Of course QoS is important to the customer. I am one myself. I like getting what I pay for. I understand Internet traffic costs money and I am [willingly] paying for it. So when UPC decided to cut all bandwidth between 12:00 and 00:00 by 2/3 to ensure the QoS for all customers would be able to enjoy Internet access at expected speeds, I was a little worried.
Well, my browsing the Internet experience has not changed too much.
But what did change a lot was my usenet experience. Is : Download speed: 638.85 KB/s Was: [Avg-Speed]: 1895kB/s. That is drastic but expected, right? WRONG.
UPC is not just throttling Internet access, it throttles ALL traffic.
My traceroute [v0.75]
macbookpro-meij-net.local (0.0.0.0) Mon Aug 24 22:59:35 2009
Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit
Packets Pings
Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. 10.0.1.1 0.0% 455 1.2 1.3 0.7 14.7 1.5
2. 10.15.158.129 0.0% 455 4.4 8.4 2.6 34.3 4.1
3. p21161.net.upc.nl 0.0% 455 6.7 10.6 4.2 57.0 7.0
4. 84.116.131.21 0.0% 455 5.7 13.9 4.6 78.4 12.6
5. 10ge-upc.xmr16-1.ams5.as5580.net 0.0% 454 12.2 14.0 5.0 47.6 6.0
6. ???
My usenet traffic never hits 'the Internet', it goes straight out to XSNews. XSNews is my current [and good!] usenet provider. I hope they will resolve this issue with UPC.
