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Old 14-01-2012, 19:45   #902
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed

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Originally Posted by Kushan View Post
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.
nope I mean the yet released comcast style management where it will slow everything and they abandon the p2p traffic management.

As currently both sets of traffic management arent up to the job. eg. right now I am downloading at 3mbit/sec, way below STM throttle levels and I am not even STM'd.

Ignition has hinted (and I heard of another source also) that new traffic management is coming soon which is protocol agnostic and based on local utilisation levels as well as own usage levels, however news on this has suddenly dried up.

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq View Post
Course some of us are in a situation where VM have been failing to provide what we've already been paying for for the last 14 months. So when more money is spent on unneccessary upgrades for other people and frivolous marketing campains while they're failing to make the investment required to bring existing services up to scratch, we have a perfectly reasonable right to be unhappy.

Not to say I am, just playing devil's advocate here.


seems some of us are the forgotten ones and people assume everyone has an equal quality of service.

why would I be patting VM on the back for doubling advertised speeds when I dont even get current advertised speeds.
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