Thread: 20 meg is not official
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Old 16-04-2007, 13:22   #13
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Re: 20 meg is not official
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Originally Posted by zctyp18 View Post
As it is now estimated that over 1/3 of all internet traffic is bittorrent/P2P-related, VM (like some other providers) use 'bandwith-shaping' which stops this type of traffic from jamming up the network. So, although your P2P may run at 1MB on your 10MB VM service in the evening, that doesn't mean that your web-browsing, email, etc isn't going faster. What would you prefer, slower P2P or being forced to pay extra every month for going over an annoying download limit (which can be very bad for gamers and fans of internet TV/radio)?
Just to correct this. VM don't restrict bandwidth depending on what services you use. Once you hit a 'pre-defined' bandwidth limit (which varies), you may be restricted on bandwidth speed. It does not distinguish between P2P, browsing, email, FTP, etc...
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