Sign up with GoogleQuick background - I signed up for Mywireless about a month ago, had acceptable speeds for 2 weeks and then dropped into the sub 2K bracket, with some nights so bad that I can't even browse web pages. 12% Signal, Tower 12 ( Mintech ), 256K package. There, that's done 
Anyway. I was doing some testing last night and I hope someone else can duplicate this for me.
1. I load a file into flashget and start downloading. I picked a 120MB demo from games.mweb.co.za, so it is local and coming down through ftp.
2. Using Netlimiter ( and Flashget's own speed indicator ), I watched my download speed. Average speed was about 25kb /s, peaking at 30 and dropping to 23 every now and then. Quite good!
3. I left this running for 5 minutes to make sure it was stable. It was.
4. I open up Bittorrent and load a popular torrent ( 30 seeds, 350 peers )
5. After connecting to everything Bittorrent starts downloading at 1Kb/s, uploading at 3kb/s
6. The instant the first Torrent byte comes down, Flashget falls to 3Kb/s
7. My overall download speed is now 4Kb/s ( upload is 3kb )
8. I leave it 5 minutes to see if anything changes, it does not.
9. I hit pause in my Bittorent client ( I am using Bittornado, so I can pause ).
10. Flashget starts climbing and 2 minutes later is it downloading at 30kb/s again.
A fluke? Maybe. But I was sitting there for half an hour pausing and unpausing Bittorent and watching my download speeds jump up and down the scales. I had similar results with Kazaa and Shareaza. So it looks to me that as soon as P2P traffic is detected on my connection, my ENTIRE bandwidth allocation gets throttled down to 4Kb, not just the offending traffic.
There does seem to be a way around this. Shareaza 2.0 and the latest Bittornado both have an option called "randomize ports". This assigns a port at random to each connection, instead of using the predefined ports. It took me a while to get Shareaza to just connect to torrents and not to Gnutella or Edonkey ( which throttles everything down again as soon as it connects ), but once I got it working I loaded up my torrent and 2 minutes later I was watching it download at 16kb/s! I started my Flashget download again and quickly maxed my connection at 32kb/s.
I went to bed and this morning I had downloaded about 500MB, with the torrent still chugging away at 10kb/s. A huge improvement over the 1kb/s I was getting before!
Anyone else want to try this?
Anyway. I was doing some testing last night and I hope someone else can duplicate this for me.
1. I load a file into flashget and start downloading. I picked a 120MB demo from games.mweb.co.za, so it is local and coming down through ftp.
2. Using Netlimiter ( and Flashget's own speed indicator ), I watched my download speed. Average speed was about 25kb /s, peaking at 30 and dropping to 23 every now and then. Quite good!
3. I left this running for 5 minutes to make sure it was stable. It was.
4. I open up Bittorrent and load a popular torrent ( 30 seeds, 350 peers )
5. After connecting to everything Bittorrent starts downloading at 1Kb/s, uploading at 3kb/s
6. The instant the first Torrent byte comes down, Flashget falls to 3Kb/s
7. My overall download speed is now 4Kb/s ( upload is 3kb )
8. I leave it 5 minutes to see if anything changes, it does not.
9. I hit pause in my Bittorent client ( I am using Bittornado, so I can pause ).
10. Flashget starts climbing and 2 minutes later is it downloading at 30kb/s again.
A fluke? Maybe. But I was sitting there for half an hour pausing and unpausing Bittorent and watching my download speeds jump up and down the scales. I had similar results with Kazaa and Shareaza. So it looks to me that as soon as P2P traffic is detected on my connection, my ENTIRE bandwidth allocation gets throttled down to 4Kb, not just the offending traffic.
There does seem to be a way around this. Shareaza 2.0 and the latest Bittornado both have an option called "randomize ports". This assigns a port at random to each connection, instead of using the predefined ports. It took me a while to get Shareaza to just connect to torrents and not to Gnutella or Edonkey ( which throttles everything down again as soon as it connects ), but once I got it working I loaded up my torrent and 2 minutes later I was watching it download at 16kb/s! I started my Flashget download again and quickly maxed my connection at 32kb/s.
I went to bed and this morning I had downloaded about 500MB, with the torrent still chugging away at 10kb/s. A huge improvement over the 1kb/s I was getting before!
Anyone else want to try this?
