It appears that P2P will finally get the "Kick Me" sign off its back. They will now target based on bandwidth usage. "...when a subscriber uses an average of 70 percent or more of his or her provisioned upstream or downstream bandwidth over a particular 15-minute period, that user will be in an Extended High Consumption State" only if the node they share, with other subscribers, is also experiencing high consumption. Your packets then get a assigned a downgraded priority level. "Typically, a user whose traffic is in a BE state during actual congestion may find that a webpage loads sluggishly, a peer-to-peer upload takes somewhat longer to complete, or a VoIP call sounds choppy.” Servers will also be used to monitor traffic. Can we expect a bandwidth usage monitor app? Can we be notified when our packets are downgraded?
- Cory Brown