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cook1984 · 23-04-2009, 00:28

It might explain why speeds have dropped a lot lately though. A friend of a friend of a friend is mixed up in all that dodgy business and he reckons about half of Portsmouth is doing it.

In fact, one of the guys who used to work at the same place I do used to do it. We still get people coming in looking for him with a Tesco bag containing something modem shaped every time VM knock a few of them out.

Having said all that, it really does just look like VM are starting the throttling/STM on 50 meg earlier than most people expected them to. Probably to limit the damage done by all the cloners, since they apparently thought it couldn't be done and have no doubt been caught out by the sudden rise in bandwidth requirements.

23-04-2009, 00:28	#127
cook1984 Inactive Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 556	Re: 50 crap down to 3meg CAPPED It might explain why speeds have dropped a lot lately though. A friend of a friend of a friend is mixed up in all that dodgy business and he reckons about half of Portsmouth is doing it. In fact, one of the guys who used to work at the same place I do used to do it. We still get people coming in looking for him with a Tesco bag containing something modem shaped every time VM knock a few of them out. Having said all that, it really does just look like VM are starting the throttling/STM on 50 meg earlier than most people expected them to. Probably to limit the damage done by all the cloners, since they apparently thought it couldn't be done and have no doubt been caught out by the sudden rise in bandwidth requirements.