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Originally Posted by Broadbandings
You can't see any changes at the modem. It's policed at the CMTS through rate limiting, nothing is changed at the modem at all just the QoS profile at the CMTS. Modems will only take new config files when they are registering, hence the stuff about rebooting to get an uplift / new service tier.
Nothing is sent to the modem it's all network side.
There is nothing 'slowed down' - the traffic follows a simple leaky bucket, traffic in excess of the profiled rate will be dropped in the same manner as normal. It's nothing more or less than a switch from 20/0.768 say to 5/0.192 so no more interception than the standard rate limiting which is at layers 1 to 3, nothing transport to application layer.
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Can you expand upon this please, more for others with little technical knowledge than me. It's a useful point that ordinary and high traffic users alike should come to terms with.