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reply to silverpig1

Re: BT slowdowns?

reply to will2k
I sent off an e-mail to Shaw support, asking them if they were doing anything to throttle BitTorrent traffic. The tech said that he's had the same problems at home, but that it is against Shaw's policy to restrict usage of any kind. He also mentioned that other ISPs around the country have had the same problems. Assuming he is telling the truth, there must be some other explanation. I checked around and found some other posts confirming this, though only in Canada.

reply to will2k
I'd love to see some sort of explanation for this. It's not like the protocol for BT can change overnight. Something or someone is effecting (not affecting) this. Who I do not know, Why is also a good question.

This is what I want to happen ok?

Anyone who is having problems post here, with the following information. (DO NOT POST UNLESS YOU'RE POSTING ALL THE INFO - None of this "I don't know" crap)

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1. Modem Make/Model & ISP
2. Your Location (Approx - EG: North Vanc @ East 22nd)
3. Sys Specs - (CPU, RAM, OS, LAN Adapter, Service Pack)
4. When you noticed problems
5. Any other network devices (Router, AP, Etc)
6. Bit Torrent Client

Let's track this down people. There IS an explanation for this.

My current hypothesis is:

1. SB5100's Getting an update from Shaw, and it's gone wrong somehow
2. Bit Torrent Client, or Some virus/worm not yet detected.

Cheers,

SyS

1. Motorola SB5100 - Shaw
2. Burrard & W. Broadway (near Kitsilano)
3. P4 3.0Ghz, 512MB, Win XP Pro, AcerLAN ALN-201, SP2
4. October 30th
5. None

1. Motorola SB5100 - Shaw
2. North Vanc @ East 22nd
3. P4 3.0Ghz, 1GB, Win XP Pro, Onboard Intel & Linksys PCI Secondary (backup), SP1
4. October 30th
5. Linksys WRT54G
6. Azureus 2.2.0.0

1. Motorola SB5100 - Shaw Xtreme-I
2. Vancouver East @ E.38 and renfrew
3. AMD 2.4, 512mb ram, Win XP pro SP1. ECS onbard lan card
4. last week
5. WRT54G ver 2
6. ABC, Bitcomet
7. MAX BT TRAFFIC is 40 kB/s

reply to will2k
1. Motorola SB5100 - Xtreme-I
2. Vancouver Kerrisdale
3. XP 3200+ 1 GB RAM with XP Pro SP2 and Gentoo Linux using 3com onboard LAN
4. October 30th
5. P3 450 64 MB ram router running Smoothwall linux
6. Azureus 2.2.0.0 (also tried 2.1.0.4 or whatever and Bit tornado

I can finally get decent upload speeds but it takes for damn ever, and it quite often drops back down to horrible speeds for a while. And the download speeds take forever to get anywhere near decent.

ALSO: Has anyone else noticed that upload speeds are a multiple of 3.2 k/s? 0, 3.2, 6.4, 9.6 etc? My friend and I are both experiencing this.

reply to will2k
1. Motorola SB5100 - Shaw Xtreme-I
2. Richmond @ No.1 and Francis
3. XP 2500+ 512mb ram with xp pro SP1
4. Oct 29th
5. D-Link DI-514 Router
6. Azureus 2.2.0.0, BitComet 0.56

reply to will2k
1. Motorola SB5100 on Shaw (not extreme)
2. North Van, 4th and Lonsdale
3. Athlon XP 2600+, 512M RAM, Win XP SP2, SMC 1211
4. Nov 2nd, away for the weekend
5. none
6. Azureus 2.2.0.0

my d/l is fine, but my upload fluctuates btwn 0 and 12.8kB/s. Watching the details in Azureus, the upload speeds jump from 0 to some multiple of 3.2 kB/s. Then the upload drops back to zero. I also can't seem to connect to more than 4 peers at a time for any torrent. Wierd.

reply to will2k
1. Motorola SB5100, Shaw extreme
2. East Van, Main and 33rd
3. Athlon XP 1600+, 768mb RAM, WinXP SP2, SMC1211 Series
4. Oct30
5. Added a Linksys Wireless-B router yesterday, with DMZ
enabled, still the same.
6. Bittornado 0.3.7/0.3.8

reply to will2k
I'm seeing these multiples as well.

