IS throttling too much?

[Spark]

I have a 384k express "uncapped" line with Openweb. I have been very naughty again this month and have gone over my 5GB / 10 days threshold limit, so I am being throttled until my detention is over and I get my next 5GB unthrottled in a few days time.

Now on previous months when I was throttled I could still download at 196kbps. This month and towards the end of last month I am lucky to get 130kbps. Am I the only one noticing more throttling than previous months? This is not just during peak hours but at night as well. At this rate I am about twice as fast as my old 56k dial up.

 

[Shank]

I have a 384k express "uncapped" line with Openweb. I have been very naughty again this month and have gone over my 5GB / 10 days threshold limit, so I am being throttled until my detention is over and I get my next 5GB unthrottled in a few days time.

Now on previous months when I was throttled I could still download at 196kbps. This month and towards the end of last month I am lucky to get 130kbps. Am I the only one noticing more throttling than previous months? This is not just during peak hours but at night as well. At this rate I am about twice as fast as my old 56k dial up.

Dam man where have you been hiding!!!!

 

[Spark]

Nah I've been around, just I'm a reader not a writer.
Played any good single player games lately? I started on Bioshock but lost interest..

 

[fz1]

Spark, just out of interest, what is your line speed?

I no longer have my IS Uncapped Express account, but I noticed something pretty interesting with it during the last few days I had it.

I initially had a 384kbps line and a 512k Uncapped Express account. I did about 60GB with it in the month that I had it. I found the throttling to be quite erratic and not well enforced (but that is certainly not a complain ) I'd say about 80% of the time, I was getting line speed, although I should clearly have been thresholded.

It got more interesting than that though: my P2P during the day (business hours) would be crawling (think ISDN64kbps speeds). I upgraded to a 4M DSL line with 5 days left on my Uncapped Express account. My speeds shot through the roof. Though I wouldn't average it, surfing web sites resulted in bursts of over 120kB/sec. P2P, even during the day, would EXCEED an AVERAGE of 150kB/sec!!! If I recall correctly, I ended up doing about 20GB in those 5 days (talk about milking it )

Anyway, I've since moved to SAIX accounts (so no more "all I can leech") for more consistent speed and lower latencies. I'm hoping that the talk of the IS accounts not linked to a line speed / throttling turns out to be true and is implemented soon. I'll be first in line for that...

 

[Spark]

Spark, just out of interest, what is your line speed?

I no longer have my IS Uncapped Express account, but I noticed something pretty interesting with it during the last few days I had it.

I initially had a 384kbps line and a 512k Uncapped Express account. I did about 60GB with it in the month that I had it. I found the throttling to be quite erratic and not well enforced (but that is certainly not a complain ) I'd say about 80% of the time, I was getting line speed, although I should clearly have been thresholded.

It got more interesting than that though: my P2P during the day (business hours) would be crawling (think ISDN64kbps speeds). I upgraded to a 4M DSL line with 5 days left on my Uncapped Express account. My speeds shot through the roof. Though I wouldn't average it, surfing web sites resulted in bursts of over 120kB/sec. P2P, even during the day, would EXCEED an AVERAGE of 150kB/sec!!! If I recall correctly, I ended up doing about 20GB in those 5 days (talk about milking it )

Anyway, I've since moved to SAIX accounts (so no more "all I can leech") for more consistent speed and lower latencies. I'm hoping that the talk of the IS accounts not linked to a line speed / throttling turns out to be true and is implemented soon. I'll be first in line for that...

My line speed is 384. The way you describe your experience with your 384k line is exactly how I find mine, at least until recently when things have really begun to slow down when throttled. It's weird how the throttling is erratic, also not complaining though. The sad thing is I got my ADSL installed exactly one month before IS decided to start the threshold business, and I got just over 80GIG just on downloaded data alone. I was in heaven but that didn't last long, hehe.

Just had to add that I would be second in line for the unlinked package (100GB) as long as the price is reasonable (which I doubt).

 

[fz1]

Sounds like I cancelled my account just in time!

Off-topic, but the 100GB for, say, R1500-R1800 would be absolute bliss. Come to think of it, a non-throttled 50GB for that much would be brilliant too! Let's see what 2008 brings us!

Anyone else on an IS account notice issues similar to the OP's?

 

[Spark]

Sounds like I cancelled my account just in time!

Off-topic, but the 100GB for, say, R1500-R1800 would be absolute bliss. Come to think of it, a non-throttled 50GB for that much would be brilliant too! Let's see what 2008 brings us!

Anyone else on an IS account notice issues similar to the OP's?

Well I'm more for R/GB than anything else. Even with the throttling I have still been getting 60GB p/m just on downloaded data. The current R999p/m works out better for me than R1500 say , as I don't want to be spending more for stuff I don't really NEED to have. Of course I will probably get way less D/L this month so I'll just have to see.

 

[Gatecrasher]

If you use traffic splitting and source 80% of your downloads locally (and you can!), you can achieve 100GB for under R1000pm, at full speed with no throttling or heavy shaping, or any other impediments to enjoying the internet.

For the first 5 months of 2007, I had a 1mb/s uncapped express account on an OpenWeb special for R1199pm. It was really great and worth (relatively speaking) what I paid for it. But now I would have to pay double, and would be subjected to the new thresholding/throttling and heavy shaping.

So my "uncrapped" option may be a bit fiddly, but it is certainly cost effective. Even more so with the current TI "free local" trials.