Topher92
join:2008-06-07
Mississauga, ON
| Throttled 24/7?
Looking for help and/or suggestions of what I might be missing.
I'm with TSI for DSL (and have no intentions of changing that), but my torrents have been throttled 24/7. Mornings, weekends, etc. Max throughput I've seen is around 30-31k/sec at any given point in the last couple of months or so. (Conveniently it happened around the time of Bell throttling the wholesalesers).
I've got a Gnet BB0050 modem (verified in bridge mode), Asus WL500gP running the modified Tomato 1.19 mp2-b1, cleared NVRAM, set multilink to single line. Still no change to my torrents, although direct downloads, web surfing, etc are all working normally (or at least, I think it's how it normally was).
I don't use torrents all that often, so it hasn't really been an issue, but from time to time, I will download large chunks and prefer not to have it take the better part of a week just to get OpenSUSE 11.0, or whatever else I want.
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koreyb
join:2005-01-08
Etobicoke, ON
 ·Primus Talkbroadband
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
| I've read somewhere, not sure if it's true, if you power cycle your dsl modem after the throttle time, it sometime resets things, until the throttle kicks back in.
Apparently some have reported that if they used BT during the throttle, it doesn't shut off until they do this.
Give it a shot.. is all I can recommend. |
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Topher92
join:2008-06-07
Mississauga, ON | I'll try that, never hurts to try. |
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koreyb
join:2005-01-08
Etobicoke, ON | Keep us posted if it works! |
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Topher92
join:2008-06-07
Mississauga, ON | Power cycled everything this morning around 7AM (which, as far as I know, is outside of throttling times). Modem, Router, and PC. No luck. I'm still hovering around 31k/sec.  |
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Topher92
join:2008-06-07
Mississauga, ON | reply to Topher92
Tried the latest Tomato/MLPPP on a WRT54GL and I'm still only getting ~30k. Reset NVRAM, rebooted everything, selected single link MLPPP. I've got to be an idiot, 'cuz I think I've covered everything! Anybody got an idea what I'm missing? |
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Guspaz
Guspaz
Premium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC | reply to Topher92
If you're getting such performance 24/7, you're not throttled; you have line speed issues.
Please run a speedtest and post your line stats. |
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dre145
join:2007-04-05 | somethings wrong if ur using the tomato/mlppp and are still only getting 30kb...
Are you getting good speeds downloading of ftp etc?? Only BT is slow?? |
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Topher92
join:2008-06-07
Mississauga, ON
1 edit | reply to Guspaz
I actually qualify for a 16 Meg line, but refuse to have any services with Bell. (This dates back a few years and is a long, involved story about how they held a security deposit of $200 for my home phone and didn't want to return it. I'm happy to tell that story, but it doesn't belong here.)  |
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Topher92
join:2008-06-07
Mississauga, ON
2 edits | reply to dre145
I get great speeds when downloading direct, but 30k when downloading the same thing via bittorrent.
I can download Ubuntu 8.04 from U of Waterloo servers at almost 500k, but via bittorrent, it's still around 30k. |
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recneps
join:2006-06-24
Whitby, ON
1 edit | reply to Topher92
You've tried something well-seeded, like ubuntu?
Ports are opened properly?
Uploads not choking out download?
Edit: ok so you've done ubuntu. That rules out the health of the specific torrent. |
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Guspaz
Guspaz
Premium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC | reply to Topher92
Last step, then: PM Deadpool (Bell management) and he'll investigate the issue for you in case of faulty DPI hardware. |
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Topher92
join:2008-06-07
Mississauga, ON
| reply to recneps
said by recneps  :
You've tried something well-seeded, like ubuntu?
Most of my downloads are linux distros or freeware, so they should be well seeded.
quote:
Ports are opened properly?
As far as I can tell they are, ports are all forwarded properly in the router, torrents showing blue down arrow in utorrent.
quote:
Uploads not choking out download?
Unlimited uploads. Bell does a good enough job of choking them, I don't need to make it worse. |
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Topher92
join:2008-06-07
Mississauga, ON
| reply to Guspaz
said by Guspaz :Last step, then: PM Deadpool (Bell management) and he'll investigate the issue for you in case of faulty DPI hardware. I'll try that, thanks. |
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j3richo
join:2007-12-08
Gatineau, QC | reply to Topher92
have you kept any sort of proof\log or can you do that now to prove that it's been going on for 24/7? this seems like something CAIP could make use of. |
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Topher92
join:2008-06-07
Mississauga, ON
| said by j3richo :have you kept any sort of proof\log or can you do that now to prove that it's been going on for 24/7? this seems like something CAIP could make use of. I've never kept a log, and I'm not quite enough of a tech to know how to do that without Googling it first. |
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DrZEUS
join:2004-01-13
Mississauga, ON | reply to Topher92
I think im in the same boat...seems like I am always throttled no matter what time....rebooting modem doesn't help. |
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drjp81
join:2006-01-09
canada | Yave you tried the MLPPP trick to see if that makes a difference for any said torrent that you may have been having trouble with?
If so are results similar?
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Cheers! |
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mr_hexen
join:2007-08-02
Brampton, ON
| reply to Topher92
said by Topher92 : quote:
Uploads not choking out download?
Unlimited uploads. Bell does a good enough job of choking them, I don't need to make it worse. this could be your problem. set your max upload speed to 30kB/sec and see what happens. BitTorrent needs some available upload bandwidth from your line to be able to acknowledge downloads. sounds odd, but it's true. |
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Topher92
join:2008-06-07
Mississauga, ON
| I've tried various settings from 5kB/s to unlimited for uploads but that doesn't seem to make a difference.
I've even tried rebooting everything outside of throttling hours, as I've heard that works for some people. Not for me, though. |
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