Thread: Virgin Media to dump neutrality and target BitTorrent users
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Old 16-12-2008, 13:15   #8
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Re: Virgin Media to dump neutrality and target BitTorrent users
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Originally Posted by hoohim View Post
Commercial suicide.
Retentions are going to be busy.
Except it's not.

If it was all the other ISPs that employ traffic shaping (and there are many) would have gone bump by now. Strangely they haven't, why is that?

Traffic shaping makes perfect sense when you're forced to oversell capacity to even break even (people seriously underestimate how cheap it is to provide bandwidth to end users). If you don't want shaping and want gaurenteed bandwidth go get a leased line. Residential connections will ALWAYS be oversubscribed so will always need measures in place to ensure latency dependant applications get priority when usage exceeds capacity.
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