How much does your ISP shape your traffic?

Yes, it is on a 1meg line. I don't mind shaping during the day as I am at work. But I've been home the last two weeks and I tested by downloading and like I said, I never had a problem with speed.

@Rouxenator, how much do you download per month???
 
WAJeff said:
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.
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From the article:

"We conducted our own tests in the morning between 08h30 and 10h00 on a 4Mbps ADSL connection using an MWeb uncapped account, a Telkom uncapped account, and a capped WebAfrica Titan DSL account."

QED
 
besides when Seacom went down, I haven't noticed any shaping recently.......Mweb 1024kbps uncapped
 
Shaping is not the big issue slowing things down these days.

#^%@! Telkom overloading their exchanges is a major headache.

Having a 4Mb/s during work hours is absolutely useless these days and after hours it is only a little better.

Gone are the days when you got a solid 3.2Mb/s at any time, day or night. You are lucky if you get anywhere close to 2Mb/s now.



This shows you are not even getting half of what you are paying for.

(In case you are wondering, the SAIX-based account gives the same results.)
 
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drukkie said:
have you tried also adding 2 threads pointing to the mweb news servers? they running at good speeds most of the time.
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I cant download from the mweb news servers for some reason, my news reader gives error STATUS CODE 0. Therefore I'm using astraweb instead
 
WAJeff said:
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.
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Jeff, how do I check under which of those categories my account falls? I'm also using the Titan Data package from WebAfrica. I'm guessing it's the same as Home, but not sure.
 
sutekj said:
Jeff, how do I check under which of those categories my account falls? I'm also using the Titan Data package from WebAfrica. I'm guessing it's the same as Home, but not sure.
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Titan falls under Silver.
 
Shads said:
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.
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Not shaped on torrents during the day???? I'd like to know how you tested.
 
WAJeff said:
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.
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So would you say that account is not suitable for torrents - torrent speeds run 'into the ground' is quite a strong deterrent.
 
Lounger said:
So would you say that account is not suitable for torrents - torrent speeds run 'into the ground' is quite a strong deterrent.
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WA has gotten really bad lately. I'm struggling just to load gmail or view MyBB, nevermind torrents! Such a pity, they used to be good...
 
I am quite glad to see that my ISP is actually offering 'Unshaped" BW. Always get close to maximum line speed.
 
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