Throttling ?

Does anyone know if Virgin is Throttling or otherwise restricting useage ?. I do NOT download large files I simply browse the internet But I do have a lot of Tabs open on Firefox and Chrome. Now in past week I find accessing thos Tabs labourious and very slow. Something is not right.

Edited by More4Less (Mon 05-Jun-23 17:49:14)

Web browsers can slow down with heavy tab usage, Virgin Media no longer throttle traffic as far as I am aware.

Thanks for the reply. Don't laugh, but would 100 tabs X 5 windows (i.e. 500 tabs approx) count as "heavy" ?. What I thought was that maybe because I Ctrl, Alt Delete closed the Browser windows, then re-opened them in morning by Restore Sesssion, it might appear as a DDOS attack/overload VM serveres ?.

Edited by More4Less (Mon 05-Jun-23 19:51:16)

In reply to a post by More4Less:

Thanks for the reply. Don't laugh, but would 100 tabs X 5 windows (i.e. 500 tabs approx) count as "heavy" ?. What I thought was that maybe because I Ctrl, Alt Delete closed the Browser windows, then re-opened them in morning by Restore Sesssion, it might appear as a DDOS attack/overload VM serveres ?.

Nope, just a DDoS on your own computer as it runs out of memory.

Thanks. Yes I did consider that may be the case, and I guess even the 64gb Ram couldnt handle that.

Edited by More4Less (Mon 05-Jun-23 20:25:11)

In reply to a post by More4Less:

Thanks for the reply. Don't laugh, but would 100 tabs X 5 windows (i.e. 500 tabs approx) count as "heavy" ?. What I thought was that maybe because I Ctrl, Alt Delete closed the Browser windows, then re-opened them in morning by Restore Sesssion, it might appear as a DDOS attack/overload VM serveres ?.

Why on earth would anyone in thier right mind keep 500 tabs open and expect everything to be the same in the morning....................................are you a very young NSA employee that thinks it works like the movies ?

It was fine for months. Maybe I simply tipped over the limit. Anyway it still opened fine each morning for at least 6 months, no problem at all. It still opnes fine but just is slower loading.

In 30 years of using web browsers, i've never come across one that doesn't leak memory. Keep your tabs to under 50 and you'll be just fine.

OK thanks. You wouldn't think I have used internet for erm 30 years would you ,lol .!. Anyway yes I got carried away not wanting to lose info.

https://superuser.com/questions/1720203/google-chrom... might be a useful read.

Thanks that looks useful,

I am so sorry but this gave me a chuckle.

Asks if VM throttle connections cus his 500+ tabs are slow. hehehe

That would be slow due to the amount of tabs open

In reply to a post by Seansmit17:

I am so sorry but this gave me a chuckle.

Not everyone is aware of computer science, and major ISPs market they “don’t slow you down”, causing those unaware to assume everyone else does. (And back in the day VM was one of the worst for this).