Internet Solutions plain uncapped 4096kbps

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WildPikachu

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Interesting ... as soon as I hit around 30Gb usage ... BAM, rate limited to 1Mbps

Anyone else seeing similar?
 
its like that for everyone...

it was supposed to hit at 60gb...

my speeds are crawling at 7bk/s...thats dial up !

i'm on a 4 mb line for goodness sake!
 
Which ISP are we talking about here? Are you using IS directly? If IS themselves are throttling then there's a huge can of worms opening here. If you're actually using an ISP which resells IS bandwidth, then you really should be more specific , since each reseller might have different deals with IS and may or may not throttle differently.

In short Afrihost is not Internet Solutions , even if Afrihost resells, it doesn't mean their policies are the same as IS policies.
 
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My business is a IS channel partner who wholesales to ISP's. This is the plain jane IS service they offer to channel partners that I am personally taking part in trialing out. We do not change our contention ratios or work any magic... I've heard some rumours around some *possibly* doing this.

My findings are based on testing with one username. I may try more in in the next day or two to confirm this.
 
WildPikachu said:
My business is a IS channel partner who wholesales to ISP's. This is the plain jane IS service they offer to channel partners that I am personally taking part in trialing out. We do not change our contention ratios or work any magic... I've heard some rumours around some *possibly* doing this.

My findings are based on testing with one username. I may try more in in the next day or two to confirm this.
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Ok, well then this is interesting. Since everyone is going ballistic with Afrihost's [an IS reseller] throttling policies . Afrihost officially stated they will throttle you at 60GB to 1Mbps and everyone is reporting this happening at 30GB . So everyone is assuming it's Afrihost pulling some dirty stunts, now if IS is doing this.....and this is pulling through to the downstream ISPs....evil evil stuff going on here.

Basically it might mean Afrihost's strict throttling policy might come from IS and they're merely passing this through to us........can this be?
 
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For instance, before hitting 30Gb ... youtube was pulling around 2Mbit/s sometimes hitting around 3.5Mbit/s, this was the average during about a week worth of youtube'ing.

Around 30Gb of usage using bittorrent to download free content, it reduced to maxing at 1.2Mbit/s.

No matter which protocol I now use, 1.2Mbit/s seems to be the peak in throughput on the 4096k uncapped consumer username.

DSL line is syncing at 4096kbps ... SAIX local hits around 4Mbit/s, IS fiber hits around 4Mbit/s, IS local hits around 4Mbit/s. SAIX shaped, around 3Mbps.
 
Hi Friends,

We are a Platinum IS Reseller.

I have carefully studied the AUP IS brought forward when they created these packages, and there are no mentions of such limits. So far, I have not yet had a complaint from any of our high end users regarding throttling. The accounts are shaped, not throttled, according to the AUP we agreed to when the accounts were offered to us.

Kind regards
MrBEEP
 
Well, based on my findings I can call BS right now to "no throttling".

As I said, one username. It is sitting at 53Gb usage right now, and I am only getting 1.2Mbps regardless what protocol. POP3, IMAP4, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, arbitrary port .... 1.2Mbps or below.
 
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Well, based on my findings I can call BS right now to "no throttling".

As I said, one username. It is sitting at 53Gb usage right now, and I am only getting 1.2Mbps regardless what protocol. POP3, IMAP4, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, arbitrary port .... 1.2Mbps or below.
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Well push it to 60GB and then to 90GB , if it's anything resembling Afrihost's policy, you'll get throttled further every 30GBs.
 
Well, if I have time I'll try one or two more 4Mb usernames to confirm my findings.

I've not had any end-users complain yet either ... but they were all notified that its a consumer product and to be treated as such.
 
Don't get me wrong, I"m just posting my personal findings.

I have no problem with being shaped where it appears I only get 1Mbit/s .... good enough for me for the price. I just wanted to know if anyone else had the same issue.

Hey MrBeep ... we can swap usernames if you want to compare? maybe you as a platinum partner are getting a different packaged deal than us? PM me, can be interesting.
 
I think your throttling is probably unrelated to the fact that you have exceeded 30GBytes. I have only downloaded about 15G this month, its 23:55 and I can't get more that 20k on massively seeded torrents, and this on a 4M line. I am using a pure IS account (not an ISP that resells) and during the day P2P stuff never exceeds 8k.

My overall experience is that HTTP, POP3 is good all day, FTP intermittent, NNTP very bad during the day and P2P very bad all the time. All in all I would say that if you want to do anything more than straight forward browsing and mail you should look elsewhere, which would make the idea of purchasing an uncapped account somewhat unusual, unless you possibly purchased an account with a seedbox company, but the good ones (should I say reputable ones) are usually charged out in Dollar's/Euro's and once you combine that charge with what you are paying the ISP, well I am not so sure its a big saving on the larger capped (semi-shaped) accounts.

One of my companies actually re-sells IS connections, in a small way as part of a total web solution as we are in the business of writing desktop software solutions integrating to online databases which in turn drive websites. In light of the performance in certain areas we feel it important to tell prospective clients that the IS uncapped option does not make any real sense if they have a significant non HTTP/POP3/SMTP component to their normal daily business. I suspect all resellers should do the same, but reading through the forums its pretty clear they do not and in their defence most resellers are not really given too much information from the companies they represent, we certainly are not.

Interestingly as I have been typing this reply, we have moved past 24:00 and I see that the same torrent that was running ar 15k-20k has just been "bumped" to 300k-350k, almost exactly at the stroke of midnight. So there you go, these accounts are great for general browsing/mail, but if you want to do a lot of downloading but either schedule them to start at midnight or change your sleep patterns!
 
I am currently downloading with a download manager from nvidia.com graphics card drivers.. getting 93.9kb per second on a 4Mbps line. IS Uncapped.
 
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