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Qtx · 02-09-2013, 19:47

VM have admitted on several occasions that the Youtube problems were down to them not having a big enough pipe to the CDN. Even if the Youtube issue is down to VM's choice of partners the bottom line is their customers have problems streaming which shows that local caching can cause more problems than going directly to the real servers. The theory is it should be better the VM experience says otherwise.

So the partnering with Playstation may cause slow downloads and other problems in a similar way. You have to trust VM to get it right this time.

I did wonder if this would be a sneaky way for VM to bring in more traffic shaping in the way of packet prioritisation under the guise of Playsation and other gaming traffic. Start with telling customers that gaming packets get higher priority and over time introduce more packet juggling.

02-09-2013, 19:47	#84
Qtx Inactive Join Date: May 2012 Location: Probably outside the M25 Services: Sky Fibre Unlimited 40/10 Posts: 3,473	Re: Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year? VM have admitted on several occasions that the Youtube problems were down to them not having a big enough pipe to the CDN. Even if the Youtube issue is down to VM's choice of partners the bottom line is their customers have problems streaming which shows that local caching can cause more problems than going directly to the real servers. The theory is it should be better the VM experience says otherwise. So the partnering with Playstation may cause slow downloads and other problems in a similar way. You have to trust VM to get it right this time. I did wonder if this would be a sneaky way for VM to bring in more traffic shaping in the way of packet prioritisation under the guise of Playsation and other gaming traffic. Start with telling customers that gaming packets get higher priority and over time introduce more packet juggling.