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eljay · 03-10-2013, 12:43

It would also appear that STM is not working as much as they would like. They now appear to be having a further go at the peer to peer users as per their rather ambigous announcement below which has recently appeared on their forum.

"We're always striving to give you the fastest possible broadband speeds at peak times. To do this our traffic management policy is there to ensure that the small number of very heavy downloaders and uploaders at peak times on our network don't affect the online experience for everyone else.

As part of our policy, we've always slowed down Peer to Peer applications at peak times (from 4pm -12 midnight on Monday to Friday and 11am - 12 midnight at weekends). However due to the nature of Peer to Peer applications some traffic has been unaffected for the past few months, which has impacted other types of traffic at peak times.

So to solve this we're updating our management solution so it's more effective. We'll be rolling these updates out across certain areas of our network, starting this evening (2nd Oct) with Northampton."

We'll post further news on this here on the forum as the updates progress.

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eljay Inactive Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Staines upon Thames Services: Sky Q 2TB & 1 Mini Box, Box Sets, Sky Broadband Max and Sky Talk Anytime Posts: 93	Re: STM always enforced? It would also appear that STM is not working as much as they would like. They now appear to be having a further go at the peer to peer users as per their rather ambigous announcement below which has recently appeared on their forum. "We're always striving to give you the fastest possible broadband speeds at peak times. To do this our traffic management policy is there to ensure that the small number of very heavy downloaders and uploaders at peak times on our network don't affect the online experience for everyone else. As part of our policy, we've always slowed down Peer to Peer applications at peak times (from 4pm -12 midnight on Monday to Friday and 11am - 12 midnight at weekends). However due to the nature of Peer to Peer applications some traffic has been unaffected for the past few months, which has impacted other types of traffic at peak times. So to solve this we're updating our management solution so it's more effective. We'll be rolling these updates out across certain areas of our network, starting this evening (2nd Oct) with Northampton." We'll post further news on this here on the forum as the updates progress.