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While there was definitely an impact - our charts show clearly the size of the impact, it has to be called a success. - see our report here https://www.truenet.co.nz/articles/telstraclear-unlimited-broadband-experiment-successful
The impact on individuals of a slowdown like this is real, but not universal. This was a trial and some delays were announced and expected, hence my attitude towards success. Realistically, loss of service was not apparent, our probes continued to work without consistently hitting the time-out and in fact got good speeds, even to the States, just not the 15Mb/s cable users are used to. The apparent inconsistency with respect to ToD concerns expressed last week is because for evening peak periods, we expect performance to be "Normal" and a shortage of capacity causing slow-down should not be accepted, but some slowdown during a special weekend seems OK to me.
I reviewed one test at 8pm on Saturday (when the minimum speed was recorded) and it shows that this probe had no timeouts in the critical web-page or throughput tests, only timeouts occurred during traceroutes and Jitter tests to our servers, ie the longer running tests. Timeouts were also apparent when the network was unavailable due to the volunteers usage - maybe due to the popularity of the weekend?
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