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# ^ 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)
(, 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.
(, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:49, archived)
# I used my own router
did use their modem though, might have been in that.
(, 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.
(, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:56, archived)
# The makers of Vuze beg to differ
(, 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



(, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 15:23, archived)
#
Thats virgin's cable network, virgins adsl side is throttled (well I am 99% sure it is)
(, 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.
(, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 15:26, archived)