Re: Virgin Media To Lose 'Unlimited' Or Detrimental Usage Policy
 

Re: Virgin Media To Lose 'Unlimited' Or Detrimental Usage Policy
 

It entirely depends what you do with your connection of course as to how inconvenient, or otherwise, a bit cap is.

If ISPs en masse started capping there may be a struggle for those downloading a ton to find places to go. It will be interesting to see what ISPs do in response to the new regulations.

Re: Virgin Media To Lose 'Unlimited' Or Detrimental Usage Policy
 

IMO what they should do is drop the unlimited claim. Of course they probably won't be doing that - my guess is that like BT they'll rely on shaping and the "upto" so you can't claim that limiting P2P and NNTP to speeds only slightly better than dialup is in fact a limited service. The problem with that is they can't or at least don't catch all heavy usage.

Maybe they'll go for something like a more gradual STM where speed reduces as the bits mount up. I think I may have already seen something like this but as my area is awaiting a fix as it's oversubscribed it's difficult to decide just why speeds have gone down the toilet.

Re: Virgin Media To Lose 'Unlimited' Or Detrimental Usage Policy
 

300Gb is a lot of data! They also want each household to purchase this broadband product, imagine if you started reselling it to your neighbours via wifi, if it was unlimited you would get away with it, by capping it, you are likely to keep it to yourself and not share it! I don't always believe that whole traffic management thing is done to stop an overload of traffic, why not just create more bandwith? They don't seem to have a problem with Businesses

Re: Virgin Media To Lose 'Unlimited' Or Detrimental Usage Policy
 

Businesses pay a lot more than consumers (he says as someone who buys 100Mb and 1Gb links...).

Re: Virgin Media To Lose 'Unlimited' Or Detrimental Usage Policy
 

Never had a month where i do less than 1.7 tb!!!!.

But at the end of the day that's why i pay £42 per month!

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Geez, that's a lot of porn.

Re: Virgin Media To Lose 'Unlimited' Or Detrimental Usage Policy
 

Never have any speed issues with my connection either always get 51.4mb night or day.....

Re: Virgin Media To Lose 'Unlimited' Or Detrimental Usage Policy
 

You're in for some fun when traffic management version 2 kicks in, being based around both congestion and personal usage. :)

You shouldn't be paying £42/month though, should be £25. Well it should be more like £420/month but that's another story!

Re: Virgin Media To Lose 'Unlimited' Or Detrimental Usage Policy
 

Is that speculation i hear???

as that's all that seems to be around at the moment, nothing concrete..

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1.7tb?

Dear sweet merciful biscuits. What *are* you pulling down? I'd presume whole series and films, but when would you ever get time to watch it all? I've always thought I used quite a lot of bandwidth and I rarely get over 120Gb a month.

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Nope. Details to be confirmed but the overall scheme is potentially unpleasant for someone with your usage patterns.

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And that's the whole reason why vm has traffic management/shaping during the daytime. Not because there are capacity problems, there aren't. The network is largely unused during the daytime and vm want to keep it that way so that they can utilise it for business use and make more money out of it.

I'm not against vm wanting to make as much cash as they can from their assets, but I wish they would be honest and state this clearly. As said here, if I pay a wad of cash to vm for internet use, I want to use it when I want to, not when VM want me to which is the middle of the night.

Re: Virgin Media To Lose 'Unlimited' Or Detrimental Usage Policy
 

It's like you are psychic or something ;)

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...cy/td-p/848899

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Can anyone confirm , are VM thinking of opening the BB network to other companies , someone told me it was mentioned in the VM presentation below around 23 mins in. Not registered so haven't listened.

http://www.media-server.com/m/p/p8sx9tmt