Congestion Neutrality in practice

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Who said traffic shaping and prioritization couldn't be done in a transparent and neutral way?

Look over here .



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Transparency is a good thing, however... there is another page that merits a look. It tells you your expected speeds, and it turns out that almost everything is rate limited:

http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/download_speeds.shtml#valueSpeeds

OK, I admit I'm on the cheapskate package with PlusNet, but that type of package has been fine since I first got broadband in 2002 - until now. These rate limits just seem to be an excuse to extract more money from customers like me. I'm a light user, and not even that impatient - but this is not funny.

From lunchtime onwards, I can't download at any speed over 1 Mbps, even though my router says I'm connected at 8 Mbps. This is a big deal because it affects me when I download new drivers or software, which I've been doing a lot of as I recently changed PC. Who wants to wait 45 minutes to download Firefox, or 2 hours to receive a 30 minute audio file?

I was aware of the traffic prioritisation when I signed up for the service, but not the rate limits. Perhaps this is a new policy. At any rate, these limits are so low that it puts me back into the stone age. That's not my idea of a good ISP.

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