till midnight) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed û their download speed will be set to 5Mb, with their upload speed set to 256Kb. This will last for 4 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.
Even if a Broadband Size: XL user has their speed temporarily traffic managed, they can still download over 4,000 music files per day.
That's not to bad even with these speeds gaming should not be affected as that's the speed of most connections and that's if you even reach the limits. 3GB at peak times would be difficult to reach just playing online games with casual downloading of files.
The limits for the slower speeds are harsher though and it might be a poor attempt at providing "incentive" for customers to upgrade.
Originally by: Tortun Nahme
CCP also condones thinking, I suggest you try it from tiem to time
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Paulo Damarr
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Posted - 2007.12.11 05:36:00 -
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I still have no problems with virgin media or any software, I must be just lucky.
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Paulo Damarr
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Posted - 2007.12.12 05:56:00 -
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Originally by: zilllii
the problem isnt the bandwith but the fact that the UK ISP's and their telephone companies are to damn cheap to put fibre cables in the ground so it will be enough.
they are just cheap bastids who tries to milk every penny they can from every bit of traffic.
FYI a good proportion of the Virgin network is fibre optics and has been for over ten years, A company called Com tell installed it in 1994 and then Com tell and Cable and wireless and some other smaller local providers where swallowed up and ended up in NTL which merged with Telewest which then in turn became Virgin media.
Just for reference I found a older article where VM admitted "crap service"
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