{"id":3066,"date":"2013-04-16T08:14:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T07:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2013-04-16T15:47:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:47:19","slug":"isp-virgin-media-uk-launch-new-broadband-traffic-management-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/04\/isp-virgin-media-uk-launch-new-broadband-traffic-management-policy.html","title":{"rendered":"ISP Virgin Media UK Launches New Broadband Traffic Management Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cable operator <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-65\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"virgin media\">Virgin Media<\/a> (Liberty Global) has today introduced a &#8220;<em>more flexible and responsive<\/em>&#8221; <strong>Traffic Management<\/strong> policy for customers on its 30Mbps and faster &#8220;<em>unlimited<\/em>&#8221; superfast broadband packages, which will cut the ISPs download speed throttling to just 30% for some and rising to at most 40% but for a shorter period.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Under the new, and somewhat <strong>more confusing<\/strong>, policy <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-65\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"virgin media\">Virgin Media<\/a> will manage traffic between the hours of <strong>4pm to 11pm each weekday<\/strong> and <strong>11am to 11pm at weekends<\/strong>, which the provider claims will only <strong>impact around 5% of their customers<\/strong> each day. During these times the ISP will slow your upload and download speeds if you go above a certain level of usage (threshold) within a given timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>The new system works on a <strong>1 hour threshold<\/strong> (30% download \/ 60% upload speed reduction) and <strong>2 hour threshold<\/strong> (40% download \/ 75% upload reduction), which means that some customers will be able to exit traffic management after at least 60 minutes if they get into it (the reduction use to last for 5 long hours).<\/p>\n<p>But to exit after 60 minutes you&#8217;d need to stop any big downloads, otherwise the stricter 2 hour threshold might trigger. The usage thresholds, which trigger a speed reduction once you go over them, are perhaps best explained with the use of an example &#8211; Traffic Management on Virgin&#8217;s 60Mbps (XL60) package.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" alt=\"virgin_media_traffic_management_april_2013_60mbps\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2013-article-illustrations\/virgin_media_traffic_management_april_2013_60mbps.png\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Some of the <strong>thresholds have also been lowered<\/strong>, especially on the side of upload speeds. For example, under the old system 60Mbps customers\u00a0downloading over 10,000MB (10GB) during the daytime period would have triggered the 40% throttle for 5 hours. But now a 30% throttle will trigger, albeit after only 3.6GB of usage, and rising to 40% after 4.5GB if you fail to exit the first 60 minute window in time. This system may benefit some but others are likely to view it as being more restrictive.<\/p>\n<p>As usual it can be complicated to explain the details of any policy and as a result Virgin Media has updated its <a href=\"http:\/\/my.virginmedia.com\/traffic-management\/traffic-management-policy-thresholds.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Traffic Management Threshold&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> page to give a better explanation for each package, which is useful because the usage thresholds (but not the reduction %) are different for each package and trying to explain all that here would quickly cause confusion.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to stress that Virgin&#8217;s new TM policy isn&#8217;t just about slowing all service speeds. 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