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The Virgin Media Con Artists
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The Singer
2009-01-25 16:18:34 UTC
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So you pay for a service, 2, 4, 10, 20 and now 50MB but if you actually
want to down load anything substantial at that speed you need to do it
over night!

They have limits on each package and they are very small limits and
should you exceed them your Package gets throttled.

'An example of how this works is that if a broadband size M customer
downloaded 500MB of data between 4pm and 9pm, their speed would be
temporarily managed with their download speed set to 1Mb and their
upload speed to 128Kb for a 5 hours.'

So who needs 10, 20, and 50mb for anything other than
uploading/Downloading large volumes of data?

A 50mb visiting websites is hardly going to be any different from a 2mb
package

In other words they want to sell packages they cannot at this time fully
support, presumably the packages will get bigger and cost more but if
you attempt to use them as they advertise for more than a few hours
during the day light hours then they'll punish you but keep charging you
full package fees, you'll be made to feel like your a criminal, that
you've done something wrong while simply tryng to get the deal they
promised you when you signed up.


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

It's a con and all there expensive adverts can't disguise this fact

Virgin are spinning bullshit regarding their services they simply cannot
deliver what they are promising, the network is just not up to it.
chunkymunkey
2009-01-26 10:17:21 UTC
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Post by The Singer
So you pay for a service, 2, 4, 10, 20 and now 50MB but if you
actually want to down load anything substantial at that speed you
need to do it over night!
They have limits on each package and they are very small limits and
should you exceed them your Package gets throttled.
'An example of how this works is that if a broadband size M customer
downloaded 500MB of data between 4pm and 9pm, their speed would be
temporarily managed with their download speed set to 1Mb and their
upload speed to 128Kb for a 5 hours.'
So who needs 10, 20, and 50mb for anything other than
uploading/Downloading large volumes of data?
A 50mb visiting websites is hardly going to be any different from a
2mb package
In other words they want to sell packages they cannot at this time
fully support, presumably the packages will get bigger and cost more
but if you attempt to use them as they advertise for more than a few
hours during the day light hours then they'll punish you but keep
charging you full package fees, you'll be made to feel like your a
criminal, that you've done something wrong while simply tryng to get
the deal they promised you when you signed up.
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html
It's a con and all there expensive adverts can't disguise this fact
Virgin are spinning bullshit regarding their services they simply
cannot deliver what they are promising, the network is just not up to
it.
You must be new..... Do you ever read the contract and conditions of use you
sign up for?


Have you ever thought of taking an uncontended line if you want 24/7 access
at full speed?. VM cable even with their STM is still better ASDL unless you
are next door to an exchange. Still if you regularly been STM'd you must be
a greedy bandwidth hogger. I am sure your downloading is all legit after all
the linux distros are a tad large. Probably best for all others on your UBR
if you went elsewhere then?

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