 Review by asdjf 
UPDATED: 2.2 years ago
member for 4.9 years, 599 visits, last login: 7 days ago
 Springfield,Sangamon,IL
 $75 per month (12 month contract)
 about 10 days
 "Some free but limited usenet access through Giganews"
 "BitTorrent protocol is throttled"
 "Kind of a ripoff"
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If you care about using p2p, don't get this service. They have begun to throttle BT connections, which is a huge slap in the face to top-tier customers like me. But if you want to spend almost a hundred dollars and still end up with a connection that tries to limit how you use it, be my guest. Me, I'm cancelling my service.
Followup comments:  GLIMMER
join:2004-01-17
Urbana, IL | can you? can you actually prove they are shaping traffic? I know I can download and upload on my box at will with utorrent and it was maxing out last night at 9.1mbits down and .5 up which is what I have it set to | |
|  | | | | GLIMMER
join:2004-01-17
Urbana, IL | Re: can you? and if you notice that I have also posted screenshots of my utorrent client downloading at 5.5mbits a second and uploading at .5. | |
| | | | syrkel2
join:2003-12-02
Galesburg, IL
 ·Comcast
| Re: can you? Well just to let everybody know... insight quit requiring mac address registration... at least in my area... all you have to do now is unplug the cable modem and when you plug it back in it automatically registers the new mac address for you of whatever you have plugged into the modem. | |
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bugs bunny
@insightbb.com
| packet shapers Um, yeah, they are using packet shapers. About a month after I started using a bittorrent client things started acting slow.
Now, when I first connect, I get really fast speeds, then, about 10-20 seconds later, it grinds to a halt. I ran tracert to find the closest hop to their network, then ran ping -t to that IP address and then started up my browser. Sure enough, everything was A-OK until the browser was and loading a video on Youtube. (and you can shut the hell up about Youtube. It's just used as an example. This happens whenever there is a load put on the line) After the standard 10-20 seconds everything got fucked and I saw the pings go from 1-15 ms to anywhere from 1700 ms to 3300 ms with the rare and temporary dip to 300 ms.
So you can sit there and say they aren't using packet shapers, but you're full of shit. | |
| | Myen
join:2007-10-01
Bloomington, IL
1 edit | Re: packet shapers What you just explained happenes whenever you put a huge load on a connection (AKA downloading youtube videos, torrents, and whatnot), your ping will rocket during the transfer, this is not network shapeing, but network congestion.
And to cover this before someone trys to correct me, even through you can watch stuff on youtube almost right away, you are not streaming it, but essentially Watching it while it downloads, which will take alot of your bandwidth untill it is done downloading | |
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