How much does your ISP shape your traffic?

Interesting, TBH my ISP, i wont mention names doesn't shape me :) Dont wanna kill the joy though! haha
 
on a 4mb uncapped line I get shaped:

around 1mb during office hours
around 2mb after work hours
full line speed after about 11pm.
 
very little surprised here:
Your ISP appears to rate limit your FlashVideo downloads. In our tests, downloads using control flows achieved up to 1250 Kbps while downloads using FlashVideo achieved up to 2764 Kbps.
 
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We need more of these articles looking and trying to quantify the effect of shaping on the SA ISP market. It's one of those open secrets. Everybody knows their ISP does it, but to what degree is a guess.

I'm on OpenWeb 4Mbps Gold Uncapped, which I changed to from MWEB uncapped. MWEB was so unusable at times due to P2P that I simply had to jump ship to another ISP (e.g., could barely watch streaming videos, Gmail would timeout incessantly). Then with OpenWeb it turned out that we had somewhat similar issues, even though the account had a lower contention ratio. Well, turns out, if we had downloads running on P2P during "office hours", it would affect the line speed quality not just during those times but for most of the times, hence reducing the internet experience entirely. Since then and after a lot of experimentation (since tech support is generally useless—they're not gonna come out and say, "ja, it's because we shape your line to kingdom come, you evil P2P'er!"), we schedule uTorrent to only download from 18h00 to 08h00 the next day midweeks and full speed over weekends. And whaddya know, it has since sorted out all our issues.

Ergo, we need more transparency when it comes to who shapes how much in SA? MyBroadband should get the community involved in digging up the dirty little secret of shaping.
 
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I am actually quite happy with my mWeb uncapped 1mb line so far. Haven't seen any shaping at all. Speed stays consistent, even during the day! Very impressed.
 
on a 4mb uncapped line I get shaped:

around 1mb during office hours
around 2mb after work hours
full line speed after about 11pm.
Do not confuse shaping with throttling.
Shaping is when particular ports are throttled and others are not.
Throttling is when the total throughput is cut down to a particular cap.

And then there is congestion, which is when there is simply too much traffic on the network.
 
webafrica seems to shape torrents quite heavily, but regular http downloads run pretty close to full speed...

Our prioritisation will all depend on what account you're on. Would be interested to see which account was used for this test.
http://kb.webafrica.co.za/admin/media_store/2/Shared/bmV3cHJvZHVjdHMtc21hbGw0Lg~~.jpg

I'm taking a guess here, that the test account was run off a Home account running off a silver priority - giving p2p "Best Effort" service. If we move up to Home Pro it'll be on a Medium level and Platinum it'll be pushed up to High. These priorities are also dependent on how busy our network is at the time.
 
We had a huge problem connecting to our SQL Server (used a random port) - after many hours of support calls found that specific port we happened to choose was heavily shaped. ISP Altech Technology Concepts Business Gold package..
 
Our prioritisation will all depend on what account you're on. Would be interested to see which account was used for this test.
http://kb.webafrica.co.za/admin/media_store/2/Shared/bmV3cHJvZHVjdHMtc21hbGw0Lg~~.jpg

I'm taking a guess here, that the test account was run off a Home account running off a silver priority - giving p2p "Best Effort" service. If we move up to Home Pro it'll be on a Medium level and Platinum it'll be pushed up to High. These priorities are also dependent on how busy our network is at the time.

I'm on one of those red africa 30 GB accounts you gave out a while ago...awesome account for an awesome price by the way...
 
I've been downloading quite a bit the last two weeks (during the day) and my speed has constantly been 102 - 105 KB/s (including torrents). Guess I've just been lucky. MWeb must be doing something right.
 
I am on Mweb and they do shape heavy usage services like BitTorrent and certain HTTP file share sites (filesonic) from time to time. But I am happy with it considering the fact that I pay about R1 per gigabyte. Thanks Mweb.
 
I've been downloading quite a bit the last two weeks (during the day) and my speed has constantly been 102 - 105 KB/s (including torrents). Guess I've just been lucky. MWeb must be doing something right.

I assume that's on a 1meg account, if yes you are really lucky to achieve those speeds during the day as most people are shaped as bussiness protocols gets priority on the network.

I am on Mweb and they do shape heavy usage services like BitTorrent and certain HTTP file share sites (filesonic) from time to time. But I am happy with it considering the fact that I pay about R1 per gigabyte. Thanks Mweb.

I share your sentiments, I also succumb to shaping during the day which I dont mind at all cause I get full speed at night and weekends. Browsing however is always full speed regardless which time of day which is in my opinion a major plus. Thanks Mweb:)
 
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