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Originally Posted by Sigma
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.
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because they are slowly but surely realising, that it is not those of us that download and upload a fair bit, but is in fact the non-computer/internet literate generation they have irresponsibly released onto the internet with all their dam "on demand" services and time shifted tv !! that are sucking up hugeeeeee amounts of bandwidth by streaming HD material to their TV sets all night, and i think you'll also find that the 30 million trillion gaming machines all hooking up to play online is also placing a massive draw on resources everywhere,when lets face it, it was not exactly designed for that.
I too am seeing really really dismal speeds of VM newsgroup access at various times of the day, yet if i shift into my astraweb account, using SSL and port 563 instead of 119 (for theVM servers) i am seeing nearly double the speed at times. Trouble is my astra web account is for a pre-paid block of bandwidth, so don't want to hit it that much, once they stop doing free access via VM, and they will at some point, i'll shift to a full astraweb account with unlimited bandwidth, i have been very impressed with not only the speed and stability of their servers but also the massive retention period