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)
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Fri 20 Aug 2010, 14:57,
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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)
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Fri 20 Aug 2010, 15:01,
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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)
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....
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Fri 20 Aug 2010, 15:19,
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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....