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Re: Technical differences? andyb, I don't wish to dismiss your experiences with Bell, but I wish to disagree. I've used p2p software in the past, I use it now, I also experience Bell throttling. During traffic shaping to my network, performance did decrease, and everything felt throttled. Here's the rub: it was not Bell. The reason my Internet performance dropped was due to my router. It simply could not handle such a large amount of traffic.
Your own explanation leads me to conclude the exact same situation is happening for you. Bell does not throttle game applications, at least from my experience, and several others I know of. What bell does throttle is p2p traffic, traffic that is encrypted, traffic on non standard ports around 40000~ and above, and VPN sessions.
It's interesting that once WoW is started, your Internet performance decrease. Might I suggest that this connection intensive game stresses your router considerably. One of the easiest solutions to test, and apply, is QoS (quality of service).
By telling your router to lower the priority to WoW and other games via QoS, you should notice a considerable increase in performance IF, and only if, your router is to blame. In the event that QoS does not have any impact on your situation, then I would stand corrected on the issue of bell throttling WoW.
I refer you to one of my previous posts as to why this happens and why your router is most likely the problem.
I wish you good luck solving your problem, and I hope this helped
Regards,
Raff | |
| I didn't know they let you guys onto this site at Bell. They didn't when I was there or do you get a special pass due to your shill status? | |
| Testing to see if it says @bell.ca or @sympatico.ca...
Hmmm... It would seem all Bell Internet accounts show as @bell.ca, not just employees. I would assume you are assuming Raff is an employee? If so, perhaps things have changed at Bell... | |
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