Yes but the cost of mobile internet is much higher, so it's not really a valid comparison - if Virgin would release a de facto "get what you pay for" service, I'd consider it. I'm fed up of the "buy this, get something completely different" propaganda.
Just did some quick speedtests on my connection at home, peak hours more or less right now, down is between 89.51Mbit/s down 21.85Mbit/s up against random other country and within scandinavia im at 105.16Mbit/s down and 22.10 Mbit/s up and slightly higher if i do it within sweden. I´m paying for a 100down 10 up connection. Start protesting against the shitty service offerd by the isp, They wont learn unless people take drastic measures against them since they only care about money... Would be intressting to see a class action suit or something similar against their practices
Errr. No. Electricity and Gas is provided in a quantity that allows everyone to use it at any time. Infrastructure has been built this way to allow for most normal usage. If you plug in a particle accelerator at 8pm when every tom dick and harry is watching eastenders, it probably won't work. A slight exaggeration of your situation I admit, but this is the same concept. Electricity usage at night, is often cheaper. Electricity in bulk, is often cheaper. These things are different mechanisms of the same thing as traffic shaping. If you're a heavy user and you spend more than everyone else, it gets a little bit cheaper. You are still paying more. If you are using the product at a time when no-one else wants to use the product, it gets cheaper. This is the way the world works. If you want DEDICATED bandwidth, get a DEDICATED line. See what I did there?
The only Virgin media package I can recommend is their student one, it still gets the 5h cooldown throttle though. Still, 30mb down, 3mb up, unlimited usage(no fair use crap) for £21/month isn't terrible. My parents had Virgin media L at home and it's garbage. I switched them to plusnet as soon as the contract was done. This is what happens. Apparently you give the local neighborhood brownouts.
Err... so is broadband, figuratively speaking, hence my comparison - the crucial difference is that Virgin are not allowing their customers full use of their broadband service no matter how much they pay, whereas electricity and gas companies will give you as much as you want, so long as you pay for it. If Virgin adopted a similar trafficking policy which allowed the heavier users (1% tops) to pay more for constant bandwidth/unrestricted downloading, it would be much better and likely more profitable than the nonsense they currently have in place. I don't want nor need "dedicated" broadband... I just want broadband that allows me to quickly download a 10GB file without crippling my bandwidth halfway into the transfer - other ISPs have managed to accomodate it without a dedicated line. If Virgin's 20Mb broadband service is deliberately capped at 5Mb at certain times then categorically it's not 20Mb broadband. See what I did there?
They do, they show their policy clearly and they don't throttle their top two packages. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Err, yes they do throttle traffic on the top two packages (sorry for the lack of lazy link but its a PITA to do on phone); http://help.virginmedia.com/system/...YPE=1&LANGUAGE=en&COUNTY=us&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE= True story; their P2P traffic throttling has been known to negatively affect Xbox live, so I'm guessing the same could apply to other services and formats too. *edit* Yay for automatic formatting!
This just made me LOL - Virgin should start advertising their broadband packages as follows: YOUR FAIR SHARE OF 100Mb - USE IT FOR 30MINS, THEN ENJOY 20Mb SPEEDS FOR A FEW HOURS Doesn't have quite the same impact, does it?
