10mb download caps

[simon8298]

i just noticed today my service went up to 10mb..

Any one know if the traffic shaping is the same as on 4mb? or can i download more than 800mb in the evening??


i appoigise in advance if this has allready been asked, just that i am mad busy at the mo and do not have the time to check through loads and loads of pages


cheers...
simon

[ceedee]

Somebody did post the STM limits for 10Mb connections a while ago but I can't find it by searching CF.

If I remember correctly, there was no increase in the download limit but a (meaninglessly) small increase in the permitted upload.

Sorry to disappoint...

[Sput]

i just noticed today my service went up to 10mb..

Any one know if the traffic shaping is the same as on 4mb? or can i download more than 800mb in the evening??


i appoigise in advance if this has allready been asked, just that i am mad busy at the mo and do not have the time to check through loads and loads of pages


cheers...
simon

This article explains how Virgin traffic shape:-

http://blog.p2pvine.com/to-virgin-me...ther-05042008/

[Acathla]

Your link doesn't work :(
hopefully corrected it for you :)

http://blog.p2pvine.com/to-virgin-media-we-the-customers-dont-like-traffic-jams-either-05042008/

[joglynne]

Details of the new Traffic Management for 10MB :-As customers are upgraded, the traffic management policy for the upgraded package changes accordingly.

In areas where 10Mb speeds are available, the top 3% of downloaders download at least 800MB of traffic each during the peak period each evening, with the top 3% of uploaders uploading at least 400MB of traffic in the same period.

Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till 9pm) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed – their download speed will be set to 2.5Mb, with their upload speed set to 128Kb. This will last for 5 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.

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

[ceedee]

Thanks Jo.
I scanned down that page and couldn't see anything about 10Mb -- must be my poor old eyes after not enough sleep. Or my withering brain.

At least my distant recollection of an increase in the upload limit wasn't a brain fart too?
Did I mention my withering brain?
And my short-term memory loss?
What about my feet? They're terrible some days...

:nutter:

[homealone]

Thanks Jo.
I scanned down that page and couldn't see anything about 10Mb -- must be my poor old eyes after not enough sleep. Or my withering brain.

At least my distant recollection of an increase in the upload limit wasn't a brain fart too?
Did I mention my withering brain?
And my short-term memory loss?
What about my feet? They're terrible some days...

:nutter:


In areas where 10Mb speeds are available, the top 3% of downloaders download at least 800MB of traffic each during the peak period each evening, with the top 3% of uploaders uploading at least 400MB of traffic in the same period.

Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till 9pm) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed – their download speed will be set to 2.5Mb, with their upload speed set to 128Kb. This will last for 5 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.

2.5 mb download, not 1 mb :tu:

- interesting that at the 10mb tier it is the same 3% who are the culprits at peak times :D