diomedes Posted July 18, 2007 Report Posted July 18, 2007 I can't *double* post to bump my "forgotten" thread, so i have to obtain attention by starting a new one....Couple i get a reply to the previous post? it is HEREI keep getting the ISP upload compression mssg on dsl, it's giving innaccurate readings.I leave it at a moderate xx/256 k setting and it lags heavily still ----> the problem is not fixed.
Firon Posted July 18, 2007 Report Posted July 18, 2007 Editing should actually bump it.And well, you gotta turn DHT off, lower connections, lower net.max_halfopen, and play with your upload speed to find a value that doesn't lag you to hell.
diomedes Posted July 18, 2007 Author Report Posted July 18, 2007 Thx for the reply, didn't know editing bumped in this forum...I have tried all of those things, and have been playing with my upload speed constantly for the past 2 weeks. Sometimes things go great for a while, but most of the time they lag. I have set net.max Halfopen to 5 just nowi have tried today xx/128 (lags like hell), xx/196 (same), and even xx/96 (which is disappointing me today).Global max # of connections is 80max # of connected peers per torrent is 55why does the ISP compression constantly reoccur? Sometimes its as low as 4.
Switeck Posted July 19, 2007 Report Posted July 19, 2007 You on Rogers Cable ISP?...one of the most NOTORIOUS for throttling file-sharing and even any encrypted traffic!
diomedes Posted July 19, 2007 Author Report Posted July 19, 2007 Yup, im on Rogers, and normally a claim like that would freak me out, but there are times when utorrent downloads perfectly, and also, other forms of heavy traffic on my pc (my pc has massive download traffic) never suffer from anything resembling throttling. Does lagging behavior in a torrent client suggest throttling?edit: Connecting to peers has become this week (why??) ridiculously difficult. Some torrents take about 2 hrs to connect and start to download. They are well seeded. I tried dling Azareus just for the hell of it, and it has no problem connecting to peers like utorrent. I really don't want to switch torrent clients, but i don't really get whats going on here.How do i know if Rogers is throttling my downloads??????
Ultima Posted July 19, 2007 Report Posted July 19, 2007 If you have everything configured properly for your connection, and your port is forwarded, and OpenOffice.org torrents are still running slowly, then you're most likely being throttled.
diomedes Posted July 20, 2007 Author Report Posted July 20, 2007 To be honest, i'm not totally convinced that i'm being throttled. My rates can be decent : 2 files that were about 1 GB each dled overnight & and right now i'm at a speed of about 80. One particular uploader has excellent seeding capacity and his torrents are always fine, but i'm still on a pathetic xx/92 k connection, it takes a LONG time to connect and start to get goog transfer rates, but they generally do happen lately. Is this what throttling symptoms generally look like???? I went to isohunt, but can't find OpenOffice there, but i wouldn't be surprised if it worked rather well in general. I only found some with 2 seeds and like, 7 leechers, i doubt that would create impressive speeds.I mean, i'd like to know for sure if it's rogers. if so i would switch TOMMORROW to bell (friend of mine has it, his torrents kick ass) but i still see signs that don't suggest throttling. Only problem is, i find the help here on this forum lately ignores many of my remarks and defaults to "yeah, you're being throttled, not my problem". (and bang, my global transfer just landed down to average around 15 as typed the last sentence).
Ultima Posted July 20, 2007 Report Posted July 20, 2007 *shrug* Throttling methods aren't always perfect, so the results can be flip-floppy and/or not immediate. If you won't believe us that Rogers is throttling, then go look around the forums to see how many other people have complained.
diomedes Posted July 21, 2007 Author Report Posted July 21, 2007 I'll post up for closure, and also to eat my words, as i was doubting people who were providing accurate assumptions :You guys were right, i called Rogers myself and asked what the deal was. They openly admitted to throttling P2P upon reaching the 60 Gb limit per payment session (ie month). Oddly enough, my call coincided with the payment date, so things are pretty peachy over here right now. Pretty strange coincidence.Some months i have additional bandwidth that doesn't originate from P2P but they use that traffic to count up 60 to start throttling P2P regardless, which doesn't suit me at all. I'm calling a couple places tomorrow that advertise unlimited bandwidth/downloads and if i'm happy with the info they provide, i'm switching as soon as possible. Thanks for the help along the way.
Ultima Posted July 21, 2007 Report Posted July 21, 2007 Sorta good to hear (the switching part anyway)
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