Originally Posted by Sigma (Post 35117280)

If you use SSL does it get round the traffic shaping? Comments I've read seem to suggest that that's the case.

Why couldn't they just leave the system as it is? I thought that the traffic management was there to deal with the "5%" of people downloading/uploading large amounts. Now my connection is being crippled with traffic shaping as well as traffic management and I'm losing anywhere from 60% to 95% of my connection speed for up to 12 hours a day. I'm not buying the "it's not financially viable not to have it" thing at all, considering Virgin Media's profits are on the up.

Originally Posted by vmfriend (Post 35117494)

Without wanting to offend someone, but what exactly is Giganews used for ?

Originally Posted by keepitretro (Post 35117498)

How long till they restrict em all tho???

Lucky i only have 1 month left on my contract 50mb btw... if it starts getting bad on all ports, think i am just gonna downgrade to 20mb and use vpn as its difficult to get full speeds of vpn with 50mb...

Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23 (Post 35117528)

http://vpnuk.net/shared-ip.html they provide up to 100mb

Originally Posted by keepitretro (Post 35117498)

How long till they restrict em all tho???

Lucky i only have 1 month left on my contract 50mb btw... if it starts getting bad on all ports, think i am just gonna downgrade to 20mb and use vpn as its difficult to get full speeds of vpn with 50mb...

Originally Posted by keepitretro (Post 35117566)

What speeds do you get via giganews vpn amst
erdam server?

Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 35117507)

In simple terms it is a newsgroups provider where you pay a small monthly fee to get access to newsgroups where you can simply download whatever is on their servers.

Originally Posted by vmfriend (Post 35117816)

So what could possibly be on their servers that would warrant someone wanting to pay for the privilege of doing so and why would VM want to restrict speed to such servers ?

Originally Posted by Jayster (Post 35117822)

Im sure you can guess what the majority of content on there is, Although newsgroups where not designed for it and have been around since before the web as we know it. However I believe the reason most people are complaining is because of how badly the system has been implemented.