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[_] Does Virgin use bandwidth shaping?

Jonathan Matthew Burke imprecision at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 15:47:59 BST 2007

On 14 Sep 2007, at 15:18, Andy Gale wrote:

>> My ADSL provider does not cap or traffic shape, I get 24mbps down and
>> 1.3mbps up. I never notice contention issues during anytime of the  
>> day.
>
> Sounds good... how many $$$$ per month is it then?

£24/month for the full 24mbps service or £14/month if you're happy  
throttled down to 8mbps (still uncapped, no traffic-shaping, etc).

http://www.bethere.co.uk

I've been nothing but impressed by them. They're apparently expanding  
their coverage quite a lot (enabling more exchanges) - I hear O2 have  
bought them, time will tell whether thats a positive or not!...

-j