[Ignitionnet]

Morality is irrelevant. It's not poor capacity management that's the name of the game and why VM's services cost a quid per Mbps per month or less when they reach us.

It's not an endless upgrade path, of course, but it could be asked why the many should pay for node splits so that the few can P2P themselves senseless. I use P2P specifically as the current major congestion on the network is upstream.

New nodes are not the cheapest thing and the cost increment between the previous level of upgrade, splitting individual node trunks, and constructing completely new ones is quite high. Splitting a single node into 4 so that students can P2P themselves senseless isn't a way to do business. Those nodes should be upgraded absolutely last, when there is budget unallocated.

In the context of the cost and technology restraints that method of capacity management is absolutely appropriate. There are other issues on VM's network which are far more dubious than not splitting student areas down to near as damnit FTTP.