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[Proper Bo]

I think I might go back to my preferred method of interweb stealing, like.

Got anything good you can post to me, JP?

[callum]

Someone mentioned that last week, if you download more than 5GB or something during peak time, they cap you at 5mb for like 5 hours or something. I only had the chance to test it today and it's true. Either that or they're diverting the bandwidth from the scummy bit I live in to keep the posh bastards like JP happy.

They can't cap me at 5mb when i'm only on 4mb interweb, shirley

Sorry, I forgot you were a poor geordie.

Broadband Size: L
During peak times, the top 5% on the Size: L package download at least 750MB of traffic each.

Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till midnight) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed – their download speed will be set to 2Mb, with their upload speed set to 192Kb. This will last for 4 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.

Even if a Broadband: Size L user has their speed temporarily traffic managed, they can still download over 1,500 music files per day.

[Mr JP Fugley]

Link please Callum old bean. I would like to read this.

[Proper Bo]

They can't cap me at 5mb when i'm only on 4mb interweb, shirley

Sorry, I forgot you were a poor geordie.

Broadband Size: L
During peak times, the top 5% on the Size: L package download at least 750MB of traffic each.

Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till midnight) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed – their download speed will be set to 2Mb, with their upload speed set to 192Kb. This will last for 4 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.

Even if a Broadband: Size L user has their speed temporarily traffic managed, they can still download over 1,500 music files per day.

It's strange that they're capping it now tho' cause I haven't downloaded anything all day.

[Mr JP Fugley]

I think I might go back to my preferred method of interweb stealing, like.

Got anything good you can post to me, JP?

I don't think I've been downloading much that you young guns would be interested in recently.

[callum]

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...t/traffic.html

[Mr JP Fugley]

Cheers Callum.

My speed has just dropped to around 500K if it goes true to form it will stay there for the rest of the evening.

[callum]

Cheers Callum.

My speed has just dropped to around 500K if it goes true to form it will stay there for the rest of the evening.

By my calculations we can download more than the limit while capped, I hope we don't get capped at poor people speeds after that

[Mr JP Fugley]

Cheers Callum.

My speed has just dropped to around 500K if it goes true to form it will stay there for the rest of the evening.

By my calculations we can download more than the limit while capped, I hope we don't get capped at poor people speeds after that

That would just be wrong, the likes of us suffering because of the chavs.

Would it be wrong for me to log onto someone else's wireless network to obviate this problem. I can confirm that the chap is a prick, as well as not securing his network and naming the PCs in such a way as it's obvious who he is.

[Proper Bo]

By my calculations we can download more than the limit while capped, I hope we don't get capped at poor people speeds after that

That would just be wrong, the likes of us suffering because of the chavs.

Would it be wrong for me to log onto someone else's wireless network to obviate this problem. I can confirm that the chap is a prick, as well as not securing his network and naming the PCs in such a way as it's obvious who he is.

Does he not even have MAC address filtering on?