More details to follow, I'm all over this.

reply to will2k
1. Motorola SB5100, Shaw regular highspeed
2. South Van (49th & Victoria)
3. XP2500, 512MB RAM, XP Pro-SP1, nVidia onboard NIC
4. Oct.30th
5. Linksys WRT54G v2
6. BitTornado 0.3.7/0.3.8

I just noticed that my BT went back to normal/full speed today (Nov.3) around 12:00-1:00pm then it dropped back to crap speeds again around 3pm. Weird. I have no problems connecting to 50+ seeds/peers, but d/l & u/l is still crap.

reply to xsmirage
All of a sudden I'm getting it, everything was fine this afternoon but its in the shitter tonight.
I changed ports to no effect. Still hovering around 0-0.5 KiB/s on a well seeded torrent. Connection is otherwise normal.

Strangly enough I am getting the odd burst of speed from a single peer.

1. Terayon TCM 200, Shaw
2. Southern Alberta
3. P4 2.1, 1GB, XP Pro SP2, Sis 900 integrated NIC
4. Nov 03, ~2145
5. Router running Astaro (DLink 530TX X 2), ports are fowarded correctly.
6. Azureus 2.2.0.0

reply to will2k
1.Motorola SB5100 - Shaw i-extreme
2.No.3 & Westminster Hwy Richmond
3.P4 2.4Ghz, 512MB, Win XP pro sp2, intel onboard NIC
4.October 30th
5.Linksys BFSR41
6.Bitcomet 0.56

Seems like only the SB5100 are affected...:(

reply to will2k
copied from rs.net computer forum

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called up Shaw tonight and they actually have a "ticket" on fixing certain P2P issues right now. They have admitted that they do have problems with download speeds for certain P2P networks. They wouldn't say exactly which ones but they are working on it.

The dude I talked to was very helpful and said that they've been getting lots of complaints about slow transfer speeds on P2P networks.

I guess the best thing to do if you continue to have problems is just call them up so they can log all this info.
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posted by EgNyTeR

reply to WRX888
Just called up a friend and they are also having slow BT.

1. Motorola SB5100, Shaw Extreme-I
2. South Van (E.57th & Fraser)
3. P4-1.5, 512MB RAM, XP Pro-SP1, onboard Intel NIC
4. Oct.30th
5. Linksys WRT54G v1
6. BitTornado 0.3.7

On a side note, I just called Shaw support and the tech I was speaking with mentioned that I was the 2nd call tonight he got about slow BT, and they are investigating. I asked him if he knew what "maintenance/upgrade" was done on Oct. 28th and he didn't know. He said to call back in a couple days if the problem still persists with my ticket# and check for any updates.

reply to will2k
1. Motorola SB5100 Regular Speed (3Web actually).
2. East Van, Hastings & Nanaimo.
3. AMD Athlon 2500 XP, 512 MB Ram, Fedora Core 2, Linksys NIC.
4. Last Weekend (Oct 30th?).
5. D-link 604.
6. Shad0w's experimental client.

reply to will2k
I'm using i-extreme.
I don't use BT a lot. The p2p program I had problems are Winmx and Utatane. Starts from 2,3 days ago, I cannot upload at all, ul speed is 0-2k, the download seems ok.

Btw after a shaw guy told me they did nothing to cause this I spent 2 days hunting virus in my system...killed some innocent worms...=_= and now found out it's not virus at all....

reply to will2k
currently getting 160+ KB/s (kilobytes) on a naruto torrent, regular 3MBit service, edmonton, docsis

reply to will2k
Btw vancouver here.

I think only shaw has the problem, none of other forums has similar complaint.

And only p2p uploading is affected, BT downloading also slows down since it highly depends on other ppls ul.