As part of new Virgin big cheese Neil Berkett’s plan for the company to ‘Do Less Properly’ and focus on their ace card – cable broadband – the ISP is to ease up on its much maligned traffic shaping policy in early 2008.
Previously, if you were among the top five percent of users who were downloading the most in your local area during the peak time of 4pm to midnight, then your connection would be choked to half of your current speed for a total period of eight hours.
Now the sin bin has been reduced to a three percent margin, the peak time window has been shrunk to a 4pm-9pm slot, and the chokehold now only lasts for five hours instead of the previous eight.
Size: M users will see their 2Mbps speed whittled down to 1Mbps if they download more than 300MB in the peak time period. Size: L surfers will see their 4Mbps speed quartered to 1Mbps if they stray over the 800MB threshold and the speed of XL users will be squished from anything up to 20Mbps to 5Mbps if they exceed the 3GB limit during peak time.
Similarly, limits are in place for users uploading excessive amounts of data. M users will be cut down to 128Kbps if more than 150MB is uploaded. The upload limits for Size: L and Size: XL users are 325MB and 1250MB with speeds dropping to 128Kbps and 192Kbps respectively.
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richlieu said on 11 Dec 2007 at 3:55 pm #
I’d rather they got rid of throttling althogether before they think about launching 50Mbps.
3GB really isn’t much by today;s standards.
You could exhaust that easily on a 20Mbps connection just through browsing, pop ups etc
steve amis said on 17 Dec 2007 at 3:19 pm #
Finally, Virgin easing up a little. No traffic restrictions would be nice, but this is better than nothing.
If it means I can start downloading at 9:01 PM and not get choked, then good
Jenny Frost said on 19 Dec 2007 at 10:38 am #
It’s still an FUP in all but name!!! I wish these people would stop listing services as ‘unlimited’ when there ARE actually limits! It’s called a ‘dictionary’ guys, I suggest you get acquainted with one ASAP!!!!!
Happy Christmas to everyone else!x
Benmohr said on 14 Jan 2008 at 1:07 pm #
This is a joke! Why are they selling Fast Broadband links and then reducing them when you download more than 3GB. The whole point of having a fast link is so that you can download lots of data!!
Think this is now just part of the Virgin Rip-You-Off culture. No wonder Branson is always smiling…..