iBurst's shaping

[Turiko]

I decided to do an interesting experiment today.

I am seeding a torrent on the ADSL connection at the office, The contents of the torrent is a bunch of misc. text files and other junk of mine, totalling 99Mbytes.

At home I've got iBurst running to download the torrent.

Guess what happens. The machine at the office uploads in bursts which reach a speed of maximum 3kbyte/sec, with about a 15-30 second delay in between. So it's an on-off-on-off...... ad infinitum thing.

Oh and this is all local traffic.

iBurst can really go and shove it. This is proof enough that they are shaping peer-to-peer protocols to death, absolutely to the point where it works by a ball hair.

Screenshots and other info can be provided on request...

 

[The_Unbeliever]

You mentioned that when you use your iburps router at your work you get the full speed benefit.

What happens when you repeat the above experiment, but with the iburps router at your work?

I find that hard to believe, quite frankly. And before you lot get on your high horse and tell me I dunno what I am doing, guess what? I hauled my PC to work, including my router and plugged it in here at the office. hallelujah, torrents that are DEAD FOR WEEKS on iBurst SUDDENLY STARTED DOWNLOADING and finished within 30-50 minutes. Therefore I am canning iBurps and getting ADSL. Sick and tired of their **** and their helping themselves to my bank account.

 

[Turiko]

As per my text that you've quoted

I tried that last week, it goes full speed, and I can see the seeders of my torrents whereas when I plug in the iBurps modem, there's hardly any seeders, it seems iBurps are blocking access from certain overseas ISP's but I have yet to prove that and test it all out.

And it's not an iBurps router per-se. It's a normal off-the-shelf Linksys configured to do PPPoE.

I know you're trying to suggest it's my equipment and that I haven't a clue about what I am doing, sorry to disappoint you but I DO have a clue I know a great deal about TCP/IP, and besides we have an IDENTICAL router here at the office, I actually duplicated my setup at home, here at the office on a larger scale. I am the IT administrator here.

The problem is not with any of my equipment, it's iBurps and their shaping. I took the router home from the office to do the config and testing, torrents don't work regardless of what router I install at home on the iBurps. Read that again. It doesn't matter what computer, torrent client, or router I use, torrents don't work properly on iBurps, but magically they come to life when plugged into the ADSL at the office. So what does that tell you? Oh and before I forget, it does the same thing with my secondary iBurps modem.

My associates in Durban reported the same thing and canned iBurps for this reason. They were using smoothwall and goodness knows what else.

I just thought I'd prove it and convince myself I am making the right decision to get rid of iBurps

You mentioned that when you use your iburps router at your work you get the full speed benefit.

Get full speed whether I use my iBurps router or not, at the office. It makes no difference except prove that my router is correctly configured!

 

[The_Unbeliever]

I know you're trying to suggest it's my equipment and that I haven't a clue about what I am doing, sorry to disappoint you but I DO have a clue I know a great deal about TCP/IP, and besides we have an IDENTICAL router here at the office, I actually duplicated my setup at home, here at the office on a larger scale. I am the IT administrator here.

Wasn't suggesting that your equipment was misconfigured, just wanted to know whether you did the experiment both at your home and work.

I'm going to take it to PM - as I don't want to post sensitive/classified information here

 

[Turiko]

It doesn't matter either way. I am getting rid of iBurps finished and klaar. I took the advice of other forumites and did the deed with Telskam. Which reminds me I must phone them for an update!

 

[fishfly]

iBurst can really go and shove it. This is proof enough that they are shaping peer-to-peer protocols to death, absolutely to the point where it works by a ball hair.

but it is in their policy to SHAPE P2P to death... no real surprises there

 

[Turiko]

Absolutely, it is in their policy, it is in their latest T&C's
The point I am trying to make is we have people on this forum who are spreading lies here and then we have those who claim they're doing torrents but they won't tell me where they're VPN'ing to or what they're using to bypass the shaping.

 

[who.is.michael]

Absolutely, it is in their policy, it is in their latest T&C's
The point I am trying to make is we have people on this forum who are spreading lies here and then we have those who claim they're doing torrents but they won't tell me where they're VPN'ing to or what they're using to bypass the shaping.

Hi Turiko

Just a suggestion, don't shoot me and do trash iBurst (for the peace of mind), however most on the forum are aware that iBurst monitors the posts and make adjustments accordingly.

Suggest you PM those that report viable torrents on the iBurst network.

Seems each tower and region have unique characteristics...

 

[fishfly]

Absolutely, it is in their policy, it is in their latest T&C's
The point I am trying to make is we have people on this forum who are spreading lies here and then we have those who claim they're doing torrents but they won't tell me where they're VPN'ing to or what they're using to bypass the shaping.

ya I've also heard the stories... but never gotten the results Just stick to DDL