SirHumphreyAppleby:

 

Lower the priority of the offending app! Not everybody cares about the rugby.

 

Yes - this mad obsession with grown men chasing balls round muddy fields is now apparently sufficient to justify interfering with the lives of people who do not care about it just so others can watch it live of they are too tight to buy Sky or whatever you need...

Jos1969:

 

As I feared, it's not looking good. We were informed by email that the changes would be coming in for us on the 26th of August. Here's a snapshot of speeds from before and after the 26th.

 

You can see that even when was I using a VPN (which I have been doing for a year), speeds were typically between 5 and 12 mbps. This morning I am getting between 1-3 mbps download speeds even without a VPN, although upload speed is quite fast. I hope they don't consider my total bandwidth to be upload+download speed. It's the download that really counts. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I will keep an eye on speeds over the next few days

 

Christ, if that keeps up i'd have an issue with it, currently working through changing my parents to this service as ADSL is the only available service and they're avg 4/6MBps......not much quicker to change and less hassle

redherring: Maybe this new limiting feature isn’t working properly?

@redherring Nope can't see it happening but overloading yes

Where I am rurally, all we can get is 3G anyway. SO that's what this is. 

I just checked the speed again now (5:20pm) and it was 2.09 Mbps though Vodafone NZ Auckland server.

I don't suppose there's anything I can do but phone and complain. They are supposed to be capping everyone at 30 Mbps (see OP) but we never got that speed anyway, so really, it shouldn't slow down at all. 

Geektastic:

 

SirHumphreyAppleby:

 

Lower the priority of the offending app! Not everybody cares about the rugby.

 

 

 

 

Yes - this mad obsession with grown men chasing balls round muddy fields is now apparently sufficient to justify interfering with the lives of people who do not care about it just so others can watch it live of they are too tight to buy Sky or whatever you need...

 

Plus, the World Cup hasn't even started yet. So why is it slowing down now??

Jos1969:

Where I am rurally, all we can get is 3G anyway. SO that's what this is. 

I just checked the speed again now (5:20pm) and it was 2.09 Mbps though Vodafone NZ Auckland server.

I don't suppose there's anything I can do but phone and complain. They are supposed to be capping everyone at 30 Mbps (see OP) but we never got that speed anyway, so really, it shouldn't slow down at all. 

It's getting bad now. Speed in the evening and night is not much better than 0.50 Mbps.

@JasonParis are you aware of any issues?

Jos1969:

It's getting bad now. Speed in the evening and night is not much better than 0.50 Mbps.

@JasonParis are you aware of any issues?