Posts by williamorris

Ten external battery packs

Re: What, no AAs?

They do because there are often 7-8 batterys in a D battery.

I have a few that use AA batterys they are not so good. I even have wind up ones for those who prefer flower power!

I can send you one of each if you like..

newnow

I have a newnow 10000mah pack I got off Ebay from a UK seller for £25. It runs my HTC Sensation for 27 hours and if I charge from flat I get 6 charges from it. I am surpised it was not included here. It's got twin USB ports and a on off button.

It's the model be-04 2 outputs one 5v-2a and 5v-1a and it's fab!

I also have the solar backpack that was mentioned. I replaced the onboard one with this and I use it on my motorbike as I am travelling the world a bit. I have my Ipad and phone charged all the time. Even in the UK it would charge it quite happily.

It's well worth it - both are!

Virgin Media's latest throttling rules

So this has just been half term!? STM is starting to be applied this weekend and our area isn't on the list yet!

Oh my :/

wahey! done 3GB and back to 4.7kbps :/

I've done 3.1GB in this 4-9 period and been throttled. You can tell as web pages take a bit longer. Also i've gone from 108.6mbps solid to between 60-74mbps which is still more than enough.

My upload is still 10.7mbps

SO maybe yesterday I was not being STM'd maybe it was just usual slowdown - would make sense. To limit a product at 50mbps but give it 60-70 seems sloppy.

I can't see the FAQ as I am banned from the forum. (for airing my views as a paying customer) such a lovely company (NOT!)

I've sent a video of Skyplayer buffering every 10 seconds using VM to trading standards - I have a very fast speedtest however.

Switched to my backup ISP and skyplayer is running fine - it's only a 6MB connection!

anything is more exciting than that!

I hit my 20GB 1 minute after 3pm and it's still going - so I guess it is off between 3-4PM.

Well i've been playing out.

Lastnight I was lmited down after 10GB but was adveraging 50-60mbps so that didn't stop me carrying on downloading and streaming HD

Right now I am 4GB into my 20GB allowance and it's running at full speed. If it's like 50MB STM was there's no STM between 3-4PM so that's another potential 40GB to be got.

Someone said on the VM forum that most customer's don't know about the forum - so most customers won't know about the STM as that's where it was announced. I've seen nothing in the press giving this information - have you?

So for me whilst it's annoying that I am dropped down wher 50 to 100MB users just go back to what they were used to, it's also managable. I will ensure I squeeze every drop I can from it.

On a final note - someone on the VM forum said " we should have 1TB a month limit total - max!

DON'T be a tool!

If you do your full 30GB allowance in peak times thats 900GB a month - There is no limit on what you can do after the STM times and overnight. I regularly do 150-200GB overnight. no probs!

You see i'm not so sure. Earlier I think I hit the limit - my USENET went down to 60-70mbps and stayed there.

I did another 6 GB and then stopped - It's like it now so I assume I am STM'd till 11:30. However I've still been able to do all that I've wanted to - including watching 8GB of HD programs and a film whilst being STM'd

to be fair I think I have been a bit hard on VM. I recall Mark saying this was going to be introduced over a week or so - so maybe it's not kicked in yet.. We will see.

Re: Some of us have jobs...

I think that it should be 30GB a day before STM, I did 1GB of my 20GB 10-3 usage and now I haven't got enough to get it at full speed now - still I am still getting 43-44mbps on USENET so fuck it ill just keep on caning it..

Infact - scrap my last post! I hit the STM limit and my USENET download has totally stopped - 108.3mbps to now 4.9kbps in a matter of seconds LOL

fucking joke!