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Wikkels88

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Anyone else find that lately P2P downloads (Yes Im trying to torrent Game of Thrones, I'm a thief I know) get shaped like 90% of the time, its almost 8:30pm and my download is only running at 10-20KB/s... I thought they were only shaped during office hours?
 

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Anyone else find that lately P2P downloads (Yes Im trying to torrent Game of Thrones, I'm a thief I know) get shaped like 90% of the time, its almost 8:30pm and my download is only running at 10-20KB/s... I thought they were only shaped during office hours?

See my posts here :

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...er-Q-amp-A?p=15180264&viewfull=1#post15180264

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...er-Q-amp-A?p=15181586&viewfull=1#post15181586

Welcome to my world, R1499 to get 10kb/sec at 8:30pm on P2P (The best part? My downloads are HTTPS from my seedbox..)
 

Wikkels88

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See my posts here :

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...er-Q-amp-A?p=15180264&viewfull=1#post15180264

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...er-Q-amp-A?p=15181586&viewfull=1#post15181586

Welcome to my world, R1499 to get 10kb/sec at 8:30pm on P2P (The best part? My downloads are HTTPS from my seedbox..)

Meh managed to only download like 2gb through the night, it would appear that p2p downloads now permanently get shaped, and the speeds only slightly get raised between 12am and 6 am... This is BS:mad: I got the the connection for gaming, in the beginning I was not a heavy user at all, because my link actually worked for the purpose that I got it for, then began my packet loss issues, and gaming was out the door, so i figured, "ah well I'll use the link for downloads then" (and I do admit I've been hammering the downloads after hours, because I've got to get my money's worth somehow:D), it would appear its becoming progressively more useless for downloads as well...

Bitco do tell me, what exactly can I use my link for?
 
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I had issues with my connection at around 21:00 while playing Rust. I gave up eventually around 21:30. I have never had this before in Rust so I suspect it might have been something once off. Seems to have been fine again this morning. (Not complaining yet :p). My problem seems to be throughput though. Maybe the damn kids was streaming crap again on all their devices not sure. Will try and pin point it tonight if it happens again.
 

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Anyone else find that lately P2P downloads (Yes Im trying to torrent Game of Thrones, I'm a thief I know) get shaped like 90% of the time, its almost 8:30pm and my download is only running at 10-20KB/s... I thought they were only shaped during office hours?

Hi Wikkels88,

We have not had any issues or changes to the torrent shaping protocals

I will ask the technical team to test tonight after 6pm and shall revert back with some feedback

Mike
 

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Wikkels88

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Hi Wikkels88,

We have not had any issues or changes to the torrent shaping protocals

I will ask the technical team to test tonight after 6pm and shall revert back with some feedback

Mike

Yay Bitco Rep is still alive, thanks for the response! Awaiting feedback
 

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can i stand in the queue to receive the above after the technicians fixed the issue? :p :p

LOL, We gonna have them all connected and order each game as it comes out to ensure its fully optomised on our network

.....I might borrow the Xbox one on Weekends :)

Mike
 

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LOL, We gonna have them all connected and order each game as it comes out to ensure its fully optomised on our network

.....I might borrow the Xbox one on Weekends :)

Mike

Pfft, weakling...

Take the PS4 :p
 

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Could you possibly answer more questions? Not just the last two. (Three , including mine)
Starting from 10, possibly 20 pages back or so. Thanks.
 

Gezza

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There are some very serious issues in this thread that simply do not get answered.
 

disiza

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T-minus 3 Days.........and the consoles are still in there boxes!!!
 
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BlackJack1301

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Hmmm... not hearing a lot of good things about Bitco in this thread and it is a bit of a worry...

So is P2P as useless all the time for everyone? I don't mind only being able to download after hours, but having to sign a contract and pay a lot of money for a service that will be mostly useless does not sound good to me.

What happened to full speed of everything and then if abused you get throttled for a bit?
 
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