| Primus Traffic Shaping :: For Better or for Worse !!! Saw today in “Monitor Today” and “Digital Home” that my provider has started DPI. So far all the hype has indicated that ISPs have throttled traffic of their choice instead of actually using good judgement to improve the internet experience of the subscriber. They have taken it for granted that P2P is bad and since majority is using this application beat the hxxl out of it.
»www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/3509/280/
»www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthr···t=103874
From the article it seems Primus has taken a different path, even though they have prioritized the traffic rather than throttling, they have actually applied good judgement to improve subscribers internet experience.
QoS is a preferred practice to improve network traffic experience and performance where best practice suggests that you provide priority based on the realtime / time sensitive / non-realtime nature of the traffic. You implement your priority as mentioned above and let the network deal with packets as it is / when faced with congestion rather than you specifically saying how much/when traffic of choice should be dropped/throttled.
Being a final year student of IT & Networking, I know for sure that this is practiced and taught and implemented in any enterprise / corporate / network environment. In a way I am surprised and kind of happy that Primus has taken this route other than its adversaries. Also to note I am using Primus DSL for the last 3 years.
The first year’s DSL experience was not so good but it must be mentioned since sign-up I have enjoyed following
- no speed limit
- no monthly BW usage Quota :: My monthly usage as per my tracking is over 300GB. Never got capped.
- multiple sign-in with the same account
- 1Km from Ottawa CO, modem sync 16M/900K. Speed test varies based on time of day.
Now, with my skepticism and with hope that my provider will not lie I have put the service (their newDPI) to test an hour back, since from my past experience I have seen speed degradation around this time. TS has made me aware in the past that Primus has some sort of network congestion in Ottawa, must say it has improved by leaps and bounds in the last 2 years.
I am avid user of P2P for both leech and seed. I started multiple P2P and NNTP downloads reaching upto 8Mbps. At this point usually I have seen that video streaming / browsing would be slow compared to my P2P/NNTP downloads. Today I was very thrilled to see that my video/audio streaming and web was working as if there was no other download happening. I saw that my P2P and NNTP gradually slowed down as I requested more of audio/video/web. To a network geek like me its QoS in real life. The moment I closed my whole Firefox/Chrome browser containing web/video/audio (tabbed) the P2P/NNTP jumped back to full 8Mbps.
What sort of intent Primus has, to serve its monetary purpose I do not care, I paid for internet connection with highspeed to experience the internet better than dial-up and my trial today just demonstrated that. I hope they stay true to their words. |
