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So torrents are dead for me. Could only get good speeds on the day the account was activated. Everything else flies. I mostly use NNTP but I need the odd torrent for really old stuff.
 
DarkImpact said:
So torrents are dead for me. Could only get good speeds on the day the account was activated. Everything else flies. I mostly use NNTP but I need the odd torrent for really old stuff.
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How's your torrent speeds between midnight and 6am?
 
Is anyone else having issues with streaming Youtube videos? I'm having particular trouble with 720p and above and 360p and below. 480p is the only one playable. On a 4MB Uncapped line, still in the green, no issues with congestion.
 
BashX said:
My second month is almost done and i've done 150gb so far on a 1MB line.
First month I did 160gb.
Speed has been inconsistent after around 130gb (I'm guessing that's when Telkom's shaping policy kicks in) but still downloads work fine after 11pm but not at full speed (roughly around 60-75Kb).
All in all I'm very happy with TI as my ISP of choice. :)
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It's all downhill from there. I had the exact same experience in my first two months also on a 1MB account. Great overall speeds. Then the torrents become unusable from 6AM till Midnight, and when you switch over to news servers to put less strain on the network, it also works fine for about a month, then you get 1kb speeds like I am getting now. :o
 
DarkImpact said:
So torrents are dead for me. Could only get good speeds on the day the account was activated. Everything else flies. I mostly use NNTP but I need the odd torrent for really old stuff.
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torrents + Telkom Internet = taboo. Only time torrents are even remotely possible is between midnight and 6AM.
 
I don't mind torrents being shaped (personally). What pisses me off is that the BF4 preload is also shaped before midnight. On slower connections, 25GB is a lot to download if you only have 6 hours a night to work with until Friday.
 
aktor said:
I don't mind torrents being shaped (personally). What pisses me off is that the BF4 preload is also shaped before midnight. On slower connections, 25GB is a lot to download if you only have 6 hours a night to work with until Friday.
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You need to define your definition of shaping. As being totally cut off or downloading at speeds of 5 kilobytes per second on a 1MB line is NOT shaping. It is the same as being cut off. And that is what Telkom does. I remember in my second month of being with Telkom my torrent downloads speeds were cut in half. I got about 45 kilobytes per second. Now that was shaping. ;)
 
ambroseg1 said:
torrents + Telkom Internet = taboo. Only time torrents are even remotely possible is between midnight and 6AM.
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Strange - 08:30 and torrents are running at my limit of 185kB/s as usual, turn the limiter off and I get full line speed (4mbs uncapped).

... maybe it's the linux advantage :)
 
My torrents were flying after 6 this morning as well. Maybe half of Uitenhage's routers blew last night after the moerse storm.
 
ambroseg1 said:
You need to define your definition of shaping. As being totally cut off or downloading at speeds of 5 kilobytes per second on a 1MB line is NOT shaping. It is the same as being cut off. And that is what Telkom does. I remember in my second month of being with Telkom my torrent downloads speeds were cut in half. I got about 45 kilobytes per second. Now that was shaping. ;)
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BF4 downloaded at between 35kbps en 75kbps last night, which isn't terrible in principle. For a BF4 preload that was unacceptably low though :P
 
We had a couple of loud bangs, but that was about it here in Kirkwood. Saw a lot of "Ek was bang or the dog ran away" posts for PE/Despatch/Uitenhage on FB.
 
Downloaded a NVidia driver last night. 10kbps or so on a 120mb download. Painful as hell.
Is this normal shaping?
 
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