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[Ultra/Lite] Rogers Throttling upstream?

Rogers has not yet fully removed upstream throttling. They supposedly started removing it in March, but the timeline for complete removal is through the end of the year. If it's identifying the Minecraft server as P2P file transfers, it could be kicking in and throttling to 80Kbps (10KBps).

Or it could just be an outright problem with their throttling boxes.

But odd that it would be fine for 2-3 days first.

reply to VectorBoy
Haven't run a server myself, but from what I've read Minecraft servers love their RAM -- is it possible that you aren't being throttled after 48-72 hours, but are running out of memory at that point instead?

Actually I have the exact same issue, the server will run fine for a few hours/days then extreme lag comes and the game becomes unplayable!. I monitor my upstream and even with only 1 person on the server they get horrible lag.. so they clearly still throttle applications including minecraft servers :P

reply to Ree
nope, definitely not a RAM issue.. system uptime has been weeks/months.. works fine whenever I switch ports, I've rebooted many times as well just to see if it was indeed an out of memory dealy, but it was not.. by deduction it's the upstream throttle.

Not surprising. Minecraft was one of the games I brought up with Rogers reps when I was putting together my World of Warcraft complaint, and it was ignored.