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Old 23-03-2008, 22:15   #32
Woodgar
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Re: VM admit that STM hours vary without notice

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Originally Posted by TheNorm View Post
Why don't VM use a "rolling" STM system, where high users are capped only when the network traffic is heavy? If traffic is not suffering, there is no need for STM.

For example, if traffic is 90% capacity at 8.30pm, the top 3% downloaders (over the past hour) are capped. The situation is reviewed every half hour.
Interesting idea, and it would make it more fair.

If the stated aim of STM is to “punish those abusing the system”, then it would certainly seem to be fairer to use a more controlled method of capping rather than the blanket system we have now where everyone is capped irrespective of their actual affect on other users.
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