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General Maximus · 05-03-2014, 15:04

yup, there are no download thresholds anymore so regardless of whether you are downloading stuff on Steam or torrents, it isnt a case of "you have downloaded 5gb so we are going to cap you to 50%. Obviously on normal stuff you will get whatever speed is available which you would expect to be close to max. P2P traffic is till shaped which means that during stm/peak hours p2p traffic will be flagged as low priority which may result in abnormally low speeds. Personally I have never noticed it affect torrents but newsgroups can crawl to a halt (literally) unless you use SSL. Soooo, like I said with torrents, I have always been able to get full speed and now that stm has been removed I can continue to download as much as I want (in theory) and not have to worry about any speed reduction.

05-03-2014, 15:04	#41
General Maximus cf.mega poster Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lincoln Services: phone + 1gbit BB + SkyQ Posts: 11,021	Re: Traffic Management Update yup, there are no download thresholds anymore so regardless of whether you are downloading stuff on Steam or torrents, it isnt a case of "you have downloaded 5gb so we are going to cap you to 50%. Obviously on normal stuff you will get whatever speed is available which you would expect to be close to max. P2P traffic is till shaped which means that during stm/peak hours p2p traffic will be flagged as low priority which may result in abnormally low speeds. Personally I have never noticed it affect torrents but newsgroups can crawl to a halt (literally) unless you use SSL. Soooo, like I said with torrents, I have always been able to get full speed and now that stm has been removed I can continue to download as much as I want (in theory) and not have to worry about any speed reduction.