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Originally Posted by Ignition
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Traffic shaping will only show when hitting a 'ceiling' of some sort, flat horizontal lines, like the ones seen on the combined graph before they replaced it with the new ones.
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Ok hold on, lets say you have a traffic shaping policy in place, it kicks in no matter whats going on. So 1000 users are downloading something of microsoft.com at 120kB on their 2mbit connections and without the shaping it would normally be 1000x240kB, it wont flat line it will just be lower peak, as a reult of traffic shaping. So isp's traffic shaping can give the impression they not hitting capacity because the shaping is what is saving them hit capacity.
Flat horizontal lines are normally an indication of total capacity been reached. But can also be a result of a shaping policy that limits total traffic.