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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
could be to mitigate upstream congestion?
when I got put on a 384kbit config last xmas my upstream was very severely congested at the time.
unlike the downstream I dont think VM actively market the upstream speeds so they in affect free to set them lower.
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Chrys
I know what you mean - but VM do actively market their online storage and backup products with the 50 meg BB package. That, of course, requires upstream. And, as you know, downstream can't function without upstream.
So VM mess around with upstream at their peril, IMO. They can in any case rate limit the upstream by policy. It's a lot of trouble to go to to deliberately set a throttled rate unless it was applied only to this user for exceeding one of the policies.
That said, you're right. They are free to mess with the upstream.