ISP slowing speeds

[Luser]

I pay for an  internet speed of 30mbps, when ever i exceed 50GB of usage, my speed is reduced to 512kbps, is there any way to prevent this by using a vpn or something?

[rEaGeNeReary]

no. isp limit all packet not just by category like from youtube, etc.

[Kirky2k15]

That sucks dude, doesn't your ISP office an unlimited service?

[soup]

2 minutes ago, Kirky2k15 said:

That sucks dude, doesn't your ISP office an unlimited service?

My connection is unlimited but they(the ISP:Virginmedia) impliment what they call "traffic management" after a certain amount of download. You can still download (hence the unlimited) but the speed is much reduced.

  They don't care what the data is or how it connects before them (i.e. VPN or WHY) all they see is the AMOUNT of data you recieve.

[Kirky2k15]

2 minutes ago, soup said:

My connection is unlimited but they(the ISP:Virginmedia) impliment what they call "traffic management" after a certain amount of download. You can still download (hence the unlimited) but the speed is much reduced.

  They don't care what the data is or how it connects before them (i.e. VPN or WHY) all they see is the AMOUNT of data you recieve.

I'm on Virgin media and never had this problem I get 200mb/s download speeds

[soup]

5 minutes ago, Kirky2k15 said:

I'm on Virgin media and never had this problem I get 200mb/s download speeds

 

Seems the traffic management policy is no more.  On reflection I should have put a lot of "used to"s in my post.

I was basically trying to explain what MIGHT BE happening to the OP's connection.

 

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2014/02/virgin-media-uk-scraps-traffic-management-broadband-downloads.html

 

[ImBleu]

13 minutes ago, soup said:

My connection is unlimited but they(the ISP:Virginmedia) impliment what they call "traffic management" after a certain amount of download. You can still download (hence the unlimited) but the speed is much reduced.

  They don't care what the data is or how it connects before them (i.e. VPN or WHY) all they see is the AMOUNT of data you recieve.

 

This sounds more like a 4G / LTE ISP than a Broadband/FTTH ISP. 

 

We pay about $30 (and due to horrible location barely get 10mb/s), but when we do - it's unlimited download. I queried them and they said they slow the speed down to only 25mb/s, to which i responded that was perfectly fine with me since I cant even get that on a good day.

[soup]

1 hour ago, ThatCoolBlueKidd said:

 

This sounds more like a 4G / LTE ISP than a Broadband/FTTH ISP. 

 

 

Was a broadband provider but they have stopped that now as although it was (in their eyes) unlimited as you could still download, the ASA decided that changing the speed was limiting it.  All moot now as they have stopped that particular set of shenanigans (no doubt there are others).

[KuJoe]

1 hour ago, Luser said:

I pay for an  internet speed of 30mbps, when ever i exceed 50GB of usage, my speed is reduced to 512kbps, is there any way to prevent this by using a vpn or something?

A lot of data centers used to do this also, especially over in Europe. It makes sense, but I don't see it as often.