Looking at their traffic management page here:
http://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy-thresholds.html
the throttling isn't actually too bad, though recently I've never hit mine (I'm on the 60meg package) - admittedly the only time I do big downloads is when I buy new games - which isn't that often:
Looks like the throttling is only 10-16% which isn't as much as it used to be.
http://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy-thresholds.html
the throttling isn't actually too bad, though recently I've never hit mine (I'm on the 60meg package) - admittedly the only time I do big downloads is when I buy new games - which isn't that often:
Looks like the throttling is only 10-16% which isn't as much as it used to be.