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Originally Posted by dezzo
*Sigh* 
So have any of the ADSL providers introduced capping or traffic shaping? How about other ISP's in other parts of the world?
At the end of the day you cannot expect Ntl or Telewest to throw huge amounts of money at their networks to ensure everyone can download vast amounts of data, chat for hours on Voip calls and stream enough video to make you go blind.
Like it or not Ntl/Telewest are NOT specialist ISP's who will provide a clean, uniterrupted internet feed. They are mass-market providers and they will react to what they feel the majority wants. If that involves shaping traffic to reduce P2P to a trickle then thats what they will do. |
I believe ntl doesnt have to pay BT £20 per mbit for bt central traffic as it owns its own network, the adsl isps that are doing shaping have much higher proportional costs per customer and it isnt a fair comparison.
Also 50kB of a server which at same time can do 800kB to a friend's telewest connection sorry is a poor broadband service.
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Originally Posted by TrancerSteve
No sighing please  .
NTL knows that since the 10meg upgrades their network can't deliver. This is not even local congestion aswell, but going right up to their routers that direct traffic to peering companies. Ive never before seen such fluctuating speeds with an ISP before. Sure they don't promise it to be 100% stable all of the time, its not a leased line we have by any means!.. But I expect it to perform in a certain margin most of the time... im sure others do too.
My experience with ADSL when it comes to congestion is its got the finger on the pulse. With keeping an eye on network performance and installing new DSLAMs when needed... Id like to know what hardware changes/upgrades NTL are doing instead of the cheap and nasty route of rolling out software to shape traffic.
Boo hiss at cutting corner methods... but I guess we can't have it all, especially with these fast (when they want to be!) speeds.
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applauds
new defenition of fluctuation.
4am 10mbit
9am 10mbit
midday 8mbit
2pm 5mbit
4pm 2mbit
7pm 0.5mbit
9pm 1.5mbit
midnight 3mbit
2am 8mbit
3am 10mbit