Jelv wrote:
> exchange being overloaded ?
I really wouldn't know. It may be a Wimbledon-final only thing, and I do very much care about things like that. There is also the thing about AA’s internal network, because they apply it within their own systems and you get guaranteed no internal packet drop which is very good.
What I am unsure of though is: Being so slow, do I get less out of this with or is it irrelevant? Maybe it is irrelevant, because they - AA and BT - perhaps just drop a certain random fraction of all the packets they have so my fraction would be the same as anyone else's fraction if we are both non-premium.
My instinct was: if in doubt spend the money, don't risk it. A lot of other people might very well have the opposite instinct!
I had no inclination to drop premium when we went 21CN even though, so I believe, the upstream sync rate cap of 448kbps no longer applied. Actually since the modem change, two of my lines are just below 448 unfortunately and before they were all above. That was the really bad thing about going to the ZyXEL modems - lost over 100kbps total sync rate upstream, which would be 88kbps IP PDU rate (ie including IP headers, so actual TCP payload would be even less, as IPv4/IPv6 headers + TCP headers + possible TCP timestamps would need to be taken out too).