Permanent Limitation?

[weesteev]

Originally Posted by Stabhappy

If you honestly think VM are artificially limiting your torrent throughput, grab Ubuntu using torrent and watch it hit 2.4MB/s.

Hehe thats a thread killer if ive ever seen one!

Torrents vary... massively! could have 100 peer's and still have a sucky donwload speed, it depends on what all those peers are doing. Crikey it could be 100 peers on Virgin who ar eall STM'd and their upload speed has just vanished!

Virgin dont traffic shape their torrent traffic, its only STM thats in place. Ubuntu with torrents is a good idea though, if your really into torrents then its worthwehile trying new things to see the difference. You would be surprised how much windows nukes your Torrent download speed!

[marx-]

i don't tihnk you are being limited i think virgin are just **** atm,


i have dropped from 2Mb/Sec DL through torrents, to 25Kb from a private torrent tracker people on BT have DL'd the same file for me at considerably greater speeds.


i would suggest you wait and see if the problem persists contact VM, repeatedly until they admit the fault in your area is bigger than they initially thought,

according to VM CF11 is having connection issues, which is fine apart from i'm havign them in CF24 a fair few miles away.

it's been bad since tuesday morning after an outage for several hours on monday.

[Pantsu-san]

Which is, incidentally, when Cardiff rolled it's 20Mb users on to their new DOCSIS3.0 network. It's the same for me in CF10. From what I've read, it should mean better service for us, but for the past couple of day's it's been the complete opposite.

As for the torrents, I don't use them, so can't chime in with my opinion. Which could be seen as a good thing

[marx-]

well at least you knwo something, i got so fed up of the automated service and being on hold i am just riding it out. Virgin adopted my favourite method for fixing things ignore people for long enough and they like the problem go away

[Lolyn]

@marx, also in the CF24 area, and also on Virgin with abhorrently bad internet at the moment. I'm "supposed" to be on 20mb, but here was a speedtest result from this morning. Looks more like dialup to me.



...and here's another one from just now.



At best, during daytime I've hit 1Mbps down and 0.7 (which is full for 20mb up), but still horrible pings that either stay high, or fluctuate wildly. At night, I believe the highest I've experienced in the last 3 days was 4Mbps down, at approximately 3am. The average though has been about 0.7 down 0.6 up, and as someone who likes to play a fair few online games, this has been more than a little troublesome.

I also made the foolish mistake of phoning up tech support, only to hear an almost entirely unintelligable person on the other end telling me that despite the ticketed problem becoming resolved, it in fact WASN'T resolved and he had no idea how long it would take for it to be resolved. He might've mentioned something more helpful, but I honestly couldn't understand since the line was so garbled. Guess at some point it'll be fixed, God only knows when.