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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
you missed the bit on traffic management? The bit where they say it cant be significant on unlimited products..
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If there is a threshold based shaping policy
then it cannot be severe. No threshold based shaping policy exists, therefore the strength of it is irrelevant.
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Originally Posted by ferretuk
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.
If it works as advertised, I believe this to be superior to a service with no prioritisation, but then I would as I've signed up for the product  |
I've always said DS propritisation on the ISP side is the only place it can work properly, the problem is any ISP that does it does not give you any control over it.
For example you have port 443 SSL traffic prioritized on the basis it's used for interactive, speed sensitive web browsing. Then you have a VPN or newsgroups connection on that same port that also gets prioritised, thus drowning out your gaming traffic because your game runs on an unrecognized port and protocol and gets classified as bulk.
Good if it works properly, not good if one-size-fits-all doesn't fit you.
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Originally Posted by Qtx
If they came along and said the traffic shaping is actually QoS and individual to each household, then fair enough
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But I thought they already
did?
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
We not all like that tho, some of us dont mind paying extra, but then some will jump on that and think we should be paying for leased lines if we dont want over subscription.
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Some of us don't pay attention to advertising and make decisions based on doing their own research. Course technical oversubscription is the only thing that allows your broadband connection to cost less than £100 a month.