Thread: Virgin Media Traffic control avoidance, Any good software out there?
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Old 04-11-2008, 11:02   #14
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Re: Virgin Media Traffic control avoidance, Any good software out there?
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Originally Posted by bazza999 View Post
Hi All,

Just wanted to know if anyone had internet activity monitoring programs which allow you to e.g. slow down internet
downloads once you have reached a certain limit. E.g. currently Virgin Media (UK) policy is that:

Between 10am-4pm: Max download 2.5gb (for me anyway with a 10meg connection)
Between 4pm-9pm 1.5gb
9pm onwards - unlimited

I know Virgin don't strictly stop you downloading more, but they limit my 10meg to 3meg for 5 freaking hours (which I think is abit much), so I'd rather not hit those levels.

Currently I'm using BWMeter which is great in that it will tell me how much has been downloaded / uploaded per hour, but it won't let me put in the above parameters (i.e. between xam-xpm xgb before stopping downloads),
though it does let me put in parameters per day i.e. in 24hr period, max download xgig before slowing down / stopping connection. Incidentally it can also separately report LAN traffic from Internet, so thats handy.


Any ideas? I'm sure there are several of us in the same boat, and i'm sure someone has already sorted a way of doing it so please share!

I also use a router and as someone else mentioned, I know routers do send their own packets back, but really I'm sure they don't come to more than 50meg, so you could always account for that when putting limits in.

Thanks in advance

Baz
I have to admit, I do not really understand why you want to do this.. You don't want to be speed limited by Virgin, so you are doing it your self? What's the point? You are still being limited.

As for your point about routers. They will be sending ACKnowledgement packets when receiving data. They *may* send NTP requests from time to time to synchronise their clocks with an external time server and the *may* check for and download firmware occassionally (although I know of none that do this without user intervention). All of this uses a relatively small amount of data I suspect to get anywhere near 50 meg you would need many routers in the house. Possibly hundreds.
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