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I need to help a foreign that is moving to Newcastle and I quote:

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how good is VirginMedia ? Am moving to Newcastle and am new to the british ISPs. I read on their website that they have some traffic management policies (From 4PM to 9PM you can only download 5GB of whatever really, if you pass it, the speed is cut in half). Was looking for the 60Mb pack, it's 27,50 pounds


I cant help as im on talktalk, anyone any idea? :cry:

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I think that they do not have caps if you pay for the top package but it is a lot more. It might only apply if you are in a cable area. I moved away from Vermin Media because of the throttling. They actually throttle from 9 am to 9 pm. Yet the busiest time was 4pm to 11pm.

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Virgin you get throttled peak with heavy use , but they cover most of the area with cable

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Virgin you get throttled peak with heavy use , but they cover most of the area with cable

Yes but the real problem is that the peak time depends on the area. Where I live it was 9 am to 9pm.

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"Experiance"? Is that a foreign Scottish word? ;)

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I used to be with Virgin Media and I never had any issues with throttling or service provision at all.
Was with them about 3 years.

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finlay666 wrote:
Virgin you get throttled peak with heavy use , but they cover most of the area with cable

Yes but the real problem is that the peak time depends on the area. Where I live it was 9 am to 9pm.


From memory it's 5-9/10 pm weeknights and I forget the weekend ones

Bear in mind the 30mb service (the double hasn't happened yet) limits to 10mb, which is still 1Mb/s download

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Bear in mind the 30Mb service (the double hasn't happened yet) limits to 10Mb/s, which is still 1MB/s download

Fixed for accuracy

b=bit
B=Byte

There is also some confusion regarding the use capital M when referring to data. Depending on context, it may refer to 1,000,000 or 2^20 = 1,048,576. The latter is invariably the case when refering to memory or file size, while the former is implied for storage size and bandwidth.

The small letter m is usually milli as in millimetre, meaning a one thousandth part. Although at peak times 10mb/s may feel accurate, it's unlikely to be the case. That would equate to roughly 1KiB every 3 hours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_rate_units

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megabit per second (Mbit/s or Mb/s; not to be confused with mbit/s which means millibit per second, or with Mbitps which means megabit picosecond)

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