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UPC Downloads very slow (tethering)

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    #62
    Rebel021
    Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭Rebel021


    Starting downloading 4 files this morning
    The first 2 came down at near full speed then I get an error on the next 2
    Server port closed
    go back and redownload the last 2 files from the webpage and we're back to 100 kbs speed.

    In my opinion definitely traffic shaping going on here


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    #63
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    It's got to be UPC shaping the connection. I'm down to averaging 50kbs this morning. I'm gonna ring them on Monday, but i doubt they'll be any use at all.


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    #64
    jeffk
    Registered Users Posts: 5,841 ✭✭✭jeffk


    As I posted in that other thread, try this.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=68528641&postcount=46


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    #65
    Rebel021
    Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭Rebel021


    jeffk wrote: »
    As I posted in that other thread, try this.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=68528641&postcount=46

    I use IDM and mine is set to 16 still no difference


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    #66
    jeffk
    Registered Users Posts: 5,841 ✭✭✭jeffk


    Rebel021 wrote: »
    I use IDM and mine is set to 16 still no difference

    VERY strange how this seems to only happen on hotfile, im on eircom myself.


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    #67
    Rebel021
    Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭Rebel021


    jeffk wrote: »
    VERY strange how this seems to only happen on hotfile, im on eircom myself.
    On my eircom connection I get full speed its only hotfile on upc that I get dreadful speeds:mad:


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    #68
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,011 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Will ring UPC tomorow, certainly there is a hotfile problem with them, weird their phone support isnt available saterday yet is on sunday...

    Nick

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    #69
    Bigjez
    Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭Bigjez


    Don't know if this is any help but I rang UPC because of my download speed. I'm in balbriggan and I'm only getting 14 on the 30 mb package. Well they didnt turn up as agreed on Thursday but that's for another thread and arrived this morning. Typical he does a test this morning and I'm getting 24 mb. I show him a printout of the speeds from the last two months showing the poor speeds and he says my setup is fine and that it's a transmission problem. Don't know if it'll be fixed soon so I'm gonna call billing to sort out a discount.


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    #70
    AdrianII
    Registered Users Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭AdrianII


    im gettin between 5kb and 30kb a 200mb file is estimated to take 11hours.

    its like 1995 all over again


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    #71
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,011 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    AdrianII wrote: »
    im gettin between 5kb and 30kb a 200mb file is estimated to take 11hours.

    its like 1995 all over again

    Yep same, if using a download manager I can get 70kb/s :D . It seems strange the UPC don't throttle megaupload/rapidshare which are equally as popular, hopefully its just a UPC network issiue to hotfiles servers

    Nick

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    #72
    1dowling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭1dowling


    I'm averaging 30kbps downloads from Hotfile on UPC but if I enable blackVPN on the same connection I get full speed. My guess is that they are testing the waters with Hotfile... Depositfiles, rapidshare etc. could be next. If this is the case I doubt anyone will get anywhere with customer services... :mad:


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    #73
    Stevo105
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭Stevo105


    Yes My Hotfile account is useless now..max 24 kb


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    #74
    jeffk
    Registered Users Posts: 5,841 ✭✭✭jeffk


    Has anyone emailed hotfile?

    I downloaded their test file an sent them the highest and lowest speeds, still no word back as of today.


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    #75
    AdrianII
    Registered Users Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭AdrianII


    anyone ring upc today??
    any updates, any one getting decent speeds today?


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    #76
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,011 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Been on to UPC today and the Tech support guy insisted they do not care what you use the internet for, and he confirmed they do not shape traffic in any shape or form, and it is more than likely a hotfile problem, I will email hotfile and if they say its a isp problem he said they would escalate it further

    Nick

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    #77
    AdrianII
    Registered Users Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭AdrianII


    same reply as i got

    they dont throttle, block, shape traffic, they dont care what you download, and he mentioned the court case they won :rolleyes:

    so i dont know where we lie


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    #78
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,011 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    AdrianII wrote: »
    same reply as i got

    they dont throttle, block, shape traffic, they dont care what you download, and he mentioned the court case they won :rolleyes:

    so i dont know where we lie

    He told me its the first he heard about hotfile problems :rolleyes: . Probably got a different tech though in fairness :)

    Nick

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    #79
    themaddhatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭themaddhatter


    Been getting terrible speeds for nearly a week now. Seems to be specific hotfile servers that are slow though, since some are getting normal(ish) speeds. Only just renewed the account and can't even use it :( switched to OpenDNS the other day to see if it made a difference and it hasn't. At most i get 100kb/s and i can also get as little as 3


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    #80
    calex71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    Laughable at this point was up at home for the weekend and got full speed , just got back here and am getting 13kbps down

    I'm going to get a fileserve account to hell with rs and hf


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    #81
    Aquos76
    Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,034 Mod ✭✭✭✭Aquos76


    AdrianII wrote: »
    anyone ring upc today??
    any updates, any one getting decent speeds today?

    Slightly better today alright

    hotfile.jpg
    This is the max Im getting where as I get 1.8mb from RS links


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    #82
    Aquos76
    Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,034 Mod ✭✭✭✭Aquos76


    Think I spoke too soon :mad:
    hotfile1.jpg


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    #83
    AdrianII
    Registered Users Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭AdrianII


    im getting 300kb at the moment, better than all weekend


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    #84
    -jethro-
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭-jethro-


    its definitely certain hotfile servers, some servers offer download speeds over 1mb/ps and i find other links are going as slow as 20kb/ps... so why that is i dont know but i hope hotfile fix it soon.


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    #85
    sk8gr8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭sk8gr8


    It's from hotfile allright, since from 5 ongoing downloads, 3 are at 150KB/s and other 2 at 1,3MB/s
    Maybe they are making a difference between free and premium uploaders( slower speeds on free uploader's files)
    Could be a connection issue aswell. I've seen ISP's that don't block the peer-to-peer, just lowering the download speeds to a level that most users would give up waiting fpr a download.
    That doesn't stop the heavy downloaders to leave the pc's work over night :D


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    #86
    AdrianII
    Registered Users Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭AdrianII


    another shockingly slow day.

    Speeds from 0.15 to 30kb im getting

    which is it hotfile or upc

    on the blower to them now


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    #87
    Stevek101
    Registered Users Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭Stevek101


    Its hotfile. There are people complaining about it on different ISP's.


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    #88
    AdrianII
    Registered Users Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭AdrianII


    it certainly looks that way now.

    UPC gave me the green light.. anyone hear back from hotfile


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    #89
    jeffk
    Registered Users Posts: 5,841 ✭✭✭jeffk


    AdrianII wrote: »
    it certainly looks that way now.

    UPC gave me the green light.. anyone hear back from hotfile

    No, im around two days waiting on a reply from them.


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    #90
    johnser
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭johnser


    Just to confuse everyone again, I tried downloading a 50Mb file from HF this morning via UPC