Virgin Media Capping bandwidth 24/7 ?

[The Jackal]

Please find attached my network usage note that I am currently capped and it's only 2pm

I thought that the caps were just between 5pm to 9pm ?

Can someone else confirm this ?

Yep.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...statement.html

I too seem to have being capped, on upload at least. uTorrent can only reach 10k/sec up. It looks like maybe VM are throttling BT... Time to demand a massive discount if they are

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by kryogenik

Yep.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...statement.html

Thanks for the info.

Interesting that 99% of my traffic is SSH but around midday I kicked off some p2p (very small amount only 1k up 20k down). Did the p2p usage trigger the cap I wonder ?

Excellent timing to find this out as I am trialing a new package from VM - I'll be back on the phone tonight to re-negoiate or cancel

I'm not in the trial areas but I'm still being capped. Time to ask for another discount.

[The Jackal]

I've just been asking be* users of caps and speeds and in comparison Virgin is twice as expensive and twice as slow.

It's a no brainer really - Get on the phone and cancel.

Yeah, I've been looking at Be too. As you say, time to switch.

Originally Posted by The Jackal

I've just been asking be* users of caps and speeds and in comparison Virgin is twice as expensive and twice as slow.

It's a no brainer really - Get on the phone and cancel.

Originally Posted by mojo

Yeah, I've been looking at Be too. As you say, time to switch.

Whilst I agree you/we are best to switch to Be* at this time, what will happen if a couple of million switch to them, I wonder?

Originally Posted by foreverwar

Whilst I agree you/we are best to switch to Be* at this time, what will happen if a couple of million switch to them, I wonder?

Quite simply, Unlike VM, Be will apply the upgrades needed to accompany the new customers.

Thing about Be is, if there capacity is full...they wont add more customers unless upgrades have been done to allow it.

Originally Posted by TraxData

Quite simply, Unlike VM, Be will apply the upgrades needed to accompany the new customers.

Thing about Be is, if there capacity is full...they wont add more customers unless upgrades have been done to allow it.

Fact? or assumption?

Originally Posted by foreverwar

Fact? or assumption?

Fact.

[dev]

Originally Posted by foreverwar

Fact? or assumption?

assumption probably, after all bandwidth per customer is going up anyway so they may not necessarily add more customers but the ones already on could easily get speed problems.

Originally Posted by TraxData

Fact.

You have it in writing?

Originally Posted by dev

assumption probably, after all bandwidth per customer is going up anyway so they may not necessarily add more customers but the ones already on could easily get speed problems.

Difference is when capacity is full and users start experiencing speed issues they upgrade.

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Originally Posted by foreverwar

You have it in writing?

Unfortunetly you have to be registered with Be forums to see what i mean, and to do that you need to be a Be customer.

But i can assure you, they dont get all that praise for no reason

[Callumpy]

Originally Posted by TraxData

Fact.

i agree, im on Be* and if you read t&c on their site it does or did say that if they start getting slower cause of more people joining that they will expand

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Originally Posted by TraxData

and to do that you need to be a Be customer.

And also need to remember your username and password