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06-05-2007, 23:10
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Goes up to 11!
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 4,577
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Virgin *is* throttling
Well it was only a matter of time. Yet another hooray for the average clueless numbskull who thinks "bigger numbers = better".
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...t/traffic.html In terms of your average user, they could not tell the difference through browsing a 512k line and a 20mb line. Check the ratings 20mb line becomes 5mb after about 20mins use (full speed). For me on the 4mb line..... 750mb before I get 2mb???? Thats crap! The main thing thats annoying is newsgroups.... I now need to find a client that will download at specified times. I have checked newsleecher, newsbin, none of them do it. |
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06-05-2007, 23:13
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Baby Bore
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Svalbard
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The best solution for me that the moment is to line everything up in Grabit and then VNC into my main rig in the morning before I go to work and kick it all off, but if it over runs to 4PM then I could cripple my connection for the evening :/ MB |
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06-05-2007, 23:23
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Goes up to 11!
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That is a way around it. If I put VNC onto the server, then I can tinker with it from work. :/
I can see me often hitting that limit, I tend to listen to net radio in the evenings. |
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06-05-2007, 23:23
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Screaming Orgasm
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Newbury
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Given the fact they've been trialling this for several months, it doesn't surprise me. Truly unlimited bandwidth usage *is* unsustainable at the rates typically being charged to home users. If you want uncontended service, you're going to have to pay for it.
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06-05-2007, 23:25
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Moonshine
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Shock horror...
Virgin screwing the customer over. *ex-virgin employee here* Still, at least they're being honest about it unlike some ISP's Simon/~Flibster
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06-05-2007, 23:54
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A large glass of Merlot
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Letchworth with a Lightsaber
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Well either their figures are incredibly wrong or the Virgin infrastructure here is seriously dodgy..
Have been dropping as low as 20KB/s download at points :/ Either that or their idea of increasing XL to 20MB has, in this area, been at the expense of screwing everyone that isn't on XL :s
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07-05-2007, 00:04
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ex SAS
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: JO01ou
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Not surprised really, Eclipse have told me that they're limiting bandwidth betwixt 18:00 and midnight and I've noticed it.
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07-05-2007, 11:34
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Chef extraordinaire
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Infinite Loop
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Think I'm going to have to start cron jobbing any torrents that are running
 make sure it gets killed off at 15:45 and starts again after midnight.
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07-05-2007, 12:22
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Goes up to 11!
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Torrents are easy to schedule times for, Azureus does this with a simple plug in. For speed newsgroups >>>>> torrents.
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07-05-2007, 12:56
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Bananaman
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh
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Doesn't newleecher have a schedule client? Sure it does, i haven't used it in almost a year now because i cant access nntp direct from uni so it got deleted. But check the program again, newsleecher is one of the most feature rich newsreaders out there. Especially the last beta i checked out (which will certainly be mainstream now!).
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