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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
There's a hairs breadth between what Igni has said and what mon General has opined. AT least that will be so in the General's eyes.
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Perhaps that may be the perception, but not the reality. It seemed to me that the General was referring to testing to ascertain throughput via certain applications which is definitely not VM's problem.
Performance in general use could only be ascertained on network segments fully upgraded to uplift specifications, using CPE of uplift specifications, so entirely futile to run such tests on network not fully upgraded and using the current 8x4 Superhub.
They are testing how much network load increases when the higher speeds are provided. There is a rule of thumb over such things however the UK's usage increases seem to break the trend among the Liberty family.
Find a stereotypical customer base segment averaging 50% utilisation, uplift it, if it goes to 70% you can reasonably assume that this pattern will, on the whole be replicated elsewhere and you need to add 40% additional capacity to maintain the current quality of service in addition to standard BAU upgrades.
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Originally Posted by japitts
It certainly makes me curious - I've had congestion issues at peak times since a few months now, and from reading between a few lines, I wouldn't be surprised if the "fix" and the "speed uplift works" are one and the same thing.
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The same changes as allow for the speed upgrades fix congestion, yes.
Generally when doing work to relieve congestion when an uplift is planned both would be done at the same time for efficiency reasons.
For example where the original plan would've been to double capacity to relieve congestion it would instead be quadrupled to supply uplift capacity simultaneously.
If you are in an area that requires extensive work to relieve congestion the two would be separate - the network rebuilds to relieve congestion would be part of business as usual network upgrade and would be followed by additional capacity to support the uplift.