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Anyone else picked up the international throttle change from 500K to 1.6MB?

256 Package

International test (http://performance.toast.net)
Loaded 1,396,595 bytes in 53.157 seconds from 1&1 server.
Your throughput: 210* K


Sentech Speed Test 512K
Your download speed is: 26.82 KBps, or 214.55 Kbps
The test took 19.949 seconds to complete

Sentech Speed Test 2MB
Your download speed is: 26.79 KBps, or 214.28 Kbps
The test took 78.102 seconds to complete
 
Anyone know of a download manager that lets you specify the max size of a segment to lets say, oh, 1.6mb? :)

I'm being serious... any suggestions?
 
There was another topic which covered this. There wasnt a good solution as far as I can remember. Using a typical download manager you could always stop / restart the download every 1.6MB's ;) works wonders if the file is around 3 - 5MB

If anyone has a workaround for this, pls post
 
The "international throttle" bears no relation to the file or download size.
It's activated after a certain number of seconds.
Confirmed this with a Sentech engineer two weeks ago.
(It was then set at about 20 something seconds)

The much talked about Sentech MW expansion roll-out is rumoured
to be starting in April... this as they will be receiving the
first of their new billion Rand funding in early April. Hopefully they will
be using some of these funds to relax this "international throttle" :)
 
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odd, because even earlier this week when I was downloading at 14K/sec it still capped at around 500K. Before that I was downloading in half the time at 26 - 28K/sec and it was 500K. My speed tests yesterday show results which are definitely not working on seconds.

International test (http://performance.toast.net)
Loaded 1,396,595 bytes in 53.157 seconds from 1&1 server.
Your throughput: 210* K

Another test today shows the same
Loaded 1,396,595 bytes in 50.562 seconds from Lunar Pages server.
Your throughput: 221* K

Perhaps they've finally pulled finger and are starting to compete with iburst or they've changed their time to what ever 1600K takes. However, as the downloads are bursting between 10 - 40K, if more than 1 person is getting 1600K and then a cap, I doubt its working on seconds
 
Maybe.... I can only repeat what I was told.
But then you Capetonians have no idea about time anyway :)
 
Sentech has been given a 2nd life.In this forum,it is done to encourage improvements on performance & customer care.

It seems they got the message.
 
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hmmm, there goes both theories.

Downloading Azureus (+- 5.2MB) using NetTransport. I've set the download limit to 10K/sec. I've already downloaded 3.4MB (5min 40sec) and still no cap. But its bursting from 4K-40K.

downloading the same file without a speed limit isnt throttled either but bursting from under 4K - 34K with an average of around 14K/sec. We'll be able to tell once rpm gets his new set of tests going
 
Dbnnet, any *inside* info on whether the 20sec burst has been increased to around 60 secs ? I've checked a number of d/l tonight, including my *test* wget and there's definitely a change. Previously the throttle use to kick in (for me) between 200k and 300k(20 * 10k-16k), now its between 650-900 (60 * 10k-16k). That would also explain the 1.6MB the 256'ers experienced
 
The int cap now seems only come in after >3 MB

I usually do not download any movies,(only for testing speed)

But this is encouraging ;)
 
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coz the same thing happend to my friend he got capped when he downloaded nothing
 
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