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Originally Posted by ferretuk
And to bring this thread back on topic...
The Plusnet offering is also unlimited with the advantage over Sky that there's prioritisation on your downlink to ensure that real time data (Video streaming, VOIP etc) is not adversely affected by other less critical data requested by users on your LAN.
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That has been mentioned a few times in this thread yet I have not seen it documented anywhere yet. If it is a conclusion taken from the Plusnet blog then I think some have been confused or mislead by the description. The blog gives an example of how it would work on a homes individual traffic but nowhere states it is per customers line rather than all customers collectively.
It has been mentioned before that home routers can do the QoS on a users connection.
As bpullen said, traffic management has been given a bad name due to how it has been used in the past although it can actually be useful. But plusnets own graphs showed that by paying more you could have P2P and other traffic with the same priority as lower paying customers gaming traffic, which blew their credibility/honesty out of the water.
If they came along and said the traffic shaping is actually QoS and individual to each household, then fair enough. Otherwise its nothing more than telling customers we are limiting our unlimited product for your own good, so they don't seem so bad.
Traffic shaping has its benefits on congested networks, so maybe Plusnet will be congested?
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Originally Posted by ferretuk
The Internet, and each ISP's network, is a shared, contended, resource and ISP will (and should) continue to evolve stategies to ensure the best 'experience' for their customers. In time I'd expect (and applaud) wider use of prioritisation (aka QoS) to achieve this.
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In the future they will look back and laugh at the concept of individual ISP's not having enough bandwidth to handle all their customers. With all the advancements and low costs, there could be a point where all networks have 10 to 100x more bandwidth than they actually need for all their customers.
QoS is a good stop gap until then. ISP's will abuse it though by allowing you to pay more to have your traffic prioritised higher and net neutrality out the window.