New upload speeds and Network Management

[rickymallory]

The awesome news is STM limits on the evening period have been increased, it was 1400MB on 20Mb but it now says 3000MB, that's quite a good boost. other tiers will get a boost too.

[dudload]

yeah, when i heard STM i was thinking it was all going to be bad news. im on 50MB and actually dont mind the restrictions. i get a nice boost out of peak and peak will never go below what i had before - happy days!

[broadbandking]

I am confused, during peak times what is NTTP,BT speeds going to be reduced to?

[roger skillin]

I'm upgrading to 50mb next week so this is great news, not really worried about the upload cap, at least they're not touching the download and 1.75 up will still be fine for me when uploading to Vstuff

[Kymmy]

I wonder how this will impact on the business users???

[pabscars]

Great news all round, and nice to see a sensible approach to STM on XXL, it gets my thumbs up.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by broadbandking

I am confused, during peak times what is NTTP,BT speeds going to be reduced to?

They will get whatever is left over after other higher priority protocols have had their share of the bandwidth, so it will depend on how busy the network is with these other protocols.

The link does specifically state though that during peak times NNTP and P2P will get no more than 25% of the network capacity.

[broadbandking]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

They will get whatever is left over after other higher priority protocols have had their share of the bandwidth, so it will depend on how busy the network is with these other protocols.

Thats fair enough, just means downloads will have to wait, not that I download much, just mainly surfing and gaming.

[janipewter]

Wahey announced! Now no doubt a 9 month wait until I get it...

[Thyroid Help]

Originally Posted by Central

Have you even read the posts or links posted?

Says on there

Erm hostile??

I have Now read and have seen it will go downto just under what we are getting at present, so it's all good not that bothered about the STM and will probably only touch the STM rarely.

[pabscars]

May as well chuck this link in as well

http://www.virginmedia.com/myvirginm...ment_table.php

[AL123]

Hmmm seems like a rather blunt tool if that 25% figure for Usenet/ bitorrent is correct.

I Signed up to a unlimited pakage with no shaping, i'm quite happy to have my traffic shaped if the network is busy but i don't see how Usenet, which is usually a paid for service should get such a low priority compared to HTTP services. If the shaping is heavy then i will be switching, might aswell have a slower broadband/ Sky pakage if it slows been down heavily. It's ok saying to schedule but if this hits me too heavily there is no point as i want my content now, not tomorrow! Anyway we'll see how it affects i suppose, especially with 100mbit on the horizon

[Hugh]

AL123, if you check the link in the post above yours, it clearly states that there is no Management on XXL downloads, and there is an upstream limit of 6GB between 3pm and 8pm, after which upstream speed will be reduced by 65% for 5 hours, so you shouldn't be affected.

[Ignitionnet]

NNTP uses a lot of resources, disproportionately so, binary NNTP is almost universally copyright infringement, and Virgin make zero money out of NNTP. That's why the low priority.

---------- Post added at 14:40 ---------- Previous post was at 14:40 ----------

Originally Posted by Hugh

AL123, if you check the link in the post above yours, it clearly states that there is no Management on XXL downloads, and there is an upstream limit of 6GB between 3pm and 8pm, after which upstream speed will be reduced by 65% for 5 hours, so you shouldn't be affected.

It states that all tiers will be shaped though Hugh.

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

It states that all tiers will be shaped though Hugh.

50Mb download is unaffected only the upload is to be shaped.