Shaped, Capped, Throttled

[myles]

Hi all
I'm a pre launch subscriber to iBurst. Was getting +100kbp/s before the launch on Torrents (BitComet), now 0kbp/s. Been trying the proxies but it only goes up to 3kbp/s.
Q1) What BT clients are you guys using that are getting +50kbp/s using socks/http proxies?
Q2) On the 9gb package will i get my pre lauch speeds? and once i've reached 9gb download will it go back to 0kbp/s like i'm getting now?
Q3) I've seen the terms shaping, throttling, capping, unshaped in the forums. What does each one mean?

 

[seburn]

Shaping
Making only certain protocols perform well - ie making browsing and email ect work better than P2P ect

Throttling

Reduction of speed to a set low limit after you reach your cap (64kbits/s supposively)

capping

Limiting total the amount of data you are allowed send and recieve to a set value say 3gb there after you are throttled.

unshaped

All protocols as mentioned above have equal priority and should perform the same

As for you other questions all the answers are in this forum go find em

 

[slimothy]

no, shaping means they inspect traffic at a packet level and decide what to do with the traffic other than block it, ussually it means it created an artificial bottlenekc, throttling means the same thing but they don't look at the traffic type, they do it on all traffic. capping means theygive you a limit and if you pass it X happens or Y happens, unshaped means they don't inspect packets and therefor dont take any actions based on that (shaping or throttling)

The BT client you shoudl use is azureus, and to be honest if you're uncapped you can get full speed with a proxy ie 128KB/s

You won't get your pre-launch speeds on the 9GB package just yet, they are still playing with the scale in terms of shapign 3GB users and leaving 9GB users unshaped, give them about a month

 

[ic]

One more thing to realise about WBS' iBurst shaping - it is a major reason for latency, the effect of shaping is to queue and delay the routing of packets that are being shaped, the time those packets spend in the queue waiting to be set free is added latency [over & above any other latency between end-points]...