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popper
04-05-2007, 12:24
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/a46103/virgin-to-cut-heavy-downloaders-speeds.html?rss
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Friday, May 4 2007, 10:25 BST

By James Welsh (http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/a46103/virgin-to-cut-heavy-downloaders-speeds.html?rss#), International Editor

Virgin Media has confirmed that it will rollout a traffic management system designed to reduce the downstream speed of customers who download lots of data during peak hours."

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tier M who download over 350MB during peak
downstream speed reduced to 1Mbps and their upstream restricted to 128Kbps for four hours

tier L 2Mbps and their upstream restricted to 192Kbps

tier XL over 3GB during peak will be restricted to 5Mbps down/256Kbps up."

it seems your not even going to get even one Linux DVD at peak times at full speed, even from a nice fast FTP or HTML site , i wonder if the linux ISO servers you download from were are on the VM network and so didnt need to go outside, will/would these restrictions still apply...

zing_deleted
04-05-2007, 12:26
nooooooooooooooooooo not again this info has been posted a couple of times

dilli-theclaw
04-05-2007, 12:28
Please use the search facility - there's enough discussion about this already, thread closed.

Jefferson T

for example here http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12/33613264-traffic-shaping-affecting-all-tiers.html