The company said excessive usage can affect the service received by other customers. Virgin Media has blamed some of its subscribers' "extremely heavy" broadband usage for connection issues in Feltham.
Some local customers of the cable broadband provider have seen their speeds running at slower-than-expected levels of late, reports the Hounslow Chronicle.
Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the principal investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), led an alphabet soup of government agencies in seizing the domain names of 82 Web sites (PDF) that ICE said were "engaged in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works" (See: Operation In Our Sites v. 2.0).
Unhappy with the current state of the DNS (Domain Name System) system, the team behind The Pirate Bay have thrown down the gauntlet and announced plans for the creation of an alternative DNS system that is based on P2P (peer-to-peer) technology. In a terse statement posted on Baywords, the group wrote "The background for this project is that we want the Internet to be uncensored! Having a centralized system that controls our information flow is not acceptable."
Figures released by the EU show that despite increasing broadband connection speeds Europe still lags far behind Asian countries such as Japan in terms of speed.
As an incident that we reported on last week shows, the Internet routing system isn't as secure as we want it to be. But how bad is it really?
Verizon Communications is now offering its Fios customers a new service that delivers 150Mbps download speeds and uploads of 35 Mbps.
The Pirate Party is asking cyber activists associated with Anonymous to halt a campaign of ongoing DDoS attacks against various organizations, businesses and government offices.
"We, the undersigned, call upon you to immediately cease DDoS attacks and to instead seek out a legal method to express your frustration and disquiet with the copyright industry, and their perversions of copyright law for personal gain," representatives of the US and UK-based Pirate Party wrote in a letter obtained by TorrentFreak.
DNS provider sitelutions was floored by a particularly severe denial of service on Tuesday.
The Virginia-based internet services firm confirmed its site was offline as the result of a "multi-gigabit" denial of service attack via an update to its Twitter feed.
China Telecom sent incorrect routing information last April that resulted in Internet traffic to major corporate websites and U.S. military and government sites being sent through China for 18 minutes, according to a report by a congressional advisory group.
The incident was one of several discussed by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Reuters obtained a copy of the draft report, which will formally be released on Wednesday.
Myanmar was severed from the internet on Tuesday following more than 10 days of distributed denial of service attacks that culminated in a massive data flood that overwhelmed the Southeast Asian country's infrastructure, a researcher said.
