Do iBurst shape downloading for GMAIL?

Getting iBurst at this stage is like getting a Ferrari... that can only speed up to 60km/h before being severely throttled by the manfacturer...

Why don't they get rid of the throttling instead? Not every Tom, Dick and Harry's going to run P2P apps, and this throttling attitude of theirs hurts legitimate businesses. After all, the customer/consumer is paying for the bandwidth... and it is the consumer's own choice on what to do with the bandwidth paid for.

Draconian measures will result in a severe loss of customer base and income.
 
Then again, those who use iBurst for legitimate reasons are enjoying improved speeds. Atleast I know other Durbanites including myself are.
 
@Fudzy... please tell me how using GMail can be classed as a non-legitimate use. Whilst I can understand they wanted to cull p2p off the network, I think they are going TOO FAR with throttling attachment downloads from GMail. A picture, taken by my digital camera? FFS man :mad: that goes against everything that stands for good internet practice, that's a form of communism if you ask me. A fscking dictatorship.

They won't get rid of the throttling. Why? Because to get them to do that, will require some sort of mass action, and how do you bring about that kind of thing against any company in SA? A hate-website perhaps? I don't know. And besides that, how many forumers here will just shut-up and take this form of crap?
 
JTech said:
@Fudzy... please tell me how using GMail can be classed as a non-legitimate use. Whilst I can understand they wanted to cull p2p off the network, I think they are going TOO FAR with throttling attachment downloads from GMail. A picture, taken by my digital camera? FFS man :mad: that goes against everything that stands for good internet practice, that's a form of communism if you ask me. A fscking dictatorship.

They won't get rid of the throttling. Why? Because to get them to do that, will require some sort of mass action, and how do you bring about that kind of thing against any company in SA? A hate-website perhaps? I don't know. And besides that, how many forumers here will just shut-up and take this form of crap?
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Agreed, GMail shouldn't be shaped but if thats the price for keeping down the network abuse then so be it.
 
Network abuse? Please define it. I paid for the bandwidth allocated to me, I can do with it as I see fit!
 
I agree with JTech. GMail allows me certain extras that I can't use iBurst's POP for, like 20MB attachments, among other things. Oh, and I don't use P2P for illegitimate reasons either (nor do I play CounterStrike ;)). And for the record, I still have quite a bit of my 3.5 GB left, despite downloading a Kubuntu ISO last week (and the updates after installing).
 
FYI, that attachment of mine, that is throttled, was 1.8 megs in size. And it was a plain JPEG direct from the camera. First piece loads at ~80kbyte/sec, then drops to 1.2kbyte/sec. The same kind of thing I see with torrents and p2p apps. F@ck iBurst!!!
 
Is there any software which would allow a graph to be generated based on the download speeds from a particular site? It will be interesting to see if there are other websites that suffer from this speed downgrade. I would think if a connection is shaped, it's shaped from the beginning not just at some random point during the download?
 
DUMeter makes a graph of your speeds while it runs, can't be exported though afaik.

You can just take a screen shot.
 
Strange as I've been busy with gmail for the past hour and it's working fine my side.:confused:
 
Michael, it looks that way but I'm having some browsing problems again with some other sites so all is not as it should be.
 
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