Throttling by ISP's

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Which ISP's do not throttle your downloads during prime time of 17h00 and 22h00?
 
I Stream a IPTV package, mostly live sports and news with no or very little buffering issues outside of the prime time's mentioned. My provider claims that the buffering is due to the ISP throttling the feed during prime time.
 
Christo4 said:
How do you know what x,y and c is doing. Or like Afrihost - saying one thing but doing the opposite.
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I can't speak for other companies so my comment is purely based on what I saw on the respective FNO portals. As for Afrihost our fibre services are completely uncapped, unshaped and unthrottled. If you experience anything less than that then there is an issue that needs to be investigated to see where the problem is.
 
Jbn222 said:
I Stream a IPTV package, mostly live sports and news with no or very little buffering issues outside of the prime time's mentioned. My provider claims that the buffering is due to the ISP throttling the feed during prime time.
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So this is not as simple as it may seem, most IPTV services are streamed from international sources and servers. So any small amount of packet loss will impede your possible throughput, and with streaming this is noticed immediately.

This doesn't particularly mean your service is throttled, it could mean that the last mile to your ISP is slightly congested, and at peak times this amplifies the effects.

Which fibre provider is it?
 
I want to join comparing Bandwidth e-pens :P Anyways We don't do shaping or throttling on our network please take into consideration that all of our clients are wireless connections.
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Like PBCool mentioned last mile must be congestion issue, if you're on fiber that can be sorted out very quickly by your ISP.
 
So unshaped, congestion and unthrottled, call it what you like - my understanding and experience of this is completely different.. Now it is the last mile, tomorrow it is the "first yard", but never the ISP. When they say they need to investigate, then asked for test, etc. it is time to move on.

Sorry all ISP's, I know it's not you, the culprit is the bleddie customer. :notworthy:
 
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AfriNatic said:
I can't speak for other companies so my comment is purely based on what I saw on the respective FNO portals. As for Afrihost our fibre services are completely uncapped, unshaped and unthrottled. If you experience anything less than that then there is an issue that needs to be investigated to see where the problem is.
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Please pm directly.
 
PBCool said:
So this is not as simple as it may seem, most IPTV services are streamed from international sources and servers. So any small amount of packet loss will impede your possible throughput, and with streaming this is noticed immediately.

This doesn't particularly mean your service is throttled, it could mean that the last mile to your ISP is slightly congested, and at peak times this amplifies the effects.

Which fibre provider is it?
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VOX/VUMATEL
 
Jbn222 said:
VOX/VUMATEL
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Unfortunately then the only way to test is to change ISP, alternatively try ask someone on another ISP to test the same IPTV service.
 
PBCool said:
Unfortunately then the only way to test is to change ISP, alternatively try ask someone on another ISP to test the same IPTV service.
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Tested on LTE and it works fine during peak times.
 
Jbn222 said:
VOX/VUMATEL
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Vox always say they cannot guarantee international speed or latency, and when you raise problems with speed to a region they hit you with that and close your ticket (heard this from multiple people). I know someone is is on the same Vumatel network as me, lives probably 500m away he is with Vox and when he tries to stream to Twitch on a 200/200 line he often he has issues with lag, his single thread speeds are about 5/25 to EU where mine are 50/5 on my 50/5 line and he often complains about slow speeds so could just be them not being able to provide the required bandwidth to where ever the source is.

I have the same problem with RSAWEB, business account at work on a 50/50 line max download speed i could get from Blizzard was about 3.2mb/s where at home i was getting 6.1mb/s. They used the same line before "we cannot guarantee speeds and its a best effort".

So maybe you not being shaped/throttled but instead they offering you their best effort.
 
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CrypticZA said:
from Blizzard was about 3.2mb/s where at home i was getting 6.1mb/s.
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If this was for Warzone that's Activision's issue,their traffic routing is odd,and their CDN availability is horseshit
 
PsyWulf said:
If this was for Warzone that's Activision's issue,their traffic routing is odd,and their CDN availability is horseshit
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This was a while ago back when their network was fine and they never had any speed issues.
 
CrypticZA said:
This was a while ago back when their network was fine and they never had any speed issues.
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Alright,I know it's still an issue. Use a VPN to bypass blizzard's ridiculous CDN routing
 
So i had the same issues,So we where a few on this forum that had the issues and we tested with VPN and guess what, VPN full line speed international and VPN off 60% of line +-
 
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