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Originally Posted by Sirius
No,
but we have moved to 6 downstreams and 1 upstream. Over utilisation coincided with the local colleges and university starting back.
It down to bittorrent users if you ask me and why VM cannot use heavy traffic shaping on bittorrent at peak times i don't know. Bittorrent because of its nature hammers the upstreams
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yeah your graph looks rough and in my view you done the best thing by downgrading.
My area has 120mbit coming in october and my normal upstream looks nearly as bad as yours, I found one which is ok although still congested so for me not all upstreams are bad. But as far as I can tell my downstreams are congested because moving to a better upstream didnt fix my download speeds.
For me VM need a rethink of their mindset.
First they have to accept they prepared to lose customers who are a hinderence, not get customers at all costs. When they accept that I would do the following.
Set a upload usage limit thats suitable for people doing things like uploading videos, photos, emails. But does not allow 24/7 torrenting. eg. on a 100mbit service I would think something like 30gig to be very reasonable and that should go a long way to reducing torrenting.
Then add in the AUP forbid servers been run on the residential service. Want to run a server? buy a business service. Gaming servers could be waived.
Rollout this new enhanced STM that has been in the rumours for over a year, I assume at the moment either VM have canned the idea or they cant get it to work. Comcast run a traffic management thats on 24/7 its dynamic, and more effective. It doesnt specifically throttle things like torrents but would more effectively throttle torrent abusers than VMs current system.
Add more upstream channels without increasing speeds further, I think each area needs at least US 6 channels with 2 sets of 3 bonded channels.
Use all 8 downstream channels without further increasing speeds.
Increase prices for the higher tiered products, I am on the lowest broadband package and was offered 120mbit the new top tier for just an extra £5 a month, thats ridicolous.