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[challenge entry] up to 20 meg my arse

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(I helped save b3ta! Clueless Egg Cunt ...of course i'm beach ready!, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:32, archived)
# Still works plenty fast for me.
(cenaris Is dividing 3 by waffle, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:34, archived)
# Yeah and me, but the throttling is a joke sometimes.
(I helped save b3ta! Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:37, archived)
# ^ this
me torrents can go from 1MB/s right down to 2KB/s without warning. Tis a bitch sometimes.

When I move house I'm gonna have to switch suppliers anyway, any recommendations (I've been looking at talk talk)
(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:47, archived)
# I hear the new Virgin routers have software in to block p2p/torrent traffic anyway.
Wouldn't have a clue tbh sorry.
(I helped save b3ta! Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:49, archived)
# I used my own router
did use their modem though, might have been in that.
(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:56, archived)
# That has nothing to do with virgin
and everything to do with how peer to peer works and is dependent upon the connections you can make at any one given time. There are too many variables to choose one thing to blame.
Virgin do not, and as of yet can not distinguish p2p traffic from any other traffic and they certainly do not throttle p2p.
They throttle all of your traffic when your usage goes above the limits set in your contract.
Your p2p issue has nothing to do with Virgin.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:56, archived)
# The makers of Vuze beg to differ
wiki.vuze.com/w/Bad_ISPs#United_Kingdom
(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 15:01, archived)
# and they are wrong.
There are plenty of tests to show if your particular traffic is limited. The law does not currently allow for traffic shaping of particular traffic data.
If Virgin were then the people I work with in this area (privacy and data interception) would be making a stink about it.
To be honest if you are using Vuse then that's the problem. many trackers have vuse on their banlist and will refuse connections.
You are complaining about p2p though. You have to look at the nature of your traffic and ask yourself if you are being reasonable.
You should be using Utorrent and you should be encrypting your outgoing data so that your seeding can't be interfered with.
But what you should be doing if you want to maintain illegal downloading, is renting a seedbox and downloading all your traffic from that via FTP.

as for what vuse say? I prefer to rely on real time data from the Max Planck institute than a commercial p2p client maker.

broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php



(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 15:23, archived)
#
Thats virgin's cable network, virgins adsl side is throttled (well I am 99% sure it is)
(I helped save b3ta! Saner, Sat 21 Aug 2010, 16:15, archived)
# I'm currently with xilo and can't praise them enough.
I went from Sky to Virgin thinking that they larger companies would be better, but these guys piss all over them.
More expensive than others, but I've not noticed any throttling at all, even at peak times. They do a rolling contract, so you can even just try them for a month and see how you get on.
(I helped save b3ta! BleachedEgo draw a cdc then get back to your teen porn.Pricks, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 15:26, archived)
# The 'throttling' is a bit excessive
but it's not traffic selective. that would involve interception that is currently illegal.
The fact is that cable internet still achieves the closest average speeds to the actual advertised (over 8mb consistently on a 10mb pipe) and nobody else comes close.
Oh and I'm with NTL ( yes, Virgin are still NTL, they just bought the rights to use the name and rebrand) and don't get any throttling night or day. That's what the 50mb is all about :)
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:54, archived)
# No it's not traffic selective.
But if you use quite a bit of bandwidth for anything, they auto throttle you. Which can be annoying.( Basically the unlimited is capped but they have gotten around this)
(I helped save b3ta! Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:57, archived)
# It's simply about using too much during peak hours.
If you are downloading 4gb movies in the day they will hit you with a 5 hour penalty. If you are wise and save that traffic for after 9pm you won't notice a thing.
I've downloaded..let me look... 27GB since midnight. Not a throttle in sight. The 50mb is not capped in any way. ( and neither will it be when it moves to 100mb or the 200mb currently being tested)
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 15:01, archived)
# As Panasonic points out...
The Virgin throttles are well documented. They basically ask you to "play fair" during the rush hour and stick your big downloads on overnight.

There are published rules as follows:

allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html

Setup uTorrent on a schedule to kick in after 9pm and you are laughing.

At least this is all clear and in print, unlike other ISPs who hide their throttling policies.

/relurks after boring IT post....
(I helped save b3ta! Batter Pudding Hurler is a figment of your imagination, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 15:19, archived)
# zsdjaghdkfjsvdrbhvasdyuvskfva
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:34, archived)
# Ouch!
(I helped save b3ta! Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:35, archived)
# it's still the fastest about
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:39, archived)
# you are R.B. aicmfp
*chains to radiator*
(I helped save b3ta! Victor Meldrew, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:40, archived)
# arf!...true though
20mb is roughly 14mb average...bt and sky don't get near that ;)

top10.com/broadband/speedtest/#15212084
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:42, archived)
# the mrs gets whatever our best BT package would be free from work as she works from home
Out of choice we would go for something much faster, but free is free :)
(I helped save b3ta! Victor Meldrew, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:44, archived)
# free is good :D
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:48, archived)
# and slow!
Good enough for PSN so i'm not too bothered
(I helped save b3ta! Victor Meldrew, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:49, archived)
# I think where I am best is about 2mb
(BT and their carrier pigeon tech)
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:46, archived)
# bt need to get the finger out
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:49, archived)
#
finger fist
(I helped save b3ta! Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:50, archived)
# They've got almost no incentive, have they?
They're still getting the customers.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 15:02, archived)
# Um..I've got 20meg from it
*newsgroup flooding for teh win*
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:57, archived)
# Needs more weeing on Rob
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:51, archived)
# WHAT A TWAT
(I helped save b3ta! Elvis impersonator, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 15:17, archived)