Re: Cable modem

["domdevitto" <dom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, I wasn't happy with this - nobody in the company was, except the
product folks, who convinced themselves they could just blab their way
out of any media mess.

The bottom line is that P2P munches bandwidth.  Other ISPs limit by
monthly total, to prevent people using P2P all the time.  VM just
throttles people back by 50% at times when it could interfere with
other customers.  With VM, you don't get a letter, and it's totally
transparent to the user, so it's a pretty good solution, if you MUST
to have a 'solution'.

If the choice is 'max bandwidth limits per month, pay per GB over
that', as per my current and other ISPs, or 'all you can eat, outside
peak times, and half the max speed during those times' I know what I'd
go for...

Dom
--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Wayne <Wayne@...> wrote:
>
> I found out the other day that Virgins new T's and C's include auto
> capping of your line!
>
>
> I had been doing some research as to possible slow problems I was
> getting and had to keep rebooting the modem to get the speeds back -
> albeit for a few mins - then another reboot.
>
> After a bit of googleing it was reading that 'some' areas apparently
had
> capping in place. On response to an email I sent to Virgins tech
support
> - they confirmed that the new T's &C's had auto capping. From what
I've
> read - with the XL service if you download more than 3gb per day in
the
> 'busy' times  (4pm until midnight) then you get auto throttled back to
> silly slow rates. After midnight you are OK but any point before
that if
> you get above your 3gb mark then you are auto capped for 4 hours! - so
> you peak at 1 min to midnight - then you cant get the speeds back
until
> 3:59!
>
> While I've been typing this I was trying to find the email that the
> Virgin tech team sent - but alas - deleted in anger :) I DID find the
> link again, not through searching on the Virgin broadband site
directly
> but from an article on 'The Register' !
> http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html
>
> The Registers article is ->
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/08/vigin_nationwide_throttling/
>
> Interestingly I sent a reply back to Virgin asking who I can
complain to
> as I hadn't signed up for 'this' service - to which I haven't had
> anything back yet....
>
> The conspiracy theorists amongst us may think that the network cant
take
> the strain of all these XL users wanting to go outside the Virgin
> network but that's another debate!
>
>
> Enjoy!
> Wayne.
>
>
>
>
> domdevitto wrote:
> > --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Mal Lansell <mal@> wrote:
> >
> >> Actually on cable you should usually get the quoted speed.
> >> In the past I've often downloaded large files at the full
10Mbps.
> >>
> >
> > Yep, 'cable if you can' :-)
> >
> >
> >> It's only since NTL became Virgin Media that the speed has
dropped.
> >> Strangely enough when I phoned them, they asked me to
download a
> >> test file, and I got the 10Mbps, but downloading it later my
speed
> >> was back to 7Mbps.
> >>
> >
> > Nope, apart from the 'STM' changes, you should still be able to
> > download at 20meg, if your modem and PC/OS can handle it.  7 is
around
> > the max for some of the older modems...?
> >
> >
> >> If I were a cynical man (who, moi?), I'd suspect something
fishy was
> >> going on...
> >>
> >
> > STM could smell fishy :-(  but you'd still get 10meg, just not
20.
> >
> > Dom
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