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Originally Posted by welshman213
Are you saying that all usenet traffic, regardless of how much you download is managed?
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Ya, to be fair though I tend to do all my downloading over night or early in the morning because I know it is going to be busy in the evenings and I hate seeing my downloads go at half speed when I know they can potentially go a lot faster so it doesn't really bother me that much. This is the blab:
"We also moderate the total volume of file sharing traffic on our network between 5pm and midnight on weekdays and midday and midnight on weekends. This policy, which applies to all broadband packages, is restricted to Peer to Peer (“P2P”) applications and Newsgroups (which are commonly used to distribute large amounts of data)
This policy does not impact any applications other than Peer to Peer and Newsgroups, so things like watching iPlayer, online gaming, making calls via Skype, downloading music tracks from iTunes or streaming them from Spotify and sending an email or normal browsing are unaffected.
It's important to remember that these traffic management policies only apply at peak times when speeds are most likely to be affected by people using more than their fair share. Outside of peak times we do not manage traffic."
If you want to read all the rubbish where they make it sound like they are doing you a huge favour have a look here:
http://help.virginmedia.com/system/s...CUSTOMER_TYPE=