Here's a challenge to ISP's!

[Hellboy]

I know that our ISP's have trolls here that glance over our ranting but here is a challenge I'd like to put out to you guys.

I have a few ADSL accounts mostly on the IS network they are;

Axxess-Lite -IS
Axxess Prepaid -IS
Afrihost Uncapped -IS
Web Africa Prepaid. - SAIX

For the love of sanity please stop shaping gaming ports and gaming services! Yes I have a 4096MB ADSL line and I use it for gaming certainly defined by the OECD as a multimedia application or entertainment that uses broadband. Now I have to admit SA is not an OECD member at all hence the reason South African ISP's do as they like. But please explain to me why on all these accounts my P2P is always working at optimum rate of 412KB/s? I don't care about file sharing in any "shape" or form, block the ports completely for all I care. But when I've had a long day and want to relax a bit by playing the online games I like the shaping of these ports always ends in frustration. Steam is shaped to hell and back. I legally own all the content by the way. I did not pirate off some dodgy Russian server but if I had, it would have probably been at full speed and working perfectly.

Give the people what they want not what you think they need. E-mail, web surfing, and Facebook IS NOT broadband! File sharing is in any case being used 95% of the time for downloading illegal and pirated content. Open the gaming ports and services and allow people to use their broadband connections what they were intended for ENTERTAINMENT!

 

[hambone]

Surely its quite difficult to isolate what port every game uses in the universe? I mean, I could bit torrent on the same port... would ISP packet sniffers know the difference?

 

[synapseZA]

Web Africa Prepaid. -IS

WA Prepaid is not using IS. They have their own network and uses SAT3 for the international connection.

 

[Hellboy]

WA Prepaid is not using IS. They have their own network and uses SAT3 for the international connection.

Yes apology for that. I'll fix it...

 

[Hellboy]

Surely its quite difficult to isolate what port every game uses in the universe? I mean, I could bit torrent on the same port... would ISP packet sniffers know the difference?

Might as well then tunnel your torrents through port 80 or 8080

 

[RogueRunner]

I mean, I could bit torrent on the same port... would ISP packet sniffers know the difference?

Yip, they use L7 shapers so no matter which port you tell it to use the shaper still sees it as torrent traffic.

 

[Hellboy]

My point is that the torrents work beautifully, which I don't need, but the games don't.... and yes they should be able to see the difference in the type of traffic on their networks.