Mweb Shaping Times?

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Hello,

What time does mweb stop shaping after hours?

is it 6:00 OR 8:00?
 
If you searched the forums you would find they don't have shaping times. The less traffic on the network, the less you are shaped.
 
Rosaudio said:
If you searched the forums you would find they don't have shaping times. The less traffic on the network, the less you are shaped.
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In theory, there should be less traffic
after business hours, so less shaping
should begin then.

In practise it doesn't. Even weekends
are heavily shaped until very late.
 
mweb shape 24/7

they only lighten shaping times when the network traffic is lighter.. I have not seen full speed on any p2p download in weeks.
 
GingerBeer said:
In theory, there should be less traffic
after business hours, so less shaping
should begin then.

In practise it doesn't. Even weekends
are heavily shaped until very late.
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I'm wondering if this applies as much to MWeb's own uncapped network, or more specifically their IPC link which seems to be their bottleneck for speed at the moment. The users of their "home" uncapped products aren't restricted to business hours and probably do more heavy downloading in the evening/nights. But like you say, it stays quite heavily shaped for P2P until far later than business hours.
 
fbman said:
they only lighten shaping times when the network traffic is lighter.. I have not seen full speed on any p2p download in weeks.
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You can usually get full speed from rapidshare/megaupload/hotfile etc. after hours. Not always on each site alone, but if you use a few of them together. Torrents I haven't seen full speed for a month or two either. Maybe after their upgrades in September :/
 
MWEB shaping times have gotten messed up latelt. It used to be after 18:00 things get better and after 07:00 they get crap. Now it's always crap even at 05:30.
 
how do you explain packet routing algorithms to people who sum it all up in 1 word? Think about it.... they have some of the brightest people, more than casual observers, dedicated to optimizing traffic flow on their network? What? You did know there are thousands of others like you also using this network? People who complain about shaping are like the fat guy with a gym membership that complains the treadmill isle is a little full. Im not saying your complaining dude... im just saying.
 
bleh69 said:
how do you explain packet routing algorithms to people who sum it all up in 1 word? Think about it.... they have some of the brightest people, more than casual observers, dedicated to optimizing traffic flow on their network? What? You did know there are thousands of others like you also using this network? People who complain about shaping are like the fat guy with a gym membership that complains the treadmill isle is a little full. Im not saying your complaining dude... im just saying.
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Well, its actually my first day with this... I managed to get 6Gb and it can still download over night. I am more than happy with this service.
I get a usual consisntent download speed of eith 70kb/s or 120kb/s... the first time i downloaded something it was going at 250kb/s at about 8:00 in the morning which was pretty awsum!
Im still trying to figure out how these news groups work. Because i heard they get faster speeds?
 
I know that their shaping is supposed to be traffic related, but on quite a few occasion I have noticed that certain downloads speeds up instantly at exactly 20:00. As if a switch is flicked. And this is not even just P2P. I've seen the same happen on system update downloads.

(MWeb uncapped on 384 line)


@Pr⊕phet - how is that determined though. Is it based on content, volume, both, or other stuff? Does it ever get re-evaluated?
 
I get 40k during the day and after 11PM I get around 250K but I limit it to 125K.
After 7AM in the morning again I get 40K again. :?

Never used to be this bad when I was with them a Year ago.
 
i get 50kbs during day p2p or whatever, full speed on normal http , or full speed on few filesharing sites at the same time.

in weekends 150kps.

after 12am, i see that 500kps mark on payed news server,normall when i wake up it still runs near 500kps, then back to normal at 7.
 
After 12am I also se a big jump in speed, the new content anyways get loaded around 1/2am and by 6am the new stuff is done for the day.
 
From my personal experience (using a news server) shaping on a weekday is most strict during business hours (obviously). It seems to be relaxed slightly at 6PM, then again at 11PM and sometime after midnight for the final time until it becomes strict again the following morning. These times are pretty the norm from what I've seen on my downloads over the last several weeks.
I haven't really observed what happens over weekends, but it seems to be a bit "all over the show" then.
 
Anyone tried the move to a similarly priced or even cheaper equivalent?
 
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