[Merged] STM with yet more restrictions starts
 

as the title says?

Re: Whens the new stm rules coming
 

its introducted today..afaik.

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The traffic management page has already been updated but surprise surprise it's got some wrong info on it
http://www.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management.php

Quote from Alex Brown
This applies to cable customers only, and we will commence the rollout
when all the customer communications are finished. I'll drop by to
update people at this stage.

Looks like full rollout once they've sent the letters out to the people using their service.

Re: Whens the new stm rules coming
 

wow I can use my connection overnight and a few hrs of the morning thats CRAP

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Yeh think of all the things you can download between 3 and 4pm :rolleyes:

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I know and with a oversubscripted area I might be able to do window updates

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Does anyone know if it is possible to drop just broadband if you are in a 12 month contract? Cause, I have 3 for 30 with XL upgrade but i would be looking at dropping to 2 for 20 phone and tv and then getting broadband from O2 and would just use the BT line for the BB cause there is already one in the dining room where the main computer is

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I can honestly say that so far I've only been hit by STM once and that was hubbys fault.
He started 2 downloads of the same thing from two diff places to see which one he'd get faster.
You should have seen his face when I told him he'd got us restricted to 500 instead of over 2000. A gamer he may be, a maths geek he isn't.

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You could only lower the broadband to M you cant have 2for£20 as you already have a bundle

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Not here; downloaded just over 3GB on my 4MB connection and still going strong at 480KB/s.

Virgin Media will double the number of hours it throttles the bandwidth
 

Virgin Media will double the number of hours it throttles the bandwidth of customers who hammer its network day and night, changes to its traffic management policy have revealed.

The tightened regime means that between 10am and 3pm subscribers to its "M", "L" and "XL" packages will have their connection throttled for five hours if they download more than their full speed ration.

The decision follows recent regional testing of extended restrictions in London and the North West. Previously the brakes were only slammed on for five hours if limits were exceeded at any point between 4pm and 9pm.

Now, "M" customers who bust 900MB during the day will have their theoretical maximum download halved from 2Mbit/s to 1Mbit/s. "L" and "XL" users' usual headline speeds of 10MBit/s and 20MBit/s will be slowed by three quarters if they break daytime download limits of 2400MB and 6000MB respectively.

The download thresholds for the daytime throttling period are double those of the evening period, which also restricts uploads. We've reproduced Virgin Media's explanatory table below:

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Virgin Media says that at current levels of demand, one per cent of its 3.8 million customers will be affected by the new daytime restrictions. In the evening, when ISP networks are under most strain, traffic limits are aimed at the top five per cent heaviest users. Virgin Media does not currently target particular types of traffic such as peer-to-peer, preferring to throttle bandwidth across all protocols.

A spokesman said the new rules are necessary to ensure quality of service for the majority. The move will nevertheless anger some who have been tricked into believing that "unlimited" broadband actually exists by years of crummy marketing by the ISP industry.

The cable monopoly, created by the merger of NTL and Telewest in 2006, is currently working to boost its top speed to 50MBit/s as part of its strategy to put broadband at the centre of its quadruple-play offering. recent trials to ramp Virgin Media's 10Gbit/s backhaul to 40GBit/s in support of the upgrade were successful. ®

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so now i get to pay 37 quid to use my Internet at the full speed i bought it at for 3 hours a day?
i must say we all thought virgin was committing corporate suicide with the 4pm - 9pm now we have 10am - 3pm lol

go nuts guys 1 hour downloading basically a day... good luck handing over 37 pounds a month for something
your only getting to use 3 hours a working day.

Re: Virgin Media will double the number of hours it throttles the bandwidth
 

I get 20mb for £25 a month do peolpe realy pay £37 a month

Re: Whens the new stm rules coming
 

You can scrap that overnight downloading soon as well.

Daytime STM is introduced because evening stm made everyone download during the day (rather than the night)...

Now this is making everyone download full whack soon as 9pm hits...and its already being noted how much its starting to cripple things in some areas.

Overnight STM is on the tables now!

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Well if they do that I hope everyone drops them. Then they will have plenty of bandwith ;)

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Most people wont...as you know how VM like to hide the STM pages ;)

VM had plenty of bandwith...they are just oversubcribing all the time...and refuse to do any upgrades...