Re: STM always enforced?
 

I've heard it's more realistic than real life!

Re: STM always enforced?
 

I love my beauty 120/12 but I hope one day VM will upgrade to 200/20 to boost VM a lift over BT challenge. (I hope it will be extra £5 a month for 200/20)

Re: STM always enforced?
 

Try it and see for yourself! (Real life, or 3D UHDTV, depending on which you've had the luxury of trying already)

Re: STM always enforced?
 

Still not being STM'd but i am getting pig sick of the emails telling me i'm using my connection too much. I hardly think 700GB a month ish is excessive especially considering most of that is from Netflix and other than perhaps a few nights a month the rest is auto-torrents done when we're asleep. Before we started using netflix we'd regularly use 2-3TB a month without getting any emails, now we get them every month even though we use much less than we used to.

I know the letters mean nothing but the tone strikes every time as though i'm doing something wrong by using my connection and pees me off.

Re: STM always enforced?
 

Tested this the other day, I got managed but not until i'd downloaded about 15Gb (1PM on a saturday) checked on the VM site and weekends are the same, 5GB before you're capped, So I have no idea what sort of STM is going on in my area...

Re: STM always enforced?
 

It would also appear that STM is not working as much as they would like. They now appear to be having a further go at the peer to peer users as per their rather ambigous announcement below which has recently appeared on their forum.



"We're always striving to give you the fastest possible broadband speeds at peak times. To do this our traffic management policy is there to ensure that the small number of very heavy downloaders and uploaders at peak times on our network don't affect the online experience for everyone else.



As part of our policy, we've always slowed down Peer to Peer applications at peak times (from 4pm -12 midnight on Monday to Friday and 11am - 12 midnight at weekends). However due to the nature of Peer to Peer applications some traffic has been unaffected for the past few months, which has impacted other types of traffic at peak times.



So to solve this we're updating our management solution so it's more effective. We'll be rolling these updates out across certain areas of our network, starting this evening (2nd Oct) with Northampton."



We'll post further news on this here on the forum as the updates progress.

Re: STM always enforced?
 

We are getting STMd its been 1 day that we haven't had it (last friday)

Don't get any e-mails. Just use it.

Re: STM always enforced?
 

Seems to be Freedom Friday - every friday STM does not seem to be on.. :)

Re: STM always enforced?
 

Moving DPI from edge routers inwards seems to imply some areas have now core routing capacity issues caused by on-net P2P and not just off-net?
Interesting, although not entirely unpredictable development! ;)

Re: STM always enforced?
 

I have noticed that there is a bit of congestion at the weekends in my area, coincidentally the STM now seems to be working at the weekends. Never seem to be STM'd during the week however ?

Re: STM always enforced?
 

That would seem quite contrary to previous claims that VM's core capacity is superb and "there is no congestion on the core network".

Re: STM always enforced?
 

Still randomly getting STM'd at random times, at random GB's, downloaded just over 20GB before getting STM'd earlier today

Re: STM always enforced?
 

the leics core network feed was congested according to the CEO office when I spoke to them in my final 12 months of service. Also I had a few occasions where I was seeing packetloss originate from inside the VM core network as well.

Re: STM always enforced?
 

I've seen STM active again in the evenings. As I've mostly been away from home I haven't really tested when it is working and when it isn't. I'm not sure if my area counts as congested or not. Certainly my TBB chart looks a lot better than it did but a lot worse than many I've seem...
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2013/10/37.png
This was my September SamKnows downstream report. Considering these are averages across the whole day I'd say it's hardly brilliant...
46.97Mbps Average
17.83Mbps Min 8pm, Sun 22nd Sep
63.74Mbps Max 6am, Sat 14th Sep
http://www.digitalham.co.uk/wp-content/september.png

Re: STM always enforced?
 

I also can go just under 20GB before it kicks in that's non stop over 15-20 mins