sup191
join:2008-02-24
Milwaukee, WI
| Re: [TWC] Throttling in Milwaukee? said by epickles  :After you upload via VPN tunnel to usenet, please let me know how that works out. After setting up a VPN tunnel, my uploads were smooth and without any dropped packets. Granted, I was testing using a free VPN service (well, $3 for 3 days or 100 MB's), so my speeds were set low by the VPN server, but I had no problem holding a constant speed without any dropped packets. The VPN was using PPP instead of the usual TCP protocol, but it still proves to me that Time Warner is interfering with uploads from me. DC++ also worked a lot better through the VPN. I tried uploading a 10 meg file to a FTP site and I got my usual max speed - 125k/sec. So, FTP is not effected. I even tried torrenting a 4 gig Linux ISO, just to see if that was effected, figuring that would be the MAIN thing they would want to limit. I did get a bit of packet loss, but the speeds ended up being exactly what I got before my other issues happened. I'm not sure why the torrent worked so smoothly. I'm guessing the large number of seeds/peers outdid the amount of packet loss I was getting.
I don't know what it all means so far, but I still feel Time Warner has something to do with this. The last things I plan to try out in the next couple days is to try my cable modem at a friends house and see if the same problems happen, and finally, swap the modem at a Time Warner store. After that, I've exhausted everything I can possibly do on my end.
Dammit Verizon! Where is FiOS in my area?!?  |
