Traffic Shaping
 

Well, some have aluded to this, but now it looks official.

Taken from section 20 of the ntlworld user policy.

Re: Traffic Shaping
 

'We reserve the right' as opposed to we are in every area we can needlessly in the view of saving bandwidth/money.

Seems like a sensible thing to do to ease congestion with the higher tier services to beat off BT and the like until better technologies come.

Still I can max or near enough 24/7 :Pumpkin:

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Oh and p2p, like I said with Bittorrent, Rogers and the amount of the network it takes up!

Re: Traffic Shaping
 

Reserve the right is a polite way of saying that they are going to do it.

That's not the reason it's being implemented.

No you can't, you'll get your download speed abilities throttled from 6pm.

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Re: Traffic Shaping
 

How much you betting Neil? Because if its over nothing you are going to lose.

Re: Traffic Shaping
 

I have absolutely no idea what you mean. :erm:

Re: Traffic Shaping
 

Or already doing it but didn't want to own upto it.

Re: Traffic Shaping
 

This should be fun

Re: Traffic Shaping
 

what is the reason?

Re: Traffic Shaping
 

Take a wander down to ntlw head end , take a peek at the equipment there set-up to do this and then come back here , lol

This is happening..

Re: Traffic Shaping
 

So how many believed me when i said they might be something going on with my connection. 6 till 12 was when i had my problems. soon as 12.00 midnight was hit it stopped. ? Now i know they have said 11.00pm but they might have been testing so took it till 12.00

Re: Traffic Shaping
 

if that really is you Bill, it's great to see you back.

(although somewhat puzzling that you have a new ID and flashing eyes)


I didn't believe you re shaping as I'd assumed it was due to your local network being overloaded due to underinvestment!

Re: Traffic Shaping
 

Thanks for the welcome back. Yes it is me. :Yikes:

Funny thing is there has been no work on the ubr from what i can see but my connection is now fine. Put 2 and 2 together and what do you get ?

I am moving to Be Unlimited on the 1st of August anyway :)

Re: Traffic Shaping
 

Specifically what application is slow though? It's usually only certain applications like Bittorrent. Some of the newest clients encrypt packets so traffic shaping no longer works as the packets are not recognised as BitTorrent packets so they can't be shaped.

Re: Traffic Shaping
 

Newsgroups on port 119,7000,8000,9000 and Bittorrent. I use Unlimited newshosting.com who have a test page HERE

Anything else is fine and gaming is unaffected.

Re: Traffic Shaping
 

Makes sense. My ISP has done the same thing for a long time, but as adoption of BitTorrent clients that support encryption increases, that service at least will no longer be an issue. Newsgroups... different story as the packets are easily identifiable and the protocol probably isn't about to change.