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01-07-2014 1:56 PM
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Hi there,
I am an excited new customer awaiting my installation of 80/20 fibre broadband, and am hoping to get some clarification on Plusnet's traffic management.
From what I've read, Plusnet will prioritise VOIP, streaming, general browsing and other gold traffic above P2P/Usenet which is bronze. This will mean that when I am using P2P/Usenet during these activities, some of its bandwidth will be taken to server the gold traffic. I have two questions from this (assuming the aforementioned is correct).
First, how much of the bandwidth will be taken away from the P2P/Usenet download, just enough for the gold traffic to operate properly, or more excessively such that the drop in P2P/Usenet speed is noticeable?
Second, when I am not using my connection for gold activities, will my P2P activity operate at line speed? i.e. if I am getting speeds of 70mb, will my download speed come at 70mb (assuming seeds are at their highest, P2P program working, etc).
Thanks in advance for the support.
Kris
I am an excited new customer awaiting my installation of 80/20 fibre broadband, and am hoping to get some clarification on Plusnet's traffic management.
From what I've read, Plusnet will prioritise VOIP, streaming, general browsing and other gold traffic above P2P/Usenet which is bronze. This will mean that when I am using P2P/Usenet during these activities, some of its bandwidth will be taken to server the gold traffic. I have two questions from this (assuming the aforementioned is correct).
First, how much of the bandwidth will be taken away from the P2P/Usenet download, just enough for the gold traffic to operate properly, or more excessively such that the drop in P2P/Usenet speed is noticeable?
Second, when I am not using my connection for gold activities, will my P2P activity operate at line speed? i.e. if I am getting speeds of 70mb, will my download speed come at 70mb (assuming seeds are at their highest, P2P program working, etc).
Thanks in advance for the support.
Kris
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Re: New customer - traffic management query
01-07-2014 2:00 PM
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The drop in P2P or lower priority activities is just to allow the higher priority flows to work correctly, so if you're downloading at 70mb/s and start a 5mb/s stream , you should still download at around 65mb/s.
If your connection is not being used for anything else, you should get full speed on P2P (assuming enough seeds and that you're not completely saturating the upload).
If your connection is not being used for anything else, you should get full speed on P2P (assuming enough seeds and that you're not completely saturating the upload).
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01-07-2014 2:02 PM
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Have a read of this http://community.plus.net/blog/2012/12/21/its-unlimited-why-is-it-still-traffic-managed/
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01-07-2014 2:04 PM
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Oh excellent. Just the answer I was hoping for!
Thanks Strat, I read that multiple times (among other help pages) but since it is nearly two years old, I thought I would get some confirmation in case the rules had changed
Quote from: Strat Have a read of this http://community.plus.net/blog/2012/12/21/its-unlimited-why-is-it-still-traffic-managed/
Thanks Strat, I read that multiple times (among other help pages) but since it is nearly two years old, I thought I would get some confirmation in case the rules had changed
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