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Originally Posted by weesteev
Over Subscribed suggests that the connected node has been oversold, the issue is over utilisation, this can vary depending on node size. You can have a legacy build 500 home node with 200 active customers and high utilisation due to heavy downloading (student area for example). Would you call that over subscription as the node design and capacity planning have allowed for 500 customers and the issue is high use.
I don't agree with the term over subscription, is very often over used on this forum with no real understanding behind its meaning.
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I would call it oversubscription, the reason been that VM should know full well in advance a student area may have higher usage per customer and as such do something to sell a fit service. eg. dont sell a unlimited use product or contend at a lower level. It doesnt matter if its due to high customer count or customers raping the bandwidth, the bandwidth itself is oversubscribed.
Also the capacity planning leaves alot to be desired, uplifted areas have a very high upload limit on STM, extremely generous, and the policy to only double capacity in some areas for a triple increase in upload speed is actually increasing contention ratio.
you talk as if you surprised people use a unlimited use connection heavily? and VM also make themselves attractive to students, they actually actively market to students with 9 month deals.