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Old 20-01-2012, 07:44   #3
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Re: Newsgroups unusable even at 1am!

VM dont throttle at that hour, probably congestion somewhere.

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Originally Posted by keepitretro View Post
I know they were messing with port 443 on astraweb a few months ago, but it seems to have stopped now.

What's next?

I don't however beleive we are moving towards usage caps and comcast style shaping as (ingnition suggests), because if they did this alot of the big users 100mb and 50mb customers would go elsewhere, Then whats the point in faster speeds if you can't use them....

Does not make business sense.
Ignition didnt say usage caps.

Comcast style shaping in all likelyhood will make newsgroups faster as it wont be protocol based.

However I am wondering if VM are going to bail out of the comcast style shaping, news has gone quiet on it and in my view it works for comcast because they allocate more capacity per customer and also have usage caps, VM's implementation would clearly be more draconian in the bad areas which may cause excessive complaints.
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