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Old 18-04-2011, 21:02   #33
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Re: Should Virgin Media Throttle p2p traffic?

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet View Post
Because so much P2P hides. Leaving unidentified stuff alone makes it even more worthless than it is now as every arsewipe and their dog can tick a couple of boxes on the P2P client.

Blame P2P developers who insist on obfuscating their protocols to try and get around ISP shaping. You end up with what we have now, positively identified protocols being white listed rather than P2P being black listed.
why dont VM just use a proper system like that one we discussed that comcast use. I warned everyone here protocol shaping will be problematic and is a poor way of managing traffic.

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Originally Posted by Marcus125 View Post
Well thats progression...OFCOM told me to contact VM and that they are aware of the issuse or something along them lines but massively over complicated for a reply email.
I got told that at first, but after about 2 weeks of daily phone calls they had logged all my calls and decided to take me a bit more serious, now I am at the stage they are consulting with VM about accuracy of their website in regards to traffic management. Bear in mind ofcom have just passed some new code of practice on this, its worth mentioning that as ofcom will look poor if they just let this drop, when I said that to them it kickstarted them into doing something.

Bear in mind VM are not been told to stop the shaping but rather to make the shaping match what is put on the website, so in affect either change the website to say what they whitelist and that rest is shaped, or to make shaping blacklist instead of whitelist.
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