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Originally Posted by TheDon
But it's perfectly possible to have a node under subscribed but over utilised, people will then wrongly come to the forum complaining how they're on an over subscribed node when infact they aren't.
This is a contended service, if the node is below the level of contention then it is not oversubscribed, however it can be over utilised if the people on that node are using bandwidth above and beyond what the contention levels permit.
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Would have replied back if it wasn't for the fact my net has been really bad lately, periodic hours of downtime from approx noon is not fun and not random :P
But..
I understand there can be underpopulated nodes and over utilised if a say 100mb in the area was sold very well.
But we aren't talking about that we are talking about nodes that are indeed been oversubscribed/overpopulated. I remember the threads on the official forums, unfortunately most of them bit the dust because of a couple of posters who were trying to get people to complain to watchdog etc :P. But there was a classic thread which someone took a picture of a cabinet in Newcastle which was either accidently left open or broken into which shown splitters being used on it to provide to even more houses, it was like a spaghetti junction.
In true VM moderation style the link and subsequent links by others were edited out. And there was a point when a VM staff member actually said there was oversubscription happening in key areas which was mostly students (where areas had student lodgings etc) during the later stages of 2010. Now I have no information if they since fixed this problem or not, but the posts from those areas originally affected by this issue still continues today. I suppose it proves that VM were more interested in gaining more monies with the least expenditure to make the end of year report for their "finally we are in profit again".
What was even funnier was the fact they have only allocated a measly £44m to the upgrades, this I got from a UK tech when I phoned one day, which is contradictory to the old saying "You have to speculate to accumulate" which unfortunately doesn't exist in VM world, more like "We will accumulate then perhaps in a few months get around to some speculation and fixing"