koldfuzzion Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 hey everyone can you help me out with my speed issues?since we have download limits in portugal, i use the scheduler to download during "free for all" hours when you can download all you want without it counting towards your limit.. during the rest of the day i have the scheduler limit the download at 1k/s. I noticed that when the scheduler unlimits the connection the download speed shoots up suddenly to about 400K/s and then decreases in 2 or 3 seconds to 20K/s and remains constant throughout. It seems like my normal speed would be 400K/s (i have a 4mbit connection so it makes sense) but something is limiting it... any ideas? I use zonealarm firewall but everything is set up fine, i also use cfosspeed but all it does is help, and i also run emule simultaneously but it never reaches speeds beyond 10K/s... any ideas? thanks in advance... hope you guys can sort this out 4 me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 Assuming you set everything up correctly, it might just be ISP throttling. I wouldn't be too surprised either... Since the ISP already limits download totals, they probably limit download speeds to minimize the free-for-all download totals too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koldfuzzion Posted February 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 thanks for the reply, but what can of situation might give this problem, besides ISP throttling? I also tried it outside free for all hours and the same thing happened, 400 down to 20K/s, and I don't think they would throttle during regular hours... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 Oh many ISPs don't care that you pay them for the bandwidth -- they'll limit anyway. Do you have a router? If so, did you portforward? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koldfuzzion Posted February 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 no, i'm connected to my cable modem which is connected directly to the wall... i just noticed in cfosspeed it says:Network ComponentAccton EN1207D-TX PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter Router (Mac 00:00:00:00:00:00, IP ***.22.94.254) (i masked out the ip) what does that mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 Doesn't mean much, since you said you don't have a router... honestly, it sounds like ISP throttling... but just to be sure, try downloading OpenOffice.org v2.0.1 and report back how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk-lt Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 What is your upload speed set to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koldfuzzion Posted February 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 i tried downloading the file and got an average of about 130K/s... not bad... so I guess it's not throttling... i bet they do throttle, but not much during the day (regular hours).. my global max upload is set to 18K/s... my connection is 32K/s (256kbit).. I also have emule running with a upload max of 10K, so that leaves about 4K... since I have cfosspeed traffic shaping I guess 4K leftover upstream should be enough... what do you guys think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 I don't know... 130KB/s sounds too low, considering your maximum should be about 500KB/s (yes, that's what 4mbit lines go at, approximately =P). The OpenOffice.org torrent should easily max out almost anyone's lines (anyone who is perfectly connectable and not throttled, that is)... Your upload seems fine, I guess, since you're using eMule as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 Close eMule (or temporarily limit it to 2 KB/s or something, since closing eMule is painful when you have queued files), stop your torrents, and try the OO torrent again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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