[Updated some wording to make things clearer in response to Broadbandings]
Hi All,
In an earlier post I talk about what I have to do scheduling wise to ensure that I have plenty of available bandwidth for normal/gaming use (see
here).
Now, I don't mind having traffic shaped and throttled but I do mind that I don't know when it will kick in and when it will finish.
If Virgin made available to me a status page with my current upload and download rate limits (not realtime rates but the max I can expect) I could adjust my torrent usage dynamically and ensure that I always have bandwidth available.
They have this data on the back-end all ready as they track everyone's usage individually - it would just take a PHP script or two to expose the info (well it might be a bit more work that this ;-) ).
Perhaps there is a way all ready? And I just don't know about it. A brute force way for me to do this is to test my rates periodically but this isn't so elegant a solution.
The exposure of rates and throttling would go a long way to improve the transparency of traffic management IMHO.