Warez_Zealot
Rural land of the rising sun
join:2006-04-19
japan
1 edit | BT speeds slow.
Ok, so I am visiting my uncle, and trying to download some torrents off IP torrents. They are healthy torrents, and back home in Japan I got like 2000-4000kB/s.
I'm here at his place and downloading the same torrent and it's going 30kB/s. There are many North American peers, and it should be going at leaast 100-300kB/s.
I installed DDWRT and port forwarded, and even put the max connections per torrent down to 50 (from 100). I'm still getting PATHETIC speeds.
Does Mountain Cable throttle in the day then un-throttle at night? (he said it seems to speed up drastically at night) Canadian ISP's have become garbage in the last year. Before I moved away, he used to get like 300-800kB/s
He has VOIP, HD, 2 PVR HD boxes, a good cable package and inet. Pretty crappy way to treat your good paying customers IMO. Luckily he has no other alternative than crappy Bell. 
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"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it."-Malcolm X
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quantumfluxx
join:2009-01-11
1 edit | I too notice a severe throttling of all traffic during certain times of the day. I am currently downloading from usenet, with a whopping max connection speed of 150-200kb/sec. It's absolutely attrocious when Mountaincable's speeds are already slow enough as it is, that during the evening they need to throttle everyone back to this speed to keep from damaging their terrible network.
I could see maybe lowering to 500 from the usual 800. But 150-200? Thats less than a quarter of my speed that I'm paying for.
Just did a speed test. One came back 3mbit. The other, closer connection test? See for yourself:
Mountaincable has lost me as a customer. This is the end. |
