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Originally Posted by graf_von_anonym

Your poll is based on a pair of suppositions, which may or may not be true, but, from the evidence that we have, the latter is far more likely to be the case.

There's no doubt that Virgin Media have STM in place, and the information about that is clearly available.

There is, however, doubt that Virgin Media have a parallel system of bandwidth management operating in sufficient secrecy that both staff and customers are unaware of it, save for the alleged effects it has having on connections.

There is a trial of a new STM regime, but that's been clearly discussed. Historically, ISPs have been capable of keeping this sort of thing secret from their customers and their staff, the key example being BT's trial of Phorm, but given the furore over that I find it hard to imagine that Virgin would do the same here. The real problem is the inconstancy with which this alleged secondary monitoring scheme is being applied, if indeed the Packet/Application/Routing-Analysis Network Operation Inhibiting Apparatus is real. Currently the only common factor that I can see is that people who are experiencing slow downloads are blaming something that Virgin Media is doing. That does not Scientific Rigour make.

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