[kwikbreaks]

There's no STM on 50Mbps and over. The shaping can be circumvented. Judging by what I saw happen to my own area it only takes a single heavy user to make a significant impact if the base load is already borderline or close to that. I could see very sudden changes in the TBB monitor that I can't see was co-ordinated action by multiple users and those changes coincided with periods of beyond dire performance. A single 100Mbps customer uploading flat out will consume over 50% of the local pipe until they hit the 6GB STM.

If the threatening letters are being scrapped then I suspect that what replaces them to keep the network humming without it impacting VMs bottom line will probably be less acceptable to heavy downloaders than the letters were.