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Old 18-04-2011, 21:09   #34
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Re: Should Virgin Media Throttle p2p traffic?

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis View Post
Voted no for following reasons.

1 - protocol shaping sucks in general, false positives. plus inspecting traffic resource intensive which itself can cause performance issues.
2 - no differential on light or heavy user, this system treats a heavy http user better than a light p2p user.
3 - useless if an area is congested and no or little p2p usage to throttle.

That doesnt mean I think there should be no congestion management just that I think there is better ways of doing it than protocol shaping.
Voted no for the same reasons.

BTW Chrys, You should've received an email from Neil at samknows today. Did you get it?
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