Virgin Media customers in blighty may be dismayed to learn that the cable ISP is extending its throttled hours and lowering the threshold required to trigger throttling.

Users in the Preston area are being subjected to these new crop of rules which are itemized below:

• The 10AM – 3PM and 4PM – 9PM peak hours are being combined into a contiguous 10 AM – 9 PM block for Saturday and Sunday.
• Where users were once allotted Saturday/Sunday bandwidth of 1000MB for 10AM-3PM and 500MB for 4PM-9PM, users will now receive 1250MB for 10AM-9PM, resulting in a 250MB cut for the same time span.
• Weekday users who exceed their caps will be throttled for up to seven hours instead of the current five.
• Weekend users who exceed their caps will be throttled for up to ten hours instead, instead of seven.

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