UKFSN p2p Reply

[jamjar]

Hi All I am looking to change isp's and its either UKFSN or Aquiss ,this is the email i got from UKFSN Support ,seemed fair ..

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, neil jarman wrote:

> Hi there Can you tell me if you are throttling your ' ADSL Max service'
> on p2p ? i am presently with Nildram ,and since they have gone in with
> Pipex the service has gone downhill,they are throttling on p2p and
> slowing it down ,which is a nitemare ! i hope that you are happy to
> answer my problems

We do not have such throttling.

Our ADSL partner, Enta, have a system in place to manage congestion and so
to prevent latency and packet loss which works as follows:

If usage on a particular central pipe exceeds 96% all users on that pipe
whose download speed is over 2.5Mb have their download speed reduced by
500kb/s. This is repeated until usage drops below 96% or the user
connections drop to 2Mb. The system will not drop speeds below 2Mb. Once
usage drops below 91% those users have their speeds increased in 200kb/s
increments.

Jason
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[iBot]

see the ukfsn thread

it's great, My p2p is speedy

 

[WotDa]

Speaking of emails from Jason:

BT have confirmed the committed activation date for your ADSL connection
as the 20 Feb 2007.

A whole two weeks after when I expected it to be, but what do you expect if BT can't get working systems, then I type my own postcode wrong.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

UKFSN don't throttle, shape or anything, p2p is fine.

As the e-mail says they only reduce the pipes to stop the packet loss/latency for online gaming when everyone jumps on at 10pm and sets their downloads away, depending on how full they get, will depend on how much they reduce the service, as it only goes down in 500 increments as they say, but will not go lower than 2mb, if its not that bad it may not reduce at all, or only reduce by 1mb etc... but as soon as it drops 500, if the load continues to be bad, then it will reduce another 500, if it goes ok, then they will up it again, its a cracking system imo, much better than just shaping p2p down to ridiculous speeds of about 20k 24/7, and the reduction affects everyone, not just those using p2p.