Capping on torrent/p2p - Yes or No !?

[mrbob]

Quote :

<b>however I
would like to advise that when it comes to p2p software we
do not provide any guarantees on throughput as there are
too many factors outside of our control.</b>


Before loading up a torrent file or DC++ my speeds were doing quite well (5Kb/s - for those of you with them fancy dial-up connections that may not seem very fast... but for those of us on the Sentech 4k package (also referred to as the 128 k with contention) that's ****ing lightning.
Anyways, so seeing as I had these good speeds I thought I'd open up a torrent file, BOOM all traffic dies.. my average of 5Kb/s drops to 0.344Kb/s , I ping off MSN , local site freezes halfway through loading... and the torrent is showing an average download speed of 0Kb/s (unfortunately my bittorrent client was not designed with "Broadband" in mind so it doesn't show 0.x Kb/s). This happens EVERY time I open a torrent file and EVERY time I open DC++ (p2p). Now surely this MUST mean that these are being capped? That as soon as connections are made to these ports or whatever, Sentech puts some kind of block on everything coming through to me... or am I wrong? I know that what the helpdesk is saying about it being out of their control is complete bull**** because some users on Sentech I know are getting decent download torrent speeds downloading the exact same torrent as me , and they can still browse and use MSN etc.

If someone could please explain in bandwidth allocation software/hardware/data transfer talk exactly why Sentech must be choking my bandwidth for this to be occuring please post it here, I would like to mail the helpdesk and tell them that they ARE choking me and that this why .. etc etc.. so that they can't make up any crap excuses.

Thanks

 

[aborg]

For me its not only p2p but all intl traffic on http and ftp as well that is non-existent. If somehow you can peer within SA it might be different. Most p2p depends on intl peers and seeds which depends on intl <b>BANDWIDTH</b> which is <b>NON-EXISTENT</b>, so that could be a reason.
I had 24 KB/s plus before the fiddling happened.

 

[Wireless2]

Same here Everything is Capped to 2Kb/s

 

[arf9999]

Mrbob,

Have you tried changing your port settings? Set your BT client to use port 80 or 8080. AFAIK: In theory, unless they are inspecting packets, this should be seen as http traffic.

I don't have the same problem, *at the moment* I can browse at dial up speed (locally), run a multi-thread download at 3K using getright, and have Bearshare (Gnutella) downloading at 4-5K in the background. But the bandwidth is all over spiking from 0 to 115kbps from one second to the next.

So all in all I've probably got about 60% of my package at present (my usual 10% plus the 50% that the 256k subscribers have donated .....*duck*)

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[CrazyMadMan]

2k hardcap on everything for me

Fantasy is what people want, reality is what they need.

 

[Nightwatch]

I thought everything was about a 2k cap for me on everythign too, then I lazily ran Windows Update on one of the machines and the speed was close to real! Cacheing?

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[IzZzy]

torrent is non existent for me........although upload is fine

 

[aborg]

I have a feeling most intl will stay capped until 1 sept - then suddenly we will be able to dl at 5 KB/s and sentech will say how good these improvements were.

Cautiously waiting for this new bandwidth provider - thought sentech had more than 4Gb of bandwidth over satellite.

 

[bHOLDher]

This problem seems WAAAY too random to have any "intelligence" behind it. I used to be fine, then for 3 weeks it was hopeless, gave up on P2P, then on Saturday I realized there is no problem any more, and it seems as if it is now useless since a little earlier this evening.

Random bandwidth management. Nothing on purpose. Unless their bandwidth management does have "pools" of which some are empty? OR, they implemented some kind of cap... Blah blah.. useless trying to speculate.