How does it work?

[Elax]

Hi,

Can someone tell me if port prioritisation is done by raising priority on a select few ports, and leaving the rest normal, or are "unimportant" ports lowered, or both?

 

[savage]

either way...

 

[ASnogarD]

Don't have any actual facts to prove how the port prioritisation is implemented but by my personal experience I have found out :

HTTP/FTP/SMTP have higher priority than any other ports and P2P ports have the absolute lowest priority...the rest sit in between. This means basically during office hours you should get relativly decent browsing and e-mail (incl FTP and HTTP frile transfers) but nothing else, after hours online gaming (local at least) becomes usuable (possibly other applications like audio and video streaming local - never tried the int. ) and from about midnight till about 7 am P2P applications will yield some results.

Of course when you are capped then only localised internet uses are viable, international speed just barely allows a WON ID authentication.

 

[paf]

ASnogarD description is in line with my experience. I think they have QoS rules set-up.
If the prioritsed ports aren't too busy you'll get reasonable speeds on low priority ones. That's why on Kazaa I get anything from 0.01kb/s to >25KB/s speeds on single downloads and up to 56kb/s overall. For some reason or other I never go above 56KB/S on multiple downloads.