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Originally Posted by pip08456
I cannot see the point of it as the upstream congestion is caused by a lot of un-shaped uses as well
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Not really in the case of upstream traffic. The overwhelming majority of this is P2P, there's not a lot else really that people can use to cane their upload capacity 24x7.
Makes it all the more ridiculous that VM didn't implement this first, however the shaping was implemented with cost control rather than congestion control in mind and this dramatically complicated upstream management.
I suspect upstream management being trialled is a blunt sledgehammer affecting customers regardless of utilisation but we'll see.