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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
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As for the motorway effect... I don't buy it. O2/Be are cheaper, and with almost everyone synching at >10 meg around here, they're probably having to provide more bandwidth per person than VM are. Yet they've managed to keep on top of capacity and contention perfectly well since the exchange first went live three or four years ago - and that's without any traffic management or download caps.
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It's really simples.
If the students are suffering at, say 1 mbps on their 50 Mbps contracts, as soon as you increase the capacity, they'll use it all the way up to 50. This is a universal rule for anything involving traffic (let alone students).
You mention syncing at > 10 Mbps on O2/Be (through a BT line all the way to the ISP Gateway). Syncing is one thing, download is another. Your 50 Mbps VM circuit will sync at the nominal speed. But downloads are subject to contention at nodes and hubs at least.