Virgin Media Capping bandwidth 24/7 ?

I work for VM so I am stuck with it and be can only offer me 1mb so the grass aint greener on the other side atleast with VM I can get 5Mb even tho I am traffic shaped

[The Jackal]

Well I'm just going to waste as much bandwidth as I possibly can and see what the graph looks like after a week.

Runs every minute as a cronjob.

cat waste_bandwidth.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Net::SCP;
use Proc::Simple;

$lock='/tmp/important-process';

die("Already using bandwidth\n") if (-e "$lock");

$myproc = Proc::Simple->new();

$myproc->start(\&download);
sleep(61);
$myproc->poll() && $myproc->kill();

sub download {
$scp = Net::SCP->new( "static", "root" );
chdir(/tmp/);
while(1) {
$scp->get("/var/log/apache2/access_log") or die $scp->{errstr};
}
$scp->quit();
}

This is insufferable - it's not just that you get throttled to death almost every waking hour, the speeds attainable under shaping are pathetic. Even with no downloads doing, web pages time out, email fails to send etc. With 5k/sec upload on a torrent most stuff fails to load.

I could just about accept the 4pm-9pm thing since I was only paying £25 for XL, but now my connection is useless.

[TehTech]

Originally Posted by mojo

This is insufferable - it's not just that you get throttled to death almost every waking hour, the speeds attainable under shaping are pathetic. Even with no downloads doing, web pages time out, email fails to send etc. With 5k/sec upload on a torrent most stuff fails to load.

I could just about accept the 4pm-9pm thing since I was only paying £25 for XL, but now my connection is useless.

Which is what THEY want!!

The less they give US, the long-time customers, the more new customers they can cram onto the already WELL OVER-SUBSCRIBED network!!

[Welshchris]

on sunday i came home around 4:15pm after being away for 2 days and the pc and modem had been off, i switched them on and started PC, only thing to download was an update for my Antivirus which is Avast pro....

When browsing the net i realised it was sluggish so i did a test on a download from their gamesfiles site and found i was getting a max of 88kb/s download.... i posted on their newsgroup and i had a reply that said my connection was being STM'd...

So i was instantly STM's from start.