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Originally Posted by ferretuk
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 here
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.
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.
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. |
The post you pointed out by BPullen doesn't mention QoS at all. Just wanted to confirm that it is incorrectly (or correctly) being repeated that there is QoS on each individual customers line. Obviously I would expect it to be done at a central location across all customers so it would be interesting if they were doing it per line like has been said a few times.
Not actively marketed means it is still available if you ask for it?
If Plusnet had no worries about bandwidth, they wouldn't have had to include the QoS stuff in their plan. If they had full confidence in the network for the next year they could have offered it as fully unlimited/unmanaged like sky. Maybe small print to say that they may add it at some point if needed so they could revisit it in a years time. So it just says to me that within a year Plusnet expect the network to be running hot and having congestion issues that require traffic prioritisation. QoS makes perfect sense as the best option in that situation. Just don't agree with them trying to imply it is for other reasons.
In the future we will probably come across some technology that makes bandwidth abundant with little cost, which is where I was coming from. If someone said to you 15 years ago that you will have a mobile phone that is more powerful than the computer on your desk in 15 years time.....