Virgin Media, formerly NTL (my broadband provider), have decided to implement throttling of their broadband service between 4pm and 12am.
Speeds on the cable network will be limited between 4pm and midnight for traffic which Virgin considers “potentially abnormal”. Virgin says the top five per cent heaviest downloaders among its three million customers will be affected - about 150,000 broadband users across the country.
I don’t really do a great deal of downloading/uploading so shouldn’t really be affected. Although I welcome a more reliable network structure.
I’ve seen a lot of comment about this and it does seem like a very high amount of traffic to me.
The traffic they’re going to be throttling?