Sky Broadband has admitted and apologized for an error with their system that has been blocking UK users from accessing the PlayStation Network for the seven hour period of 5pm to midnight.
The Sky system classified "PSN as a traffic-heavy application, and therefore sought to prevent or block connections to it during peak hours."
"Our network management system mistakenly classified ... [ read the full article ]
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Quote:Facing tougher questions, Sky noted that traffic management is only used on P2P applications.
If they only manage P2P then how in the world did the PS3 traffic get managed?
Someone is not telling the whole truth here.
And oh, by the way, this is exactly what everyone was talking about when this kind of throttling was being proposed. That the way the net is used nowdays, Movie Streaming, Gaming, ect... that throttling is going to hit everyone, hard.
I'd call this a taste of what is to come in the future of the Bandwidth wars!
why would Sky want ppl on their isp network switching to web streaming video as current trends are showing, when they make all that lovely money from selling sky television subscriptions?
