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Originally Posted by Marcus125
ALSO-
Do you really think its fair the consumer pays because you under price your products? (you being VM which you obviously arent but you get my drift)
Or are you saying Virginmedia is a budget brand at a budget price? I DOUBT THEY WOULD AGREE.
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The consumer doesn't pay. They have made it quite clear since they launched the 100Mb product that it came with shaping of certain traffic. No-one put a gun to your head and forced you to purchase it and if it's not suitable for your needs you should have chosen another product.
Oh wait, there's about 3,000 private customers in total in the UK on 100Mbps products apart from VM. In other words you can't get those levels of performance from anyone else, even with the peak shaping in mind.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
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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The current iteration is management version 1. It will progress no doubt but at the moment is based on a quite centralised system which is incapable of the granularity that the Comcast system has.
VM would need to do some quite heavy duty upgrades to facilitate a Comcast-like system. Their current systems just aren't capable of dynamic service flow changes or such timely traffic monitoring while the Comcast systems were thanks to their running IPDR to police their 250GB/month cap and their more advanced QoS management from their PacketCable system to supply VoIP over the cable network.