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handyman · 24-03-2006, 20:10

I'm surprised no one has read the threads on this and the clues from the people in the know, or maybe you don't know which people are in the know.

Looks like ntl have equipment installed that can monitor and traffic shape.
With this in place they can open up the service as unlimited and keep the peak times nice and speedy for the people surfing ebay and checking their mail whilst leaving the night time for the p2p leechers.

I already traffic shape my own bt adsl connection as there are 7 PC's on the network and whilst its tempting to be caning the connection 24/7 I have to make suer that theres sufficient bandwidth for them. So from 11pm till 8am its unlimited to my pc other times dropped back to a 1/6 of the download bandwidth and 1/4 upload.

If I was on ntl this would not make any difference to me at all.

24-03-2006, 20:10	#42
handyman Permanently Banned Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Nr Carnforth Age: 50 Services: M6 Keele Posts: 5,462	Re: 10 meg unlimited? I'm surprised no one has read the threads on this and the clues from the people in the know, or maybe you don't know which people are in the know. Looks like ntl have equipment installed that can monitor and traffic shape. With this in place they can open up the service as unlimited and keep the peak times nice and speedy for the people surfing ebay and checking their mail whilst leaving the night time for the p2p leechers. I already traffic shape my own bt adsl connection as there are 7 PC's on the network and whilst its tempting to be caning the connection 24/7 I have to make suer that theres sufficient bandwidth for them. So from 11pm till 8am its unlimited to my pc other times dropped back to a 1/6 of the download bandwidth and 1/4 upload. If I was on ntl this would not make any difference to me at all.