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All settings fine used openoffice and 22C3 still slow.


Nicklt

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Hi, i'm using the same settings i have done for a long time, and i used to get 100/120KBYTESPS now though i'm not getting any higher than about 6-7KBYTEPS. I don't understand why. I have trie the openoffice and some of the 22C3 torrents and even those are going slow, i don't have a clue whats wrong. Any ideas?

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Nicklt said: "Damn them, maybe ill move onto newsgroups now."

If I remember correctly, it was Rogers ISP in Canada that started their own VoIP service and 'depriortized' ALL other forms of VoIP. This means they throttled competitor's VoIP services to the point where quality seriously suffered..."encouraging" customers to use theirs instead. Ironically, it meant for a while there that people on Rogers could run µTorrent on port 1720 (the port Rogers "dedicated" to their VoIP) without getting throttled so severely.

ComCast ISP in USA reduced free newsgroups support. Many ISPs don't even offer newsgroups support -- you have to pay extra a month to some 3rd party company to get it.

Lots of ISPs worldwide have monthly bandwidth limits that are a tiny fraction of what the connections are capable of.

What I'm getting at is ISPs that throttle p2p file-sharing are also quite likely to throttle anything that costs them alot of bandwidth. And many of them will call you a "bandwidth hog" if you complain about it.

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Yeah, my ISP has a "Fair Usage Policy" as they put it. This mean that even though my broadband is "Unlimited" if they see me downloading 50-100G+ then they throttle me, i ask them "Why you throttled me?" they say "Fair usage policy mate, not fair on other tiscali users that you have downloaded 100G and they only downloaded 5G!" - Is that my fault that they only download 5G. "Unlimited" is certainly not unlimited.

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