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Bittorrent doesn't work at all here since this morning! Can anybode with a UUNET connection check if their torrents are still working.
Pings (at least local) seems to be sub 50ms this morning?!??!
 
I'm on UUNet and a few things dont seem to be working - I cant even google!
 
I'm with Telscum (I know) and up to a short while ago it was absolutely rediculous. Local pings ran either upt to 400's or simply just timed out with up to 75% loss. I gave up on bittorent, but now it seems better. Something went bang somewhere by the looks of things.

Edit: mmm bittorent still non existent :mad:
 
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Changes were made this morning with regards to BitTorrent traffic and you'll notice that the network seems to be a lot healthier because of it. Unfortunately it means that BitTorrent traffic at the moment is almost nonexistant. I understand this may be frustrating for some of you, but BitTorrent was eating up a considerable chunk (maybe 50% or so) of the bandwidth which was having a negative effect on the ability for business users to use the service. Does this mean that BitTorrent does not have legitimate business use? No, it doesn't, but realistically the majority of business does not use BitTorrent, and because of the BitTorrent traffic was finding it exceedingly difficult to use the ADSL for even the most simple of internet tasks.

Hopefully UUNet will be able to improve the network so that both BitTorrent and other protocols can coexist happily together. For now though, this had to be done.
 
warichard said:
Changes were made this morning with regards to BitTorrent traffic and you'll notice that the network seems to be a lot healthier because of it. Unfortunately it means that BitTorrent traffic at the moment is almost nonexistant. I understand this may be frustrating for some of you, but BitTorrent was eating up a considerable chunk (maybe 50% or so) of the bandwidth which was having a negative effect on the ability for business users to use the service. Does this mean that BitTorrent does not have legitimate business use? No, it doesn't, but realistically the majority of business does not use BitTorrent, and because of the BitTorrent traffic was finding it exceedingly difficult to use the ADSL for even the most simple of internet tasks.

Hopefully UUNet will be able to improve the network so that both BitTorrent and other protocols can coexist happily together. For now though, this had to be done.
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Hi Warichard

Seeing that Telkom do not take part in this forum (that I know of) and calling the support desk will be too painfull, can I ask you if you know whether Telkom (ISP) has done the same on their network?
 
well google is back and speeds are great. Pings to SGS servers are also great!!
The downside is that Bittorrent does not work and eDonkey is also not working at the moment HTTP great though!
 
everything is working, BT just slower.. I thank uunet for the changes cause this shows that BT users were raping the system.

BT does work tho, just not as fast. I used to get around 50k/s, now its down to about 35k/s.

For me, still perfectly usuable
 
Well I am happy will have to see if edonkey works, I can live without Bittorrent!!
 
KillKape, unfortunately I can't speak for Telkom, however I doubt they've done anything to their network recently other than maintenance. Telkom has substantially more bandwidth available to themselves than any other ISP (they are after all the providers of the bandwidth), they do still prioritise P2P lower than other protocols, however they don't need to prioritise it the same was as other ISP's may have to, in this case such as UUNet. P2P functions well on Telkom's network, it does not on UUNet, purely for reasons of cost and bandwidth availability.
 
Clipse, what bittorrent client are you using?
 
warichard said:
KillKape, unfortunately I can't speak for Telkom, however I doubt they've done anything to their network recently other than maintenance. Telkom has substantially more bandwidth available to themselves than any other ISP (they are after all the providers of the bandwidth), they do still prioritise P2P lower than other protocols, however they don't need to prioritise it the same was as other ISP's may have to, in this case such as UUNet. P2P functions well on Telkom's network, it does not on UUNet, purely for reasons of cost and bandwidth availability.
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Got it, thanks for the reply. Think I just have a badly supported torrent.
 
warichard said:
Changes were made this morning with regards to BitTorrent traffic and you'll notice that the network seems to be a lot healthier because of it. Unfortunately it means that BitTorrent traffic at the moment is almost nonexistant.
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Prioritising Bittorrent is essential if a healthy network needs to be maintained.. what UUNET could perhaps do is open it up at night like some ISP's do overseas.. after hours free for all :)
 
Hehe, you dont need BT to get up to 60gb bw.

Anyhow I believe killing BT slowly is the right direction for uunet to go while they dont have enough bandwidth to cater for it. Remember, they dont limit poeple to 3gb to stop abuse...

They have to use another method.

This will have no impact on me, as I do not use BT to download my 60gb as I mentioned, there are many better ways than bt/edonkey ect, which dont break ISPs like BT ect does.
 
Killaboob, I'm still going to DOWNLOAD 3Gb for today on my DSL384! (12 am - 12 pm)!!! (3x30=90 Gb!!!!)

There is more than 1 way to kill a cat! And dispite the problems - WA customer support is great - always a response in a few minutes if you mail them with a question. Thanx WA Richard! You guys are doing a GREAT job!!!
 
tinuva is edonkey working someone said it wasnt?

hxx what do you download that amounts to 3 gigs a day?
 
another thing you offer uncapped adsl and you expect ppl not to abuse it, was that the thinking at uunet when they offered this?
 
1. Killadoob, what I download is none of your business!
2. I tried more than one ISP and proxy services and this is the nearest to UNCAPPED UNLIMITED ADSL you can get in RSA!
3. WA UUNET, although with minor hickups, are GREAT
4. Yea, I would've been jealous as well!!! I understand!
5. I don't want to argue with anyone about this - this is my true, subjective experience....
 
Out of interest, warichard, are you involved with them at all or what? I was just curious as to how you came by this information.
 
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