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Originally Posted by Nemeth
To be fair I'm reading the info in that Allot link, not simply what Trax said.
Ie. prioritising delay-sensitive traffic, which in the case of a consumer ISP is likely to be gaming-related traffic.
And anyway what's the point of throttling traffic that uses a relatively small amount of bandwidth? We're talking bandwidth usage for most games, WoW included, in the single-figures of Kbps.
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sure, but your reading and falling for the PR sales pitch, and not considering the real implications, thats were the likes of phorm came from as the DPI vendors want to increase their income so expand and mission creep their firmwares to add new value to their customer base the ISPs not you as the ultimate paying end user.
as regards whats the point of ...., the same has/is said of the internal Virgin media traffic that doesnt even go outside the VM network.
the VM users internal VM websites ,VM ftp, VM mail etc, ALL THAT GETS INCLUDED in the current STM totals, they do include that traffic too, and that quite clearly is wrong from any POV never mind "in good faith" (legal terms) and unneeded, but they do it anyway....
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Originally Posted by HSp8
why pick on newsgroups?
I thought it was the P2P users that caused congestion on the network with uploading
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No, thats just a misconception today,its coming from the interested commercial partys the high profile PR campaigns(piracy is bad except when its commercial piracy for prifit from the likes of BT/VM/CPW etc type thinking) etc, and lazy news writers propagate to make headlines they can sell.
P2p hasnt been the top bandwidth use case for a good few years now, Usenet(newsgroups) have always been the far higher data throughput of the internet, and only in the last few years has Video streaming become the new higher data throughput, hence all the recent stories about how they (BBC/youtube etc)dont pay to use our pipes and we want our cut stories.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter
Well the big problem is that VM can arbitrarily decide what constitutes "heavy" use as they see fit and may arbitrarily apply Class of Service on whatever type of traffic they see fit (potentially to the detriment of their paying customers), just as they have varied the limits of STM and reserve the right to continue to do so.
Unfortunately the more switched on customers who decide that enough is enough and leave will no doubt be replaced by the unsuspecting people who make a grab for the dangling carrot of 50Mbit, which sounds great on paper.
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sure, and they will continue to do so UNTIL YOU (anyone effected) takes Virgin Media to county court and gets a ruleing to stop them and remove these one sided contractual clauses.
just as the bank charges ripoffs got massive airtime and massive news coverage, so will these personal small claims if you care enough to put together a howto step by step to bringing the UK Broadband STM/FUP bad faith to the masses and small claims (VM/BT contract breachs to the UK consumers detriment)