Very slow torrent on Mweb

irshaad said:
I switched to MWEB from Telkom on the 1st of May, and my torrent downloads went from 60-90kb/s to 0.1 - 1kb/s. Regretting taking the 3 month contract (free router deal)... :(
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Good Morning irshaad, please provide me your MWEB account details via direct message.
 
I have been experiencing extremely throttled Torrent downloading on MWEB Uncapped ADSL, say from about Monday Morning?

It is something i have noticed for a while now and seems to occur for about a week Every month although i am not sure of the frequency, i only started keeping logs now. I know they say they "Prioritize" port 80 and port 25 type traffic, but this is just dead.

Upon inquiry to MWEB Guy i get asked for my account details and my query is deleted of his thread so i cant find out if i am targeted without painting a target on my back landing me in the incompetence mill.

Note, i am set up perfectly, i did lots of research getting Torrent to run well, which it does for the most part, only about a week or so per month, it feels like they are throttling back to make up for over use of bandwidth or something like that.

And just after 01:00 it starts normalising to full speed, i average about 850 on a 1Mbps line, which is acceptable all things considered.
 
VaxPrime said:
I have been experiencing extremely throttled Torrent downloading on MWEB Uncapped ADSL, say from about Monday Morning?

It is something i have noticed for a while now and seems to occur for about a week Every month although i am not sure of the frequency, i only started keeping logs now. I know they say they "Prioritize" port 80 and port 25 type traffic, but this is just dead.

Upon inquiry to MWEB Guy i get asked for my account details and my query is deleted of his thread so i cant find out if i am targeted without painting a target on my back landing me in the incompetence mill.

Note, i am set up perfectly, i did lots of research getting Torrent to run well, which it does for the most part, only about a week or so per month, it feels like they are throttling back to make up for over use of bandwidth or something like that.

And just after 01:00 it starts normalising to full speed, i average about 850 on a 1Mbps line, which is acceptable all things considered.
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Good Morning VaxPrime, torrent speeds are not gauranteed and will fluctuate from day to day. The traffic is not given a high priority on our network, if you require the immediacy of line speed downloads please consider our unshaped accounts.
 
Supertramp said:
Hi there. I've subscribed to Mweb's uncapped 384kb/s and it got activated little under a week ago. The account that I have is not unshaped, and I know that for torrents that is not ideal, but it's all I could afford and I'm patient, I don't mind the slow speeds. So for the first couple of days my torrents download at about 20 - 40kb/s in total, slowing down during the day and speeding up by night as expected. Now yesterday all my torrents stopped downloading completely. Utorrent is connected but nothing uploads or downloads. The rest of the internet works fine.

I've read a couple of tips online and enabled protocol encryption which made the torrents run again, but only between 1 - 2kb/s. I'm not that patient. And after a while that also stopped and nothing wants to download any more. Now I want to know, is the reason for this a setting problem, is there a problem with the connection on mweb's side, or is it the throttling that interferes to the extent that I basically can't download torrents any more? Or anything else you guys could think of might be the problem, I would really appreciate the help.

I've seen a couple of post on here with guys having the same problems, but out of the replies I couldn't find anything that helped me. I'm not an expert when it comes to uTorrent, so if there is a few pointers anyone has that might help resolve this, please shout.

Cheers
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I use this for torrent downloads on my Mweb and Webafrica accounts - https://www.trltech.co.za/whmcs/cart.php?gid=9 I always get full speed when using this. Anyone else using this service?
 
hereticangel said:
ai ai people still using torrents, usenet is the answer :D
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Really... you say that but don't substantiate.

I've tried usenet.. it is not for me sorry.
- The stuff there is malware laden to a much larger degree than on torrents
- The stuff I want is not there, its on torrents

While a torrent download I can:
- Check to see if it is fake
- Evaluate its quality and decided to download further
- Sometimes see if its infected with malware
 
Koosi said:
Really... you say that but don't substantiate.

I've tried usenet.. it is not for me sorry.
- The stuff there is malware laden to a much larger degree than on torrents
- The stuff I want is not there, its on torrents

While a torrent download I can:
- Check to see if it is fake
- Evaluate its quality and decided to download further
- Sometimes see if its infected with malware
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That would be why you should grab "verified content" from "verified sources".
 
MWEB Guy said:
Good Morning VaxPrime, torrent speeds are not gauranteed and will fluctuate from day to day. The traffic is not given a high priority on our network, if you require the immediacy of line speed downloads please consider our unshaped accounts.
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Can I understand from that that MWEB is not torrent friendly ( Like IS for example) ? Or friendly after working hours ? You are very unclear.
 
