VM to remove traffic shaping in September

[telfordcable]

I had phone up virgin media tech support about my broadband was capped at 5Mb instead of 20Mb last night and they explain to me that VM does have traffic management because it still upgrading 20Mb speed area by area roll out, once it all completed by end of September, then the traffic management will be withdrawn and everything will be back to normal. It only do it because of trialing upgrade 20Mb and soon to be 50Mb next year.

[LaineY]

rofl... god knows where you got that info from.. as for the traffic management.. apparently its going to get worse "word from the inside"

although i like what they advised you better than what i "know" lol

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

I had phone up virgin media tech support about my broadband was capped at 5Mb instead of 20Mb last night and they explain to me that VM does have traffic management because it still upgrading 20Mb speed area by area roll out, once it all completed by end of September, then the traffic management will be withdrawn and everything will be back to normal. It only do it because of trialing upgrade 20Mb and soon to be 50Mb next year.

I'd take that with a large pinch of salt..

[LaineY]

Originally Posted by Stuart C

I'd take that with a large pinch of salt..

better make that a cup of salt lmao :P

HAHAHAHAHA Doubt VM will do something that good

[evilmonkey]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

I had phone up virgin media tech support about my broadband was capped at 5Mb instead of 20Mb last night and they explain to me that VM does have traffic management because it still upgrading 20Mb speed area by area roll out, once it all completed by end of September, then the traffic management will be withdrawn and everything will be back to normal. It only do it because of trialing upgrade 20Mb and soon to be 50Mb next year.

trust me they will not be removing STM in the near future. If they did the network would fail in a matter of days with 20Mbit users downloading terabytes per month they would kill the bandwidth quickly. Remember each segment is only about 40Mbit/s as a link so when you get a handfull of 20Mbit users downloading continuously the load is far too high for that segment to handle. That was why they brought in the dual downstream frequencies (331 and 339Mhz) to try and increase the level of multiplexing but even that only goes so far!

[Rone]

50 meg, good grief, get the 20 something like and i might try and work up some enthusiasm. [yawn].

[Daveoc64]

More like a giant sized bucket of salt.

They wouldn't go to all the effort of trialling the STM if they didn't plan to use it long term.

/sniffs air

/smells bovine excrement

/gags

I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, I choose to believe your call was answered by a busy little CSR who goes to creative writing classes in his spare time.

Originally Posted by Chris T

/sniffs air

/smells bovine excrement

/gags

I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, I choose to believe your call was answered by a busy little CSR who goes to creative writing classes in his spare time.

LMAO

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Stuart C

I'd take that with a large pinch of salt..

More like a truck load of salt

[amateurfool]

Originally Posted by Muggle

More like a truck load of salt

A salt mine perhaps

[7@m3 G33k]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

I had phone up virgin media tech support about my broadband was capped at 5Mb instead of 20Mb last night and they explain to me that VM does have traffic management because it still upgrading 20Mb speed area by area roll out, once it all completed by end of September, then the traffic management will be withdrawn and everything will be back to normal. It only do it because of trialing upgrade 20Mb and soon to be 50Mb next year.

*plugs in VM CSA to English Translation Box* <-- £7.99 from Bullshyte Detector Monthly

"blah-blah I'm bored talking to you now blah blah Get off the line I have some serious surfing to do blah blah My spotty teenage mate at the other desk says there's some new Jessica Alba beach romp flicks on YouTube blah blah And now I have a new splash-resistant keyboard and mouse nothing is stopping me blah blah Bye!"

Of course this is not a literal translation...

[dav]

Originally Posted by Chris T

I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, I choose to believe your call was answered by a busy little CSR who goes to creative writing classes in his spare time.

Are you suggesting that VM CSR's lie to customers?
I'm shocked at such an accusation

Actually, no, I'm not. I've been lied to before by CSRs.
They'll continue to say anything they can to keep us pesky customers from complaining too much.

[Fenlock]

Originally Posted by Rone

50 meg, good grief, get the 20 something like and i might try and work up some enthusiasm. [yawn].

im all for more speed upgrades. the way i see it, if 20 megs currently running at 4, then 50mb should put me back to 10... roll on the 100MBXXXXXXL package so i can finaly get my 20MB that im paying for now.