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VirginOnInsaniy · 26-11-2007, 00:57

I know this is a ADSL issue but I have been asked to make a post because it might be coming to Virgin cable customers sometime soon.

My Kids online RPGs stopped working on Friday (Fly for fun and Fiesta) The service has been real poor lately so I usually reboot my router till i get a better bam show up on "Ping Plotter". None of the other bams fixed the problem despite getting some better than usual pings.

I have had good pings before with really poor download speeds, so I ran the "Thinkbroadband" speed tester. But It wouldnt complete the test! unless port 80 was selected.

I spent the rest of the night trying to figure out what was going on I even dug out my old Speedtouch modem just in case my router was playing up.

Around 2 AM the games and the speed tester started working again. It looked like Virgin ADSL was port blocking at peak times.

Next day the block was back on, so I rang Virgin to have it sorted. A very nice guy checked my account and confirmed there was no restrictions on it. But did say a new filtering system started on Friday and "NO" there's nothing he could do about it. A least I knew the problem was not on my end.

That night at 1AM all started working again.

I have been with Virgin ADSL broadband since they started and used to get a 4 meg download speeds when ADSL max was enabled. This year its been going slowly downhill, sometimes getting 100k connections to some servers! Rebooting can usually get a quicker connection, most of the time.

This filtering is a real disturbing turn. I have two autistic kids who live for their online games and miss the friends they have made on them. They can't stay up till 1AM.

I'm so disgusted I'm changing ISP but I'm stuck with Virgin for the next 9 days. Any ideas on how to get round this? any suggestions are more that welcome.

Again I know its only affecting ADSL customers at the moment! But I might be saving someone that premium rate call to Virgin with this post.

Thanks in advance.

26-11-2007, 00:57	#1
VirginOnInsaniy Inactive Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 8	Warning Speedtester and RPGs blocked!! I know this is a ADSL issue but I have been asked to make a post because it might be coming to Virgin cable customers sometime soon. My Kids online RPGs stopped working on Friday (Fly for fun and Fiesta) The service has been real poor lately so I usually reboot my router till i get a better bam show up on "Ping Plotter". None of the other bams fixed the problem despite getting some better than usual pings. I have had good pings before with really poor download speeds, so I ran the "Thinkbroadband" speed tester. But It wouldnt complete the test! unless port 80 was selected. I spent the rest of the night trying to figure out what was going on I even dug out my old Speedtouch modem just in case my router was playing up. Around 2 AM the games and the speed tester started working again. It looked like Virgin ADSL was port blocking at peak times. Next day the block was back on, so I rang Virgin to have it sorted. A very nice guy checked my account and confirmed there was no restrictions on it. But did say a new filtering system started on Friday and "NO" there's nothing he could do about it. A least I knew the problem was not on my end. That night at 1AM all started working again. I have been with Virgin ADSL broadband since they started and used to get a 4 meg download speeds when ADSL max was enabled. This year its been going slowly downhill, sometimes getting 100k connections to some servers! Rebooting can usually get a quicker connection, most of the time. This filtering is a real disturbing turn. I have two autistic kids who live for their online games and miss the friends they have made on them. They can't stay up till 1AM. I'm so disgusted I'm changing ISP but I'm stuck with Virgin for the next 9 days. Any ideas on how to get round this? any suggestions are more that welcome. Again I know its only affecting ADSL customers at the moment! But I might be saving someone that premium rate call to Virgin with this post. Thanks in advance.