I think it's all been said above however here goes:
From what I remember from Virgin they will throttle at peak times if your connection is getting hammered. I think it's like 2Gb in an hour or a little less before your connection gets throttled. I've not looked at the AUP thing but it was something that happened to me on Virgin when I was still in the UK, I cursed them for it too.
If you are getting drops with a fair few users I would also say take a look at the Router connected to the Virgin modem. Personally, if you have a lot of traffic going through a cheap-ish Netgear expect the drops, I think I have the same one running the wireless here and that's about all it's good for imo.
I'd recommend something that's actually built to handle high traffic. For example I have a cable connection over here in Ireland, I'm using a Draytek Vigor2100V (it's a wired voip router), I had that on Virgin over in the UK too and all I can say is the connection was rock solid and is over here in Ireland on UPC cable. So I'd be looking to spend out and get a decent router, such as a Draytek SoHo router, too.
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From what I remember from Virgin they will throttle at peak times if your connection is getting hammered. I think it's like 2Gb in an hour or a little less before your connection gets throttled. I've not looked at the AUP thing but it was something that happened to me on Virgin when I was still in the UK, I cursed them for it too.
If you are getting drops with a fair few users I would also say take a look at the Router connected to the Virgin modem. Personally, if you have a lot of traffic going through a cheap-ish Netgear expect the drops, I think I have the same one running the wireless here and that's about all it's good for imo.
I'd recommend something that's actually built to handle high traffic. For example I have a cable connection over here in Ireland, I'm using a Draytek Vigor2100V (it's a wired voip router), I had that on Virgin over in the UK too and all I can say is the connection was rock solid and is over here in Ireland on UPC cable. So I'd be looking to spend out and get a decent router, such as a Draytek SoHo router, too.