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QoS traffic management
We apply Quality of Service traffic management on our network to provide a fair, quality service for all applications and customers. Traffic management has a bad reputation because it’s wrongly believed its sole purpose is to slow users down. The way we use it actually enhances your online experience.
Our real-time systems don’t block particular applications. Instead, they make sure your most important, time-sensitive activities get the highest priority – and we only apply it when we see contention on our network, not all the time.
We identify the type of activity and apply priorities, slowing the lowest-priority traffic first (downloads, peer-to-peer) so it doesn’t affect a user’s experience. Because we know the speed of our customers’ lines, we can tell when they’re reaching capacity and make intelligent decisions to protect their experience.
e.g. You’re on a VoIP call or video conference when someone in your office starts a large file transfer. Your time-critical voice and video calls are prioritised and run smoothly; the background transfer takes a little longer to complete.

