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Originally Posted by Qtx
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.
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I'm sure I've seen it somewhere but I can't find it either at the moment. I'll keep looking but, for the reasons I gave for being in favour of prioritisation, it would actually be better if the policy was used across the whole of Plusnet's network.
Edit 21:47 - See the post from Bob Pullen
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Originally Posted by Qtx
It has been mentioned before that home routers can do the QoS on a users connection.
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Not effectively for downstream data and, for the best customer experience, the ISP is best placed to apply the policy, albeit with the caveat that they are then in control, not the customer.
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Originally Posted by Qtx
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.
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He's also explained that the Pro add-on is a hangover from their 'limited' product, is liable to degrade performance and is no longer actively marketed.
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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.
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I don't believe that will be the case any time soon, if ever. I certainly wouldn't buy shares in a company that wastes its money by buying enough bandwidth to allow all customers to have full line speed 24x7 - It simply isn't good economics, regardless of cost reductions.