Virgin Media clarifies its stance on traffic management
Virgin Media, the UK cable ISP has replied to the post published in cableforum.co.uk which states that the cable broadband provider is all set to launch a new application to target P2P based traffic on its cable network. The post says that Virgin Media have been trialing application throttling/management in selected areas and have been [...]
Virgin Media is to launch trials with new traffic management policies
The cable broadband provider, Virgin Media is to bring further changes in its traffic management polices that will affect the customers of its three broadband products – broadband M, broadband L and broadband XL. The earlier traffic management policy announced by Virgin Media was taking into account just the downloads made during the peak hours, [...]
New traffic management policy in early 2008
Most broadband internet providers in the UK do traffic shaping to prevent the heavy users from taking undue advantage of unlimited packages. As all uncapped packages offer unlimited downloads, the fair usage policy often puts some kind of cap at least on the usage during peak hours. What happens when a few customers indulge in [...]
