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Originally Posted by Kushan
If you go by the information so far, STM limits will be doubled so you'll have to download 10Gb in the evening to get hit with it. However you're right in that you should only be reduced to 15Meg, which is still pretty decent.
I think I'd much rather Virgin had lower STM thresholds but only reduced the speed by like 25 or 30% or something, but that's just me. Then again, I'm on 50meg specifically to avoid STM.
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A new system is coming in place that will replace both STM and traffic shaping or so I hear.
Details so far indicate it will be extremely fair and protocol agnostic.
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Originally Posted by Kushan
You mean the "traffic" shaping that's supposed to slow P2P/newsgroups but ends up slowing lots of other stuff? Officially no and I know loads of people still have issues with it, but I personally have not run into it in months. Seems like they've given up with it in my area - a few minutes ago, I was downloading from a newsgroup at a solid 6Mb/s.  |
No, it's completely different.
Instead of shaping and fixed STM limits, the new system will gradually reduce your speed on a sliding scale depending on how much you've downloaded and local port loads. You'll essentially get "de-prioritized" down to the same level as other people who have the same level of utilization as you.