[Networking] HarrowingLife:
I agree, they need to announce before the next "trial" and this time get a system that can handle the amount of traffic (Even at throttled speeds). What I saw was the same as a very congested VPS Host, but not traffic wise. It looked more like the number of TCP connections alone overwhealmed the CPU, hence the huge latency. Just a theory here based on past experience with dealing with Torrent Seedboxes on VM's.

Personally, I love that Three have the Social Media Team. We can get direct communication with people based inside Three instead of a the unfortunate Out-sourced Phone Support that almost every UK Company now uses. (I do not like Out-sourced call centers because they always follow scripts and can be very hard to understand a) because they have bad telecoms and b) Language-issues)

It is a shame that sometimes they have to take a negative outlash from customers because of decissions made by higher management.

Unfortunatly, 3.5Mbps would destory 720p HD on Silverlight based streaming. This includes Netflix and Vevo which are both populare applications on Smartphones and Tablets. YouTube, iPlayer and other Buffer-based MP4 streams will be fine. We have Microsoft to thank for this.

I have a idea that I don't think anyones ever suggested before and would appreciate feedback on it. (Negative, Positive or Suggestive)

For each TCP connection, allow full speed up to 1Megabyte transfered. This would keep everything feeling snappy in regards to web page loading (Images, etc) and may fool Silverlight into thinking the connection is fast enough to use the HD stream. Then after this amount of data is transfered per TCP connection throttle it down based on local area usage. So in busy area's, down to the 3.5Mbps/1Mbps and areas that are not currently experiencing heavy load of any sort no throttle at all. I'm suggesting what could be described as a true Smart-Throttle system that analyizes every part of Threes network including the radio spectrum available in a area.

This would slow down most downloads in the busy area's while still maintaining enough speed for Streaming and at the same time, even when throttled web browsing will be fast. However this alone would not be enough when you consider P2P.

So on top of this, a basic analysis of each user's number of TCP connections should make the throttle more severe (I.e. 200 TCP Connections indentified as Torrents = 56Kbps per connection to totale close to 1Mbps for the Torrent Client) I know Packet Inspection is possible these days to indentify Torrent Connections (And also possible for Torrent Clients to hide) - Legit uses of Torrents like Blizzards Downloader for World of Warcraft, Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 all use HTTP at the same time so would not suffer from this. Although of course this only applies to mobile broadband.

Alot more than that could be done with further discussion but does a solution exist that can pull this off exactly as I've just discussed? Some of the idea is already done today on other networks so a Hardware Solution to do it could be developed? (I also think VPN connections should be throttled after so much usage as it would be likely the user is using it to avoid Torrent Throttles if done. And a white-list system of IP's for example corporate VPN's, SIP servers, etc?)

I am hoping Three get the full investment support to buy the entire amount of Spectrum provided by the Digital Switchover. Three are the only network without low frequency spectrum, which is devestating in certain enviroments (My local Tesco's for example has zero Three signal inside, but every other network just switches to 2G) They sure deserve the funding in my opinion and really have started to establish them selfs as a example to the rest of the industry in the UK.

T-Mobile/Orange and o2/Vodaphone are far behind Three in every regard! The only exception to this is Giffgaff who match Three PAYG for value for money however I also understand that they not only run off the o2 network but are actually owned by them as well. (Their way of appealing to those who will only go for good value for money services while still ripping nieve people off on general o2 PAYG/Contracts?)

In Australia I understand a full Monopoly exists on Mobile and Fixed Line services resulting in only one extreamly poor provider. I'm confident that Ofcom will never risk allowing this much pairing up. Instead I believe the recent pairing ups are all about the 4G service and making it a truely ground breaking service (In regards to availabe capacity in every area on the spectrum and for general signal)

I do truely wish that each network would enable other networks to Roam Nationally as well. With current coverage in the UK this would result in few occasions when 1 customer would actually Roam onto another network but generall would probably get us at 99% UK coverage no matter what network you are on.

Either way, the Future is Bright now that Orange will no longer exist :D (Everything Everywhere will be the new name once they fully merge)

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Can I have a link to get one :)