on 12-03-2019 18:21
Hi,
I have been Virgin Media (and NTL) customer for the past 12 years. Starting with 2Mb/s connection, I went through multiple upgrades, currently at 350Mb/s.
In the past weeks or maybe months, I have noticed that as soon as I turn torrenting on any computer or server in my house on, the WAN download connection drops to 10Mb/s flat on every device in the house (total). On top of that, I experience massive, 25% packet drops (tested by ping -t 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8). Turn torrent off, and bam, problem solved.
My SuperHub 3 is setup in modem mode. My edge firewall is virtualized pfSense 2.4.4 and VLAN routing is done on Cisco 3560CX. Pretty basic setup that works fine.
Has Virgin Media introduced some sort of policy recently that throttles customer's connection down to make it feel like 2007 again for torrenting, or is my SuperHub 3 modem acting up?
Paying over £50 for 10Mb connection does not seem like a good deal for me any more. There are unthrottled 70/20 options out there for half the price.
on 08-06-2020 16:55
I have tried 3 different VPN and the speed in UDP mode is 800kb to 1.4mb Max
Switching the VPN to TCP protocol increases the speed to up to 30mb download
That's what I use now always
on 08-06-2020 17:15
on 08-06-2020 17:37
on 08-06-2020 17:39
Apologies for my mass posting, virgin media forums still dont have a quote button and quick reply is not tagging the member or quote in properly, can't even edit or delete post on here either.
on 08-06-2020 17:40
I changed it because one of the VPN help team said in their opinion the Hub was at fault so I changed to TCP
on 08-06-2020 21:52
on 08-06-2020 21:59
Yes the openvpn 2.5 update allowed me to install the Wintun tunnel adapter to my Windows 10 PC. I use AirVPN and my download speed went from and average of 25-35Mbps to 130Mbps with the SH3 in modem mode running through a Linksys EA7500 router.
on 10-06-2020 12:22
saltyseadog:
Hi that is excellent news and good to see your speed increase but do you get the bad packets or authenticate/decrypt errors or 10Mb cap when torrenting ?
And has the new openvpn 2.5 solved this issue ?
on 10-06-2020 12:23
on 10-06-2020 17:45
Everything works as it should now. My Virgin broadband package is 215Mb which I get all the time when not using the VPN. When using AirVPN I get 125Mb which gives me over 12mbps on a download using qBittorrent this will download eg a 4GB file in approx 15 minutes.