In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

Plusnet congestion tho slowing down downstream on both.

Generally how have you found PlusNet compared to BT Infinity? I'm starting to look at alternatives, as I want static IP again, but I don't like the PN traffic management.

(I have big issues with person A's legit traffic being slowed down because person B wants to watch iPlayer, and think all people paying the same should see same slowdown).

In reply to a post by jchamier:

(I have big issues with person A's legit traffic being slowed down because person B wants to watch iPlayer, and think all people paying the same should see same slowdown).

But that is the real issue, if you slow down persons B's traffic they really will see the slow down.

As you are probably aware I'm with PN, and I have used torrents on a Sunday evening and noticed no slow down, in fact the torrent would almost max out my connection, although I'm only getting around 47Mbps.

I would also be interested to hear what Chrysalis thinks so far.

Edited by R0NSKI (Thu 02-Jan-14 20:16:23)

In reply to a post by R0NSKI:

But that is the real issue, if you slow down persons B's traffic they really will see the slow down.

I just don't think its fair in pricing terms. That my streaming a pay per view movie to my Apple TV is slowed down in preference to someone watching iPlayer. (Since the ISP can't tell if I'm streaming the Apple movie, or downloading it to watch later on iPad/iPhone or Mac/Windows PC).

As you are probably aware I'm with PN, and I have used torrents on a Sunday evening and noticed no slow down, in fact the torrent would almost max out my connection, although I'm only getting around 47Mbps.

I hope being in BT ownership that the actual effects of the traffic management are mostly non visible to everyone.

I would also be interested to hear what Chrysalis thinks so far.

maybe? is your line interleaved.

dispite all the comments on forums about interleaved having no negative affects on speeds, it actually does when you understand BDP.

A big factor tho more so than servers is the derfault configuration on client operating systems, out of the box windows 7 eg. cannot handle much more than 3-4mbit/sec per thread on 30ms latency.

So far it isnt all smooth sailing. It also isnt terrible tho.

I think 2 days is a bit early for a reasonable review so consider this more "notes"

PPP dropped by plusnet first morning after connected, which has me wary of frequent disconnections, I wasnt disconnected this morning.
Some visible congestion this evening, the TBB speedtester shows 50-75% throughput on the non threaded test, on BT that was maxed out everytime.
On external ftp and some other tests I did from fast sources some light visible congestion.
Some light congestion visible on speedtest.net.
Before I upgraded to pro I had packetloss on ssh sessions using non standard ports.

Its a list of things, but I will point out the congestion is light, not heavy.

No,

And I fully understand interleaving - I was doing teh equivalent of mux'ed digital voice comms back in the late 80's.