You've heard of Traffic Management, well they've started a new one now.

Originally Posted by WHISTLED

Porn, the same as everyone else!?

Who needs porn when you have the real thing at your side

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by TraxData

Who needs porn when you have the real thing at your side

Well said.

Originally Posted by TraxData

Who needs porn when you have the real thing at your side

What - an inflatable doll?

[MovedGoalPosts]

thank you

[frogstamper]

Well I imagine that's going to encourage lots of people to get the 50mb connection when it comes out.
In another vain though I'm sure I read on another thread that VM were doing this because at present they are upgrading the network, which apparently will not be completed till late 2009, and they are trying to find ways of keeping the whole network up and running.

Originally Posted by foreverwar

What - an inflatable doll?

Puncture repair kit on standby

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Originally Posted by Rob

thank you

Jealousy?

[MovedGoalPosts]

Originally Posted by frogstamper

Well I imagine that's going to encourage lots of people to get the 50mb connection when it comes out.
In another vain though I'm sure I read on another thread that VM were doing this because at present they are upgrading the network, which apparently will not be completed till late 2009, and they are trying to find ways of keeping the whole network up and running.

Trouble is, whatever upgrades are currently in planning / progress will inevitably be in need of new updates by then. The pace at which internet use is growing and will continue to grow will continue to outstrip the capacity of network providers to develop. Whilst some form of temporary management may be justified it appears Virgin Media are bent on such policies for the long term. That doesn't reflect the changing demands of the internet user when more and more media is being streamed.

So when CAN I download?

Why do they keep moving the goal posts?When will we have a definitive rule that we can ALL get behind?

I don't want to download 12pm to 6am because that's when I use my PC to render pictures.

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by JohnHorb

It's under virgin.net, rather than virginmedia.com

www.virgin.net takes you to virginmedia.com

[frogstamper]

Originally Posted by Rob

Trouble is, whatever upgrades are currently in planning / progress will inevitably be in need of new updates by then. The pace at which internet use is growing and will continue to grow will continue to outstrip the capacity of network providers to develop. Whilst some form of temporary management may be justified it appears Virgin Media are bent on such policies for the long term. That doesn't reflect the changing demands of the internet user when more and more media is being streamed.

This is the problem isn't it, if we knew for example the network would be fully updated from say the end of the year, and then they were prepared to drop these stm limits, I feel people might be more inclined to accept it. But if they keep advertising as they do, taking more and more people onto the network and these stm times get longer and longer, who's going to want to pay out £40pm+ for 20mb or 50mb connection. Personally I think VM will have no choice but to eventually drop the "unlimited" tag and give each customer a base usage each month, then charge by the GB.

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by frogstamper

But if they keep advertising as they do, taking more and more people onto the network and these stm times get longer and longer, who's going to want to pay out £40pm+ for 20mb or 50mb connection. Personally I think VM will have no choice but to eventually drop the "unlimited" tag and give each customer a base usage each month, then charge by the GB.

As it is at the moment with them advertising for more and more users to join the network and selling it as the fastest and unlimited, but applying all these restrictions because they know they can't provide the speeds they sell. it mounts to nothing less than fraud as they know they can't supply.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Gary L

As it is at the moment with them advertising for more and more users to join the network and selling it as the fastest and unlimited, but applying all these restrictions because they know they can't provide the speeds they sell. it mounts to nothing less than fraud as they know they can't supply.

With this and their intention to Spy on their user's what will be their next move i wonder. Talk about a company on the road to self destruction

[frogstamper]

Originally Posted by Sirius

With this and their intention to Spy on their user's what will be their next move i wonder. Talk about a company on the road to self destruction

It certainly seems that VM could do with a decent PR team, "Max where are you"

[icestar2]

Used to get poor speed's. Got new modem installed yesterday to be able to get full 20mb and its even worse now. I used to get poor speeds all day long nothing over 3-4mb till 12am then I got 10mb. Now I get poor speeds all day 1-3mb with full 20mb only comming on line after 3AM ! Its clear to me my speed is being limited for no reason. I cant understand why they are doing this as I used to have a great connection a couple months back. My guess is either they have to many people in my area so there limiting or these's some people in the area using not so legal methods of getting internet. Either way I am not getting even close to what am paying for.

[CrowmanUK]

I think i've sussed out how not to get traffic managed on ADSL, we just need to convince the web browsing/emailing contingent how good it would be to have 4OD and the BBC iplayer on so they can watch programs all day long, that way their use would go way up and we'd have less chance of being traffic managed, if everybody downloads a lot then we're all equal!