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Originally Posted by Kushan
we really need a better way of monitoring our data usage. Sadly, I get the feeling Virgin is putting this off as they're not monitoring it correctly themselves!
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Indeed, VM have always been useless at this, with BT being better but not by a whole lot. The mobile networks are really the ones to beat, as they all provide near-realtime data usage counters (some more accurate than others
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Doing it on the user's router would be the most accurate mechanism but can be very resource intensive depending on the level of detail you require, and doing it on the ISP's edge router would require considerably more network integration than they seem bothered to achieve
Then again STM by definition requires per subscriber data counters so if they already have that then it's just pulling the data off in the right way and sending it on to appropriate display systems that's needed. Then then again, they did get lazy with the STM turning it down to now polling only once every 15 minutes instead of realtime; not sure what their reasons were but I have a few suspicions...
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Someone might want to consider my mathematical hypothesis but lets say that in my segment/node, all I can get at peak time is 20 meg (which happened yesterday) and I'm defo not STM'd.
Doesn't that mean that everyone else on 120 meg can't get more than 20 meg at the same time whether or not STM's?
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Not necessarily. Again it'd depend on how well their load balancing is set up and the specific metrics used. STM'd customers may be deprioritized (that's what I'd do if I had to STM people...) but then again if business customers paying double don't get prioritized I doubt they'll be doing that. It's also possible (and sometimes feels like) they run a complete free-for-all without per service-flow quotas or balancing, so if someone just happened to have more torrent seeds than you they may get more speed.
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Originally Posted by Kushan
I guess the only thing wrong with that is assuming there's an even distribution of bandwidth and that everyone can only get 20meg. I'm not really sure how the load balancing works, but if you're only getting 20meg, does that definitely mean everyone else is getting only 20meg, or are some getting more than that?
I really do wish we had more data on how effective STM is under heavy congestion.
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When supposedly configured in a static, non-adaptive fashion across the whole country regardless of congestion levels it can't be very effective at all IMO. The only real effective way is the Comcast way and they seem to have deliberately abandoned that.