Speedtest app shows the connection consistently maxing out at 1130-1160Mbps
But p2p won't download at anything over 55-60MBps, p2p used to max out the connection no matter what time of day it was. I'd thought that virgin had stopped any throttling but maybe thats changed?
I'm not even sure if it's anything to do with the Hub5, its possible the slower speeds had been happening before installing the Hub5 but I hadn't noticed.
Speedtest app shows the connection consistently maxing out at 1130-1160Mbps
But p2p won't download at anything over 55-60MBps, p2p used to max out the connection no matter what time of day it was. I'd thought that virgin had stopped any throttling but maybe thats changed?
I'm not even sure if it's anything to do with the Hub5, its possible the slower speeds had been happening before installing the Hub5 but I hadn't noticed.
Has anyone experienced the same? Any tips?
Cheers
55-60 Mega Bytes per seconds or Mega bits per second? Different software can show the speeds in different ways, technically, you should always measure speeds in terms of bits per second (lower case b). If your P2P software, instead displays megaBytes per seconds, then as a very rough estimate, multiply that by 10.
Over and above that, P2P traffic tends to throttle itself quite happily, if you are not careful, it’s saturate the upstream and, as a consequence, impact the downstream performance.
Yes, I fully understand the difference between bits and bytes.
Its not going over 60MB/s when up until today it would max out at around 110MB/s, now that it has the 2.5gb ethernet port it should be able to max out around 145MB/s (1160Mbps divided by 8 gives the download speed in MB/s)
Just had my Hub 5 installed today as well with gig1 and yes I can confirm that P2P transfers have been slowed down to 10%-15% of the bandwidth anybody saying otherwise they either don't know nothing about internet connectivity or they are too young
Basically I still have my DSL connectivity from EE and they have 67mb contract I download anything with a peak of 6,7MB/s as P2P so torrents from work or download from other uploaded websites that are P2P after some digging I found that virgin media have been hiding and they DO limit the band to don't exceed the equipment to heavy loads hence the limit to download anything from internet so if I have 1gig I should at least able to download with minimum guaranteed speed of 500mb/s or something like that, meaning 50mb/s downloading a file that has for example 4gb in just seconds,
I have this picture from a website where virgin media forbids to enter hence I used a VPN, I haven't found a solution to remove the limit because the guy that made this message took this article from a page that was once posted on virgin media website and now is 404.
If I attempt to download a huge file over torrent or any filesharing website is limited to max 10mb/s with virgin media 1gig, but if I open steam to download a game that has 40-50GB the speed of download go up to 80mb/s as steam is the one of the few P2P allowed websites with no limit so that games is downloaded in a couple of minutes,
I repeat the download speed for a file, a game or whatever is slitted by 8 (usually) in UK, in Greece is the same , in Romania even less (slitted by 7 or 8), so 67mb contract you have 6.0mb/s download speed, with virgin should be the same but they limit that to offer everybody a bit of speed,
Not even the VM branch manager could explain me the real download speed...( real download speed link explanation on the bottom)
That being said for what did they do 1gig internet with this limit?
I can only see one answer, for a huge family with four 8K tv's streaming 4k or 8k content and about 10 kids that stay on the tablet and watch youtube so that they would not detect the content as P2P,
Maybe the limit of this can even get you out of the contract if you put this in court as VM deleted any implications that they limit their band for P2P or I could not find anything official as when I am writing this,
If you the reader do not agree with anything I just said please just investigate and then reply,
@carl_pearce, thank you for your screenshot I will call VM and I mean ASAP,
this above is maximum speed that I can download it won't go better no matter the device or pc/laptop,
But if I open battle.net app and download warzone 2 for example I am getting same speeds as you do but only by doing that,
I will get in touch with the retention department if they do not remove this limit I will cease my contract with VM I am still in those 14 days of contract and I will stay with the poor EE.
By the way do you use a VPN ? and if yes could you say the name is possible?(maybe the right VPN works)
I think they do throttle p2p significantly by it's nature, which I'm currently fuming at them. Because I provided proof I create mods for games & I share those via p2p network posting the torrents on my website for gamers to download & share. These are legal mods for games where mods are permitted. But I found my upload struggling to cope, so I went with Virgin for a higher upload speed & after switching, I found my upload & download speeds slower, significantly slower.
P2P is also used for game updates so it allows for faster downloads spread out across users rather than from a single source. Again, Virgin make this a problem & significantly slower. I also use a smart phone for business purposes & conference calling which also uses p2p that is performing shockingly poor with Virgin & unless they resolve this, I'm going to cancel.
They're tons of legitimate uses for p2p like I've mentioned & I don't think Virgin have the right to dictate how anyone can use their broadband. I just think it's Virgin doing everything they can to reduce how much people can use their bandwidth so not to stress the network, like their shockingly poor routers that seem to slow down for no reason when you need the bandwidth.
They might not directly throttle P2P but they throttle it in some way.
I get about 120Mbps but if I download via P2P through a VPN I get OK speeds for a while but quick quickly my entire connection is downgraded - not just the VPN but the whole link is slow and speed tests show it knocked right back. If I stop the P2P and give a it few mins, the full speeds come back. They are up to some kind of throttling.
Clearly with the VPN in place they cannot possibly know it's P2P traffic but they're doing something for sustained download traffic via my VPN all the same.
hey mate I am old school I come from a country where the cost of living was too high to buy games,music or movies so I get into torrents but ultra private ones with high security and with self vpn such as filelist.io and I can tell you with qbitorrent I can download with up to 110mb/s having 1gig connection, but when I download from mega.nz or google drive the speeds go up to 30mb/s it depends a lot by how much the host is letting you download per connection no matter of how much speed you have, regardless of virgin dropping the speeds they do say in the contract that in some times of the day the download would go to 500mb/s or real download around 44-48mb/s and upload to a minimum of 25mb/s to have the best connection you should also have a proper filter between you virgin modem and wall socket so if you have any other issues I would call virgin media until they grow tired of me and just fix the damn thing. Goodluck and I hope i answered some of your doubts.