MacrosTheBlack
Prominent Member
Anyone noticed the new tier from Virgin media broadband? Vivid 200 Gamer
http://www.virginmedia.com/shop/broadband/compare.html
Up to 200Mbps download + Up to 20Mbps upload + No traffic management
Boss-level broadband for gamers
What's "grinding my gears" is this No Traffic Management statement!! It doesn't seem right to say to their customers oh you need to pay extra not to have your legal legitmate bandwidth crippled on our standard super fast broadband service.
I moaned at Virgin for years about their throttling of the PSN network on the PS3 with no joy. They continually denied it again and again until finally a 2nd line support guy admitted it, after I proved to him the issue existed by using a proxy on my NAS to change the ports and massively increase my PSN downloads whenever I swapped the PS3 onto the proxy. This makes a massive difference for game downloads and patches which are often several GB's in size (though the PS4 PSN downloads thankfully don't seem to be as crippled by Virgin).
So what do people think? Place your votes please.
http://www.virginmedia.com/shop/broadband/compare.html
Up to 200Mbps download + Up to 20Mbps upload + No traffic management
Boss-level broadband for gamers
- Made for gamers – play online, stream gameplay and chat, all at once
- Faster upload speeds – loads of extra bandwidth for gaming traffic
- No traffic management – keep playing for as long as you want
- Totally unlimited broadband – as much data as you need
- The UK’s only widely available ultrafast WiFi
What's "grinding my gears" is this No Traffic Management statement!! It doesn't seem right to say to their customers oh you need to pay extra not to have your legal legitmate bandwidth crippled on our standard super fast broadband service.
I moaned at Virgin for years about their throttling of the PSN network on the PS3 with no joy. They continually denied it again and again until finally a 2nd line support guy admitted it, after I proved to him the issue existed by using a proxy on my NAS to change the ports and massively increase my PSN downloads whenever I swapped the PS3 onto the proxy. This makes a massive difference for game downloads and patches which are often several GB's in size (though the PS4 PSN downloads thankfully don't seem to be as crippled by Virgin).
So what do people think? Place your votes please.