The Situation with Torrent Downloading on MWEB Uncapped has now resolved itself once again rather Magically. As I Mentioned previously this usually only lasts for a couple of days and then corrects itself, just wish i could get a straight answer for once.
 
The Situation with Torrent Downloading on MWEB Uncapped has now resolved itself once again rather Magically. As I Mentioned previously this usually only lasts for a couple of days and then corrects itself, just wish i could get a straight answer for once.
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Do you need to get your glasses checked? The straight answer is:

Torrents are shaped heavily, so your speeds will vary. If you want fast torrents get capped/unshaped accounts.

I'm on Mweb uncapped and I have the exact same experience. Some days it flies along at max and some days I get 10-20k. I'm still paying crazy good prices considering how fast the other protocols are, so I don't complain. But then again, I'm also not hitting the downloads 24/7...
 
lol, seems i spoke too soon...., Both Torrent and eD2K traffic is completely turned off right now.
 
My glasses are fine thanks, there is however a difference between 10-20k and 0.

Talking about glasses, why was this not happening before MWEB developed their so-called Unshaped product?

There is an explanation beyond simple "Shaping" for this, and my guess would be an attempt to try and force more people to pay more for the "Unshaped" Product.

So basically, if you signed up for MWEB's Uncapped Product from basically day 1 the way I did, you have to be Blind, Deaf and Stupid not to notice the Massive Difference in the Service level, something is wrong on their Network, or else they are simply running a "Soft-cap" of sorts like some other ISP's and not admitting to it.

"Shaping" implies prioritizing of throughput, MWEB claims to shape in favor of HTTP port 80 and SMTP port 25 type traffic, then logic dictates that P2P will be slower at night when everyone is surfing, not at 11:00 in the morning when everyone is supposed to be Wage-slaving.
 
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cyberbob1979 said:
I would also assume that you have checked the torrents that you are downloading have seeders and peers etc and that your bit torrent client isn't complaining about firewalls or some such issues? I have torrents which just completely died - but that was because they were not seeded correctly / completely or there were no peers online.
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This is most likely the case. There is no complete copy of the specific torrent you are trying to download in the cloud. Find some "linux distro" on TPB with over a thousand seeds or so and see if that works. If it does, give up on the torrents that aren't working in your queue!
 
ElecEng said:
This is most likely the case. There is no complete copy of the specific torrent you are trying to download in the cloud. Find some "linux distro" on TPB with over a thousand seeds or so and see if that works. If it does, give up on the torrents that aren't working in your queue!
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Thanks for the feedback, this is however not the case, I take great care with selecting well seeded Torrents, been at this well over 10 years now, ever since I had to pay IS R3500.00 per month for 512 Uncapped that they later also started chocking until they eventually changed the product without notifying anyone into a 30Gb soft-cap.

I have a couple of T-shirts.... :)
 
In response to the OP's query, I have a 1Meg line and P2P is very slow. As I write this my well seeded torrent is running at betwen 4 and 10 Kb/s. A month ago it was triple this speed at the same time in the evening.

It always seems to be caused by some issue or setting in the background that will at some point be resolved with more purchased bandwidth etc etc. I have been with MWeb for close on two years and am an advocate of their service. There have been a few times when P2P traffic was slowed to a to zero and I've even witnessed Downstorm brought to a halt when bandwidth was obviously seriously scarce but on the whole, the service has been great.

Just give it some time..
 
why was this not happening before MWEB developed their so-called Unshaped product?
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Mweb, like most ISPs, has had unshaped for years. In the days of capped and shaped accounts, most gamers would get unshaped to ensure the best ping times. With the introduction of Mweb uncapped, Mweb also started putting more emphasis on games traffic, which is why I get 180 ping to the EU servers in League of Legends on my Mweb uncapped account :D (Geez I sound like an Mweb salesman).

"Shaping" implies prioritizing of throughput, MWEB claims to shape in favor of HTTP port 80 and SMTP port 25 type traffic, then logic dictates that P2P will be slower at night when everyone is surfing, not at 11:00 in the morning when everyone is supposed to be Wage-slaving.
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Incorrect. P2P will be hit most hard during the day, since this is business hours and Mweb will be shifting priority to their corporate clients. P2P has a nasty habit of sucking up whatever bandwidth it can, so Mweb has to shape it to ensure that people don't just kill their network with P2P downloads. It would kind of suck if everyone was downloading so much that people couldn't do simple things like access their mail or surf ordinary websites. And before you get on Mweb's case about it, most ISPs do it this way. I think the only accounts that have really lax shaping, are the Openweb Gold accounts.
 
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