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Has anyone else noticed that downloads are now upload-sensitive?

Previously I was able to get 15KB/sec while uploading at 5 or 25KB/sec (I have 128kbps or MyUseless Basic or whatever its called) i.e. upload didnt matter.

Now, if I upload over 5KB/sec, then downloads drop immediately to below 8KB/sec. It is an instant effect. Previously I couldnt care what the upload rate was, now I need to be careful. The effect is that if I am sending a large email then my browsing goes down the toilet.

Keep in mind all of the above is local. Of course international is pretty much capped if I upload anything of any form.
 
Thought that's the way it's suppose to work. Like a modem, can't d/l at 5K while u/l at 5K, only have 56k available. Maybe ST had you as a 256K user all this time :D How's the Sunnyside tower BTW ?
 
MyWireloss is supposedly full duplex @128kbps in both directions.

Sentech seem to be changing their BW mismanagement system constantly in order to confuse their subscribers and the ASA.

Jeff, are you still capped on Int downloads after 500K or have they modified it to a new system?

-A
 
Luke7777 said:
Thought that's the way it's suppose to work. Like a modem, can't d/l at 5K while u/l at 5K, only have 56k available. Maybe ST had you as a 256K user all this time :D How's the Sunnyside tower BTW ?
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The point of broadband is the FACT that it can upload and download without one effecting the other unlike, as you pointed out, normal analogue modems.

I spoke to Clinton Smith on Friday and he confirmed Sentech changing their network "once again"
 
noone said:
...can upload and download without one effecting the other...
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Yes, but TCP over IP requires ACK packets to be transmitted on upload to confirm packets received on download, so a lack of upload speed/capability will drastically affect download speed due to download packet transmissions. The same applies when you are uploading instead of downloading - all that happens is the sending & receiving hosts are swapped. However that is all academic & when it comes to Sentech who knows what they are up to? - does Sentech itself know what it is up to? :rolleyes:
 
I stand corrected..by no_one :D Anyway, MW128 is closer to dialup than it is to broadband, maybe that's why they've "changed" it :D Maybe I just never noticed the uploads not affecting the d/l
 
Well the Sentech sunnyside tower has been OK I guess (except for 10 mins ago..) pretty constant over the last months. Im waiting for ADSL now so it doesnt really bother me if its down at the moment.

I dont actually watch the international too much. Given up on downloading stuff except for the occasional file. I have pretty much accepted it as "capped" and just use it for browsing for which it seems to be ok.

I have fast access at work so I can live with "functional" access at home for now..

BACK to the topic....
Why after about 1 year of the up/down being independent would it now change? What kind of change would that be? And no, I would have known if I was a 256K user.. not that I have paid a cent to Sentech thanks to their billing stuffups which I only discovered after about 8 or 9 months..

It seems their upload capacity has dwindled but that doesnt really explain the downstream suffering so significantly.
 
so i cancelled sentech a week ago and while waiting for another broadband supplier i have been using my 56k modem and had to dll some stuff for AVG and yeah... I dont miss sentech... solutionfor your problem:

cancel
 
I see ST now advertises the "basic" whatever package as 128kbps down and 64kbps up. Has anyone noticed this to be implemented? If this is implemented, then it will not take much of an upload to start killing downloads' ack packets.

Sound like an excuse to steal more bandwidth from us.
 
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