I see - so if i restart the torrents after midnight they will be ok? does that work if your downloading a torrent just before 5pm and the download continues into and after 5pm it wont be throttled because the tag is not applied until the connection is established after 5pm

either way - its ok between midnight and 5pm yes? so if I download a torrent at 4pm i will get full speed

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

where are you getting your figures from?

is it 5-12 now? It was last time I looked 10am-3pm and then 4-9pm

5pm-midnight for P2P management
what your on about is the periods you can download certain amounts before restriction in speeds kick in... thats on TOP of P2P management - you have to factor both in, Iam simply on about speeds on use of bit-torrent outisde of the P2P management times (5-12)

Are you still getting peak time slowdown? Mine went away. I've got their fibre product on the way on the 25th

I had virgin around the Sheffield (around 2 years ago) area and also near Richmond close to London.
I left virgin near Richmond around 3 months ago.

Here are my experiences. It was the same in both locations.

Look at the traffic management here. http://www.virginmedia.com/images/STM_30Mb_above_800...

Say I am on the XL 30 mbps product. Say it is 6pm. Between 4pm and 9pm I have 3500 mb before my speed is reduced by 50% for 5 hours.

Anyway 6pm. I fire up a torrent. The torrent goes at 3 mb/s. Great!! No throttling!!

I keep downloading the torrent so I go over my 3500 mb allowance. Now my speed is throttled to 15 mbps.

At this stage my p2p is also throttled. Usually anywhere between 100 kb/s and the 50% reduced speed...

I only found throttling on p2p to occur once I had been restricted via the traffic management. E.g. if I downloaded less than the 3500 mb I wouldn't experience ANY throttling.

This was the same in both locations. It was like this 2 years ago in Sheffield and the same here a few months back..

Just a quick heads up. The super hub GUI constantly crashes. It's a nightmare. & if you are in an area with issues don't expect them to get solved anytime soon.

When it works - it's great. Hope I've helped!

Also remember you can always upgrade your package at a later date if needed

TO ADD: outside of the traffic management times, there were NO restrictions ever. I lived in student areas on both occasions where presumably p2p usage would be quite high also.

TO clarify. p2p was only slowed down ONCE I exceeded the allowances on that table.

Edited by ukhardy07 (Sun 15-Apr-12 00:17:02)

mine and its gone midnight now.

C:\>ping -n 10 bbc.co.uk

Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.241.131] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=242
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=242
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=242
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=242
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=242
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=242
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=242
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=242
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=242
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=242

Ping statistics for 212.58.241.131:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 13ms, Maximum = 34ms, Average = 21ms

aye thanks ukhardy07 - I see so it may only apply outside your usage limits... ive spoke too loads of people and they all say depends where you are, ive spoken to one guy who says P2P is throttled 24-7 - I wont ever download more than 2Gb during peak times (1-2Gb maybe 2 times per week during peak times - if I do have a massive download i dont mind at aall running it over night)

SKY - what happened was the peak time traffic became erratic, some nights it was good (not completely gone but almost) and other nights it was bad... but now they switched my phone from WLR3 to SVBN and when they did there was a crossed wire - they went to fix that and now I have no phone and 3Mb broadband (from 18Mb) for 5 days now...engineer requires access, line attenuation has shot up from 25db to 35db too... not happy - sky has just been a total nightmare for me (and many others) ..

I don't think you'll be impressed by the super hub. Especially when you're having to turn it off at the wall to get it working. Otherwise I think you'll be happy.

The issues with sky are an absolute joke. I had just about had enough and then everything went normal again. I'm going to try and ride out this year on their fibre and if there's any more issues I'm gone

If virgin had been working perfectly for me I wouldn't have left. No way. Their on demand TV stuff is great too.

Something I liked about virgin. If uploading something on ADSL the broadband slows down to a crawl. On virgin, if uploading something the internet was still totally usable. I miss that!

Best of luck!