The details (as made public by PlusNet) are explained somewhere on here: Broadband Your Way Blueprint. Check the section called: IPStream Broadband Pricing.
The problem here is that iplayer is being pushed very heavily to non savvy audiences via the TV, so all these people who don't understand this either use up all their usage very quickly, or hammer their ISP's connectivity to the customer. Because of the way (non cable/LLU) ISPs have to buy bandwidth to the customer from BT, you end up with either spiralling costs as the ISP tries to give the customer a good service, traffic management to control it, or the VoIP, gaming, HTTP traffic of ALL of the customers using that pipe being slowed/dropped
This particular ISP may be bitching and moaning but frankly that's because they're discovering they can't compete. Virgin Media (Cable) recently announced a UK-wide upgrade for all of it's customers. My currently 4MB connection is going up to 10MB. I don't hear the any bitching from them, and they clearly wouldn't be doing it if bandwidth was really a problem
Enjoy your rather draconian traffic management:D
Broadband Size: L
During peak times, the top 3% of downloaders on the Size: L package download at least 800MB of traffic each, with the top 3% of uploaders uploading at least 325MB of traffic each.
Any users hitting this amount during peak times (4pm till 9pm) will have their broadband speed temporarily traffic managed their download speed will be set to 1Mb, with their upload speed set to 128Kb. This will last for 5 hours from when the traffic management policy is applied.
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The details (as made public by PlusNet) are explained somewhere on here: Broadband Your Way Blueprint. Check the section called: IPStream Broadband Pricing.
Good on you! That is how PlusNet attempt to sell their broadband.
The problem here is that iplayer is being pushed very heavily to non savvy audiences via the TV, so all these people who don't understand this either use up all their usage very quickly, or hammer their ISP's connectivity to the customer.
Because of the way (non cable/LLU) ISPs have to buy bandwidth to the customer from BT, you end up with either spiralling costs as the ISP tries to give the customer a good service, traffic management to control it, or the VoIP, gaming, HTTP traffic of ALL of the customers using that pipe being slowed/dropped
No, you are missing the point (as are quite a few people)
This comment explains: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=463112&cid=22516450
Enjoy your rather draconian traffic management :D
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html