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| Originally Posted by Matt-75 If you use constant large volume amounts of bandwidth between 5pm and midnight, they seem to get a bit anal about it, and cap you to 128k/sec. |
err... no, you may get throttled (NOT capped) at the following speeds:
Broadband size M (2Mbps) throttled to 1Mbps
Broadband size L (10Mbps) throttled to 2.5 Mbps
Broadband size XL (20Mbps) throttle to 5Mbps
This will all change when the XXL (50Mbps) is rolled out as the same issues with contention will not exist.
Compare this with ADSL, where
everyone slows down when the torrenters and binary newsgroup users are busy - everyone suffers a slow down! At least by throttling just those who download huge amounts casual users should suffer less in the way of service drops.
As for Phorm ... cookie blocking is worthwhile at the moment as there is nothing at ISP side that is tracking activity yet.