What's probably happening is Virgin's deep-packet inspection stuff is spotting that your connection is doing P2P type stuff and throttling your connection all the way back as a result. It's not a fault, it's deliberate bandwidth throttling, partly in response to music / movie industry pressure, and partly simply to protect the Virgin network from traffic saturation.
I'd suggest, if people are determined to use P2P or Bit Torrent, you want two separate connections, the Virgin cable one for legitimate stuff, WOW, normal Internet browsing, legal downloads from Amazon, etc, and a separate phone-based ADSL connection, preferably from a small local ISP (who are less likely to be doing aggressive automated deep-packet traffic profiling), for all the dodgy stuff. And make sure people use the correct connection for the traffic they want to run.
If I was doing it I'd have two seperate wired networks, and tell people to plug in to whichever one they need - use green cables for the legit one and red for the other, so it's easy to keep track of. But then I simply don't trust wireless connections.
Actually, thinking about it, use wired for the legit and wireless for the other. Gives a better get-out clause if anyone ever comes knocking, "someone external must have broken our WEP key".
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Date: 2010-05-26 11:42 am (UTC)What's probably happening is Virgin's deep-packet inspection stuff is spotting that your connection is doing P2P type stuff and throttling your connection all the way back as a result. It's not a fault, it's deliberate bandwidth throttling, partly in response to music / movie industry pressure, and partly simply to protect the Virgin network from traffic saturation.
I'd suggest, if people are determined to use P2P or Bit Torrent, you want two separate connections, the Virgin cable one for legitimate stuff, WOW, normal Internet browsing, legal downloads from Amazon, etc, and a separate phone-based ADSL connection, preferably from a small local ISP (who are less likely to be doing aggressive automated deep-packet traffic profiling), for all the dodgy stuff. And make sure people use the correct connection for the traffic they want to run.
If I was doing it I'd have two seperate wired networks, and tell people to plug in to whichever one they need - use green cables for the legit one and red for the other, so it's easy to keep track of. But then I simply don't trust wireless connections.
Actually, thinking about it, use wired for the legit and wireless for the other. Gives a better get-out clause if anyone ever comes knocking, "someone external must have broken our WEP key".