[SWLUG] Introduction

[Jonathan Wright]

Steve Hill wrote:
> I use PlusNet, who have provided me with a pretty good service at a 
> reasonable price, but I don't use vast amounts of downstream bandwidth 
> (I bittorrent down a gig or so a month) and they _do_ have bandwidth 
> limits (can't remember how much - check the AUP).  And alledgedly they 
> do traffic shaping to prioritise stuff like RTP, HTTP, etc (no idea how 
> they identify different protocols - I suspect they just prioritise all 
> UDP and certain protocols to known TCP ports such as HTTP, etc).

The limits are based on your connection, but IIRC up to 2Mb, it's 100Gb, 
up 4Mb it's 120Gb and 8Mb is 150Gb - but, and it's a big but, they also 
manage peak-time traffic (4pm - 12am I think) and there are warning 
periods and different levels of control if you go past it. You'll have 
to see their documents on how they manage it for more detailed information.

I was regularly hitting about 90Gb a month (on a 1Mb line) and they 
never complained.


However, as for traffic shaping, and being someone who has gone to 
another company and hence lost it - you do really notice it. Web 
browsing and SSH are must more responsive with it, and is the one thing 
I would love Zen to adopt!

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