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Originally Posted by obvious
Well apparently ntl have blocked programs like DocsDiag from seeing just how under utilised their network is. ntl no longer permit SNMP access to the ISP-side addresses of cable modems, so the -traffic facility of DocsDiag will no longer work.
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That program never actually worked properly and any figures it gave were a guesstimate and usually quite on the low side.
Also do you actually know at which point load on a downstream or upstream becomes service affecting? It's not 100%
Just why should we allow customers to observe the traffic on the equipment of ours they connect to. If/when this stuff starts getting enforced, people will be able to check their own traffic. Load on our network isn't really any of their business - we generally require some free capacity for burst, load changes a lot during the day / night, etc.
Impractical, not to mention dangerous. The idea of BT selling to postcodes on the grounds that the CMTS card covering that area is 65% utilised isn't really a big commercial goer.