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Throttling traffic on Virgin Media

I've been with Virgin media for 2 years now and they've been great apart from one aspect, throttling traffic. I used to get 1.2mb through on Bittorrent and now I get 150kb at any time, sometimes it's reduced down after a certain amount of traffic. I don't want to get into the illegalities of Bittorrent, as far as I'm concerned it's a postal service for data, but I'm sick of this sudden slowing up. Can anyone recommend a good isp which doesn't restrict traffic in the UK?
 
Hi Nibinaear,

Do you mean 150Kbits or KBytes as there is quite a big difference between the two (times 8). If it's 150Kbits then, unless you're still on the old Virgin Media 2Mbps cable 'S' service, I would say there is something wrong with your connection. The 10Mbps M package should cut your speed to about 2Mbps.

If it is only traffic management then you could always upgrade to the next package up as the tolerances and performance reductions do vary:

http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy.html

As for truly unlimited services, well there are a few that come close, although as always such things may not last forever. For example, Sky Broadband Unlimited and BE Broadband (BE Unlimited) have fairly unrestricted packages.

Just remember, as you would be swapping from cable, you might need to pay a hefty new line activation fee to get a BT line installed and working. This could make a move away from Virgin quite costly and may out way the benefits of simply upgrading to a faster package with virgin.

PS - Don't forget to review virgin media.

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/review/products/10.html
 
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