Perhaps Telewest should consider some *shock* traffic shaping
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Originally Posted by ian@huth
The higher that broadband speeds go, the more that contention will be an issue. You will not get full speed or anything like it with high speed connections unless you pay for a leased line, a very low contention line or are contended with users who hardly ever use their connection. I doubt that Watchdog would show any interest in the matter as contention issues are a feature of low cost, high speed broadband particularly when the ISP has little or no money to invest in the network.
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They don't necessarily have to be a feature if traffic is handled properly, however following a policy of being totally unlimited with no traffic management and charging low prices isn't the best recipe.
Along with this I'm not convinced that Telewest will want to bust a gut to upgrade at this point anyway with the takeover coming up, companies rarely do.
Oh and those speeds are
not acceptable, even for a contended network. That's going beyond congestion, 87% is
far too high to run a DOCSIS upstream. These should be kept from getting congested by any means possible. Downstream can congest and not cause major problems, upstream congestion is a killer.