But what kind of traffic shaping?
Talkback Any ISP which says it doesn't use traffic shaping at all is lying, unless it simply doesn't have enough subscribers to fill up its pipes. Is it then doing good traffic shaping, or bad traffic shaping.
About: BT says no to traffic shaping
[April 16, 2007, 13:21 by David Meyer]
What a hypocrite!
Talkback And yet BT is currently engaged in massive traffic-shaping, which commenced - somewhat ironically - this month, coinciding with this article. Whilst it's certainly good to hear that BT has no plans to implement traffic shaping under 21CN, I wish...
About: BT says no to traffic shaping
[April 16, 2007, 13:02 by 201206]
not that hard a decission
Talkback the evil in people will soon come out and traffic shaping will be abused by higher powers! Traffic shaping can be used for good but until there are more checks and balances in place than i say wait and stick to neutral for now!
About: Deep packet inspection: What you should know
[August 16, 2008, 21:13 by stl_saint]
Which class are you?
Talkback There are good points and bad points to traffic shaping, for instance a standard user will not see much impact from bandwidth throttling while using common applications. While traffic from these is minimal, they can still reflect on how you use the...
About: BT says no to traffic shaping
[April 18, 2007, 13:02 by welshtroll]
Not all ISPs target P2P as badly as BT
Talkback There were many furious posts from people who know a good deal more about this than myself, and the net result was that they agree with you; traffic shaping to *some* degree is expected. There are still ISPs that don't traffic shape or, if they do...
About: BT says no to traffic shaping
[April 18, 2007, 10:32 by Blitterbug]
RE: Lazy developers throw clunky applications over the wall
Blog Comment A traffic manager also contains a collection of techniques that those vendors have developed to improve the scalability and performance of an application - session persistence, caching, rate shaping etc that a developer can rely on rather than...
[August 7, 2009, 15:11 by ogarrett@zeus.com]
Intel Developer Forum - Day Zero
Blog And it's shaping up to be a rare 'un. Fantastic - even if I can't reveal which keynote regular unwisely told Mike Magee about the DIP 10pm Internet traffic peak. It is September. I find myself in the bar of the Marriott in San Francisco.
[September 22, 2009, 10:16 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Strategic Towns with 100Mbps Broadband
Talkback The point is ADSL2+ can be between 1Mbps and 24Mbps, add in contention ratios, traffic shaping, line quality, distance from the exchange, internal house wiring extensions, saturated BT networks, wireless routers that convert this to wireless and...
About: BT wants BBC to pay for iPlayer
[June 12, 2009, 19:15 by adamjarvis]
I agree
Talkback Yes, it sucks. And in answer to your question I would class myself as a medium user. There are six PC users sharing a connection in my house; it only take one of us to play Maple Story, or start a torrent, for the rest of us to be hit.
About: BT says no to traffic shaping
[April 18, 2007, 10:39 by Blitterbug]
