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Originally Posted by hokkers999
I know it's no consolation for us, but probably a sign of how things are going, but BT caps ALL users in the evening to just 15% of their nominal bandwidth 
Makes VM capping at 25% almost seem generous doesn't it 
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weeh glad a news site noticed this, thinkbroadband funnily have remained very quiet about it. Which does indicate further they pro BT.
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Originally Posted by TraxData2
BT's FTTH has no STM/Shaping what so ever and the trialists often enjoy 100Mbit (its set up as speed bursts so you only get that speed with big file downloads, quite a good setup).
AFAIK BT is expecting not to use any sort of shaping/throttling on their fibre rollout as the networks backhaul will be massively upgraded allowing for much less congestion and no need for shaping (much in the same way fios works).
VM, however, cannot afford to upgrade their backhaul/network linkups (as they have only just upgraded to 40G while BT is 100G)
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It doesnt matter how big the backhaul is if their prices dont change, BT wholesale currently make isps pay over £150 per mbit which is incredibly expensive.