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Originally Posted by totalwar
Just sign up to Netflix a few months ago and got a warning from Virg9in about the amount of data that I am consuming.It is a lot of data but doing nothing illegal just watching movies.I paying £34 pounds a month which is not cheap.If you want to use sky go or lovemovies or any other service like this and virgin moan how much data we use just not fair.This is the future the way pay is going Virgin and sky want to much money.
Measurement Period: 30days 10h:2m:53s
Data Downloaded: 412GB 0Bytes
Data Uploaded: 57GB 318MB
Here the standard letter from them.
Want a faster broadband service in the evening? Read on!
As you may know with Virgin Broadband we don't limit the amount that you can download. However, we've recently noticed an unusually large amount of data being transferred over your broadband connection (daily between mid-day and midnight) at our busiest network time and this may have resulted in your connection being managed under our traffic management policy (you can review this policy at virginmedia.com/traffic).
To help you better manage your broadband performance and to keep things running smoothly here are a few tips:
1. Move 'non time critical' usage to after midnight
Okay that might sound late, but actually it's easy to schedule downloading big files such as Movies until then. Check out our FAQs and details of how to schedule downloads on common software at virginmedia.com/peaktimefaq
2. Make sure your PC security software is up to date and active
Not having security software installed or up to date can really slow you down. Try using Virgin Media Security. It's free and covers all the major security threats. Learn more and download by going to virginmedia.com/security.
3. Make sure your Wi-Fi is secure
Check that your wireless router is password protected and that you've got encryption switched on. Neighbours or anyone in your Wi-Fi range could be using your connection without your knowledge and slowing you down. For more detail on how to avoid this and change these settings go to virginmedia.com/help/wireless.
4. Other members of your household eating up your connection
Large amounts of uploading or downloading could be taking place without your knowledge. The most common application to use large amounts of data is file sharing software. If you use a Windows 98 or XP computer and you're unsure whether file sharing software is installed on computers in your home, or you wish to remove it if it is, a software utility called Digital File Check* is available that can check for you.
This can be found at ifpi.org/dfc * You can also learn more about File Sharing by going to our FAQ virginmedia.com/peaktimefaq
We strongly recommend that you follow these tips in order to get the best broadband performance in future. Especially the first tip of scheduling non-time critical downloads.
There are several tools you can use to check how much you're downloading or uploading such as tbbMeter (thinkbroadband.com/tbbmeter.html *) and there are others available at softpedia.com *
Thank you for your attention.
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When did you get this letter, I was under the impression they are no longer sending these out ?