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Originally Posted by AdamD
Because as I've found out, it doesn't matter if you can't hit the full 40, or 80mb, upgrading still grants you a higher speed.
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It shouldn't work that way. Something is/was broken if that's the case.
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Originally Posted by AdamD
But, it's the only true unlimited broadband in the UK these days, so it's worth the price I think.
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Uhh, my BT is true unlimited and £10 a month less
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Originally Posted by Qtx
Nothing in that article at all to suggest its not a good thing 
It would be preferential that ISP's sent out their hub/routers with a QoS setting turned on as default, to manage prioritisation of a homes traffic at a local level. Isp's who want to add more customers without paying out to upgrade their infrastructure to handle them, will traffic shape/prioritise traffic and tell the customers that its for their benefit
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The problem is downstream prioritization must be done at the ISP end to be effective. Your router can only prioritize upstream properly, although for most people that's enough because upstream tends to be slower and cause more latency when it fills up.
It's better to have it done at the ISP end and by default for your average layman who would know nothing about "QoS" or "protocols". In which case it simply provides a better "out of the box experience", which is what the vast majority of people would stick with anyway.