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, between 4pm and 9pm. However, the latest policy which will be on trial period and will apply only to the selected locations like Preston, Wigan, Blackpool, Camden, Dalston, Enfield and Haringey, will have additional time for traffic management in two segments when the uploading and downloading of its customers will be monitored.

It has also been made clear that the usage during the different time periods will be treated separately and the customers have strictly adhere to the upload limit and download limit specified for the specific time period. The new traffic policy has also pointed out how much speed will slip when the customers are found to breach the download limit during these hours.

Out of three time segments, the time period between 3pm and 8pm will have the monitoring of the uploads on the lines.

Broadband M
10am - 3pm: Download 900 MB.
4pm - 9pm:  Download 450 MB
3pm - 8pm:  Upload 200 MB
Resultant speeds due to Traffc Shaping: Download 1 Mbps and Upload speeds 128 Kbps. 

Broadband L
10am - 3pm: Download 2400 MB.
4pm - 9pm:  Download 1600 MB
3pm - 8pm:  Upload 700 MB
Resultant speeds due to Traffc Shaping: Download 1 Mbps and Upload speeds 128 Kbps. 

Broadband XL
10am - 3pm: Download 6000 MB.
4pm - 9pm:  Download 3000 MB
3pm - 8pm:  Upload 1400 MB
Resultant speeds due to Traffc Shaping: Download 5 Mbps and Upload speeds 192 Kbps.