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dragon · 02-07-2015, 09:36

Just a random thought about oversubscribed areas (A friend of mine is in one makes playing games with him at peak time impossible because his latency is all over the place)

Wouldn't it make sense for VM to implement temporary STM/Throttling at peak time in these areas down to something like 5 - 10Mbit/s to reduce the congestion or will that not help?

As surely a slower connection that at least works would be better than the current mess you get where you're lucky to get a couple mbit/s and the latency is all over the place spiking beyond 500ms.

Obviously that wouldn't be a satisfactory permanent fix but it might at least maintain some kind of quality of service whilst the upgrades are being planned/implemented.

Edit:

Also VM would have to be transparent about what they're doing and the reasons behind it.

02-07-2015, 09:36	#1
dragon Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 3,898	Oversubscribed areas? Just a random thought about oversubscribed areas (A friend of mine is in one makes playing games with him at peak time impossible because his latency is all over the place) Wouldn't it make sense for VM to implement temporary STM/Throttling at peak time in these areas down to something like 5 - 10Mbit/s to reduce the congestion or will that not help? As surely a slower connection that at least works would be better than the current mess you get where you're lucky to get a couple mbit/s and the latency is all over the place spiking beyond 500ms. Obviously that wouldn't be a satisfactory permanent fix but it might at least maintain some kind of quality of service whilst the upgrades are being planned/implemented. Edit: Also VM would have to be transparent about what they're doing and the reasons behind it.