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Originally Posted by Milambar
Skype, one of the most used applications on the internet, I do believe, relys on a P2P protocol to make it work. The average user most certainly WILL notice it.
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Skype is NOT being targetted by VM's traffic shaping systems. It also uses minimal amounts of bandwidth, and quickly adapts to various traffic levels by itself.
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We moderate the total volume of file sharing traffic on our network between 5pm and midnight on weekdays and midday and midnight on weekends. This policy, which applies to all broadband packages, is restricted to Peer to Peer ("P2P") applications and Newsgroups (which are commonly used to distribute large amounts of data)
This policy does not impact any applications other than Peer to Peer and Newsgroups, so things like watching iPlayer, online gaming, making calls via Skype, downloading music tracks from iTunes or streaming them from Spotify and sending an email or normal browsing are unaffected
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I've already said VM are referring to P2P specifically with relation to file sharing, nothing else.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
every implementation of shaping I have witnessed is always noticeable as it often shapes things its not supposed to. However the average user would probably not even know about shaping so wouldnt blame it.  |
The average user still can't tell if they're getting 8 meg or 20 meg from their "Up to 20mb broadband".