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Announcements => News Articles => Topic started by: Floydoid on April 18, 2008, 01:47:46 PM

Title: Regulating the internet traffic flow
Post by: Floydoid on April 18, 2008, 01:47:46 PM

Some interesting reading: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7354133.stm

Title: Re: Regulating the internet traffic flow
Post by: kitz on April 21, 2008, 10:44:09 AM

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"There must be adequate disclosures of the particular traffic management tools," said Mr Martin. "Consumers must be fully informed of the exact nature of the service they are purchasing."

Exactly!

I dont mind traffic shaping as long as what the ISP is doing is disclosed properly before the user signs up.
Different users all use their connection differently ..  some methods work better for some, others for others.
As long as what the ISP does is disclosed before to signing up then I see no problem.   Its all the nasty undisclosed stuff behind "Unlimited" that is very wrong.

Title: Re: Regulating the internet traffic flow
Post by: Pwiggler on April 21, 2008, 01:25:46 PM

i fully agree

remember the 6 months of trying to get BT to admit to traffic shaping i had.

i ended up speaking to what they called '5th level support' and they all denied that they ever heard of ellacoya.

disgusting !

Title: Re: Regulating the internet traffic flow
Post by: mr_chris on April 21, 2008, 10:49:13 PM

I'm in two minds about this.

Yes, I think it's absolutely essential that an ISP should disclose that they are performing traffic shaping, to let customers know what types of traffic will be restricted.

However, the EXACT nature of how shaping is applied, in particular which protocols are prioritised on the network, will inevitably be used by people to work around it - often in order to download obscene amounts of data - making the shaping work against the ISP, therefore it becomes a cat and mouse game.