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Virgin Media Throttling?

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  • 27-01-2021 7:24pm
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    podgeandrodge
    Registered Users Posts: 5,772 ✭✭✭


    I am on 240 Megabit connection with Virgin Media. My understanding is that this can give me a max "real" download speed of 30 megabytes a second.

    When I use a file download service, to download some large files e.g. 1gb, the max download speed I ever get is about 6 megabytes a second.

    However, EVERY time I turn on my NordVPN, using Ireland as a location, the downloads go to over 30 megabytes a second, which I would expect.

    So my question is, is Virgin Media throttling downloads from my particular file service that I subscribe to? As the VPN solves the problem, it would seem to be an issue with the site I am using rather than the size of the files.

    Thanks.


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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,126 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    They don't throttle, but it does sound more like a point on the route to the destination has become saturated or congested, most likely a peering arrangement. VM do have a history of that.


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    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,167 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Theres definitely been an issue last 10 days or so. Latency to CF/Google/AWS has been normal but my monitors from the UK have been showing horrendous loss and jitter.


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    allanroche
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭allanroche


    ED E wrote: »
    Theres definitely been an issue last 10 days or so. Latency to CF/Google/AWS has been normal but my monitors from the UK have been showing horrendous loss and jitter.


    I'm having the same sort of issues, though what I find funny is speedtest and fast.com show my downlaod speed to be fairly normal but my upload speed seems to be capped at 20-30 Mb/s too which is causing issues.


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