Danson
@mountaincable.net
|  Is Mountain Cable Throttling Torrents now?
Is Mountain Cable Throttling torrents? I am only able to max out my torrents at 40kb/s and that is with Linux ISO torrents that generally max my cable speed. While doing this I can run speakeasy's speed test and get 750~ kb/s
What's the deal. Has Mountain got to the evil side with bell who I left due to throttling. Hopefully someone will reply. |
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twizlar
I dont think so.
Premium
join:2003-12-24
Brantford, ON | No throttling here. |
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sc
@mountaincable.net | reply to Danson
Definitely suspecting this myself. I'm having the same problems as you, it's really disappointing if it's true. |
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Travisasdasdasd
@mountaincable.net
| reply to Danson
You have to think about the seeds, leechers, and all that fancy stuff.
A torrent with few seeds and a ton of leechers (most public torrent websites) will definitely go slow.
The torrents I download from private trackers usually go at about 750-800 because it is a requirement to seed to keep your share ratio up.
Also, the throttling was only for upload, not download. So your downloading would not be affected, even if they were throttling in the same way Rogers/Bell/etc throttles. |
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Danson
@mountaincable.net
| reply to Danson
Well, I picked this torrent due to its high SLR 1507 Seeds to 97 Leechers.
»torrent.ubuntu.com/simple/intrep···i386.iso
Now with this torrent after a few minutes I am only able to achieve sub 100 KB/s download speeds. With it mostly staying in the 80's.
Now people I know in the UK are pulling 500kb/s+ off the exact same torrent. |
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twizlar
I dont think so.
Premium
join:2003-12-24
Brantford, ON | I just tried that torrent and it was going 700+ after 2-3 minutes. |
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Danson
@mountaincable.net
| reply to Danson
Well, the part that is confusing me and making me think they are throttling it is that I can wget content at 700~kb/s while my torrents are stuck in the sub 100's.
If my internet across the board was slow then I would think internal network issues. Torrents had been running fine until a week or so ago, and since they have been slow.
Does MountainCable limit people once they hit a certain amount of bandwidth? |
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SomeGuy13
@mountaincable.net
| reply to Danson
Definitely no throttling after a certain amount, I downloaded over 1 TB in December, max'd my connection the whole month 
Must be you, or the places you're downloading from.
Keep in mind, free torrent sites are terrible. Use ratio-based sites, where people WANT to upload. torrentz.com and mininova just don't cut it.
Also, skip your router and use 1 pc straight to the modem, could be a router issue.
HTH |
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Danson
@mountaincable.net | reply to Danson
I feel the need to write a conclusion to this. Turns out it was a NAT issue. Anyways, Mountain cable is one of the best ISP's I have dealt with and would recommend them to anyone. |
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Mountaineeer
@mountaincable.net
| said by Danson :
I feel the need to write a conclusion to this. Turns out it was a NAT issue. Anyways, Mountain cable is one of the best ISP's I have dealt with and would recommend them to anyone.
When you say you were maxing out at 40kbs was that upload or download? |
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Fireblade
join:2008-08-27
St Catharines, ON
 ·Cogeco Cable
 ·Vonage
| reply to Danson
Back when I had Mountain Cable I figured that too at first - then all of a sudden I would be downloading a torrent at full speed from start to finish. I think you guys are just downloading poor torrents and/or your router/torrent configurations are screwed up.
Here's some snapshots of my uTorrent settings:
Connection: »img510.imageshack.us/img510/6379/ut1.jpg
I have everything disabled in the Connection setting, I trust that my router can handle a simple port forward and I don't need layers of complications that could screw up a simple task. That's why I have UPnP and NAT disabled - the rest for obvious reasons.
Bandwidth: »img5.imageshack.us/img5/4027/ut2.jpg
Now in the Bandwidth setting, my configuration there is a little high for most routers to handle, just cut everything by half if you run into any large slowdowns - except for the upload rate which I usually leave on 12-20. Some torrets are setup to limit your downstream if your upstream isn't uploading a fair bandwidth ratio.
BitTorrent: »img18.imageshack.us/img18/6299/ut3.jpg
I have Protocol Encryption enabled and to accept Legacy Connections because unlike Mountain Cable, Cogeco likes to throttle torrents here and there. I have seen a performance increase of about 10-40% with it enabled.
Router: »img510.imageshack.us/img510/9532···55ut.jpg
As for my router, I have 4 Virtual Servers setup - you'll only need one as each one is for a different computer/IP. The configuration on your router will be different than mine as most of you will have a different router. I recommend checking out »www.portforward.com/english/rout···ndex.htm for the correct router configuration. Hope this helps. |
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Danson
@mountaincable.net | reply to Danson
I was talking download, It has since been rectified. I seem to have the worlds shittiest routing equipment. I should cave and build a BSD box to use as a router. |
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