Yet another of the big ISP's are announcing their desire to hit p2p and other users that might require a reasonable service ( like the sort they signed up for).
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=34695From Time Warner's Help Desk
TIME WARNER ANNOUNCES INTRODUCTION OF PACKET SHAPING TECHNOLOGY NATIONWIDE
June 6, 2007 -- Time Warner today implemented a network management tool to improve the operation of the network for all subscribers. As a result, a small minority of users may experience slower speeds during peak hours when using certain applications that consume lots of bandwidth. You can address this situation by reducing your use of bandwidth-intensive applications during peak hours. "Peak hours" are generally in the evenings.
"Packet shaping" technology has been implemented for newsgroup applications, regardless of the provider, and all peer-to-peer networks and certain other high bandwidth applications not necessarily limited to audio, video, and voice over IP telephony. Road Runner reserves the right to implement network management tools for other applications in the future.
Now dont forget folks you are
just customers and nothing more, if Time Warner need extra bandwidth to offer new video bandwidth hogging services and yours is the only capacity they have spare then you best just shut up and allow it like Virgin Media's customers are doing
This general trend of offering a service and then introducing some form of limiting/throttling when the majority of the users need it only seems to hilight the urgent need for ISP reinvestment before they start losing disgruntled existing customers, although I,m sure once this news is more widespread they may find they have been a tad too slow in resolving this basic problem that their business should address urgently.
