Upstream traffic management scrapped
As of today, it appears that VM have scrapped upstream traffic management on all packages.
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Apologies, the correct link is: http://www.virginmedia.com/traffic
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Now that's interesting...
How handy, I'm up for renewal on my contract soon, I guess I can safely move off the 'Gamer' plan, now! Tom |
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So there is no shaping on newsgroups either?
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According to that link, it would appear not.
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If they have done this on the uploads then i cant see any chance now of getting an upstream upgrade soon on any packages.
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From what I remember when they removed download STM, it was actually cost-saving - it was cheaper to just add capacity than run and maintain the infrastructure required to monitor and reduce people's speeds. It's probably a similar thing on the upload side of things. |
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I think a big part of the removal of traffic management will be the changes to broadband advertising rules.
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Other ISPs are apparently publicising their upload figures:
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...nd-speeds.html I guess if Virgin do nothing, they run the risk of others running adverts saying "2x faster than Virgin Media's average upload so you can post more pictures online" or whatever, also if VM want to advertise upload speeds in the near future, they need to remove the traffic management now so that they can get a few months of test data at the better speed. |
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http://www.virginmedia.com/shop/broa...band-only.html The 'other ISPs' in that article apparently being Plusnet/John Lewis. Can't seem to find any mention of the upload speed for the 10Mb offering though. Indeed looking at the Plusnet and John Lewis websites the upload speed isn't clearly mentioned for any product. This also seems to be the case for other ISPs too with Sky relegating upload speeds to the small print. Virgin 54Mb/3Mb 108Mb/6Mb 213Mb/12Mb 362Mb/21Mb Plusnet 10Mb/? 36Mb/ 9Mb 66Mb/ 18Mb Sky 10Mb/0.7Mb 36Mb/9Mb 58Mb/18Mb |
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With other ISp's offering around six times the upload speed on their lowest speed tiers, I think VM should seriously think about a major increase.
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well they are continuously moving in the direction with capacity upgrades, speed upgrades and stm removal so who knows, maybe upload speed increase will be next and everyone will be realigned to 10:1. It would make sense once everyone is on 4 upstreams running qam64.
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