MWEB uncapped shaping Remote Desktop connections ?!

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Rouxenator

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I have recently configured my network at home so that I can remote desktop to my PC at home. I know that during the day shaped services on MWEB run at 10kb/s, which I can live with. My P2P is set not to exceed an upload rate of 16kb/s which should leave plenty of room on the 512kbps upstream I have.

My problem is whenever I start P2P traffic in the day (which maxes out at 10kb/s) I struggle get a remote desktop connection to my PC. This really should not be a problem because the P2P traffic is only consuming a very small portion of my available bandwidth. Unless remote desktop is also shaped traffic?

Are they shaping remote desktop traffic?
 
These uncapped options are becoming more & more useless as people are able to do less and less with them. Funny enough the only purpose it's still fit for is for downloading - with some sort of download manager because the speeds are so crap - the very thing all ISP's are trying to curb. ??
 
evilstebunny said:
These uncapped options are becoming more & more useless as people are able to do less and less with them. Funny enough the only purpose it's still fit for is for downloading - with some sort of download manager because the speeds are so crap - the very thing all ISP's are trying to curb. ??
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I can understand that they don't want low cost uncapped accounts stuffing up their high profile client's performance - but I think they are implementing it a little too aggressive. Besides, things like remote desktop should be given a priority above everything else, its not that hard to do cause its always on port 3389.
 
My Teamviewer remote admin connection is also suffering under Mweb uncapped. Anything I can do to speed it up?
 
DUDE!@##$%% said:
doesnt remote Desktop fall under p2p?
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No.

Get a bandwidth monitor, see how much traffic your torrents are actually using (torrents have quite high overheads), see how much traffic you're using with just Remote Desktop, see how much both together are using. If it's well short of a combined 50kB/s, PM one of the Mweb reps and ask them to get someone to troubleshoot. If it's 50kB/s, well then you have your answer.
 
using Logmein to connect to home PC which is on mweb uncapped, haven't noticed any problems....
 
I do monitor the bandwidth. During the day torrents won't go beyond 10kb/s because that us the combined limit M-Web gives to shaped traffic. RDP usually takes between 1kb/s and 5 kb/s. When I do not run torrents its fine, even while downloading at 440KB/s over HTTP. When I do open torrents it consumes up the full 10kb/s available to shaped services and then the RDP stops working.
 
Fair enough - only suggestion is to contact on of the Mweb reps on the forum - they're normally quite keen on helping MyBB members toubleshoot connection problems.
 
I would not call it a problem really - its just a fact that I am learning to live with - my 440kb/s connection is shaped 44 fold to a 10kb/s connection in the day :p
 
Yeah I am seeing the same, though not RDP. If I start uTorrent my connection on other protocols drops, and if I close it it recovers. Had the same on Screamer the beginning of the year, and people suggested using a different torrent client, which helped some. I think uTorrent opens too many simultaneous connections for the shaper to manage properly.
 
Rouxenator said:
I would not call it a problem really - its just a fact that I am learning to live with - my 440kb/s connection is shaped 44 fold to a 10kb/s connection in the day :p
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I'm as pro Mweb as they come, but RDP definitely should not be falling foul of shaping. If it is, it is a problem - the question is just whether its a problem of shaping, or if it's your torrent client. I've also experienced problems with uTorrent having a disproportionate effect on my other online activities - as has been pointed out the sheer volume of connections it opens can cause issues.

Don't suppose you can push RDP to use more than 10kB/s?
 
Teamviewer/VNC is just aweful to connect via MWeb, any1 have an recommendations?
 
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