Why is a PN profile necessary?
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Why is a PN profile necessary?
13-08-2012 11:14 AM
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13-08-2012 11:19 AM
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Quote from: Chris We match the IP profile against BT Wholesale so we can apply per user QoS to your line. This allows us to prioritise your high priority traffic above low priority traffic. If we didn't have this profile then we wouldn't know the maximum rate your line could support, therefore if we allowed more traffic through on our side of the network than your line could support you would see random packet loss at the BTW BRAS and this could be any type of traffic (VoIP, P2P etc).
So by applying the profile on our side we can control what traffic is affected first, therefore allowing high priority traffic to be unaffected and only the lowest priority traffic to be affected.
To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine
Re: Why is a PN profile necessary?
13-08-2012 11:28 AM
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13-08-2012 12:31 PM
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13-08-2012 1:22 PM
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Plusnet, how about running a trial of a no/fixed PN Profile?
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13-08-2012 1:27 PM
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Quote from: ReedRichards Plusnet, how about running a trial of a no/fixed PN Profile?
PN must be moving in this direction as with all fibre accounts the PN profile is fixed, so I guess they don't see it as so much of a problem when there are such vast amounts of bandwidth available?
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13-08-2012 1:29 PM
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Quote PN must be moving in this direction as with all fibre accounts the PN profile is fixed, so I guess they don't see it as so much of a problem when there are such vast amounts of bandwidth available?
We do have profiles for Fibre but not for 80/20 (yet)
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13-08-2012 1:39 PM
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13-08-2012 1:50 PM
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13-08-2012 1:57 PM
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Alternatively it may not
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13-08-2012 4:11 PM
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As the old saying goes: "If it's broke, is it economically repairable?". It's clear that Plusnet's system for tracking your BT IP profile is a bit iffy at the best of times and responds much more slowly than intended at the worst of times. I presume somebody is putting some effort into fixing this but I wonder if this is really worthwhile? Or has the problem just been brushed under the carpet?
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14-08-2012 1:14 PM
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14-08-2012 2:05 PM
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Quote from: _Adam_Walker_ ... matching BT's profile is pivotal to our traffic management system ..
What I cannot get my head around is how you (Plusnet) can cope with the 24 hour delay that is normal and the 72 hour delay that seems quite common. If your system can cope with mismatched profiles then it can't be pivotal.
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