I thought I’d share an interesting little phenomenon that we’ve noticed over the last few weeks. Each Saturday evening traffic between roughly 6pm and 7:30pm there’s a very distinctive decrease in gold traffic. It happens almost exactly when Doctor Who is on TV. More…
As you may or may not know, here at PlusNet we employ a traffic management system to ensure that the network traffic for “interactive” applications (like web browsing, gaming, instant messaging, etc) is treated with higher priority than, for instance, peer-to-peer traffic. More…
One of the biggest and most anticipated games of the year, Grand Theft Auto IV, was released last week. From Rockstar Games this is the sequel to the hugely successful Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and has been released on both Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. Rumoured to have cost around $100m to develop with over 1,000 people working on it at some point it is the most expensive game ever.
The subject of filesharing is one that will run and run. It’s one that elicits emotion and gets people talking. Many many thousands, millions maybe, of people are interested in the subject whether as a file sharer themselves, a copyright holder (or both), an ISP, a legislator or just an outside observer. This subject has people talking and they have many opinions. We posted a couple of months ago about action taken by one software house against people they believed had illegally downloaded and/or uploaded their copyright material and we’ve responded to David Cameron’s call for ISPs to block copyright material. More…
One topic that is sure to get an emotive reaction is the idea of authorities spying on you. Likewise many people might feel uncomfortable about ISPs monitoring customers’ broadband lines. But there is an increasing call for ISPs to track and monitor more and more.
We are currently looking at our plans for rolling out and marketing the next generation of broadband products. We’ll be publishing more details on how that’s going to work soon, but for now we want some help.
This request goes out to our customers and to anyone that has an opinion on how the speed of broadband is sold in this country. For the purposes of consistency within this blog I’m going to try and talk about ADSL2+; the underlying technology behind the forthcoming broadband services from BT Wholesale. More…
Neil Berkett, the new CEO of Virgin Media, has been fanning the flames of the Net neutrality debate. Interviewed by the Royal Television Society’s Television magazine he put it bluntly: “This net neutrality thing is a load of [censored]”.
In the same interview he attacks net neutrality campaigners and says that Virgin are in the process of signing deals with unnamed content providers. This would prioritise the traffic from these sites to Virgin’s customers and slow down traffic from those providers who don’t pay.
This post is intended as a short article centred on how we manage the gaming experience for our customers. I’ve focussed on:
It’s been a couple of weeks since we posted the last blog about usage and in particular what’s becoming the “iPlayer effect” so figured an update was probably due now that we have February’s usage data processed.
We’ll stick with a similar format and start with a few headlines. I don’t think this post really needs to be as long as the previous ones, more trying to keep the data up to date and looking the trends.
As reported by Ireland.com and TorrentFreak Ireland’s largest ISP Eircom is being taken to court by the “big four” record labels (EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner). More…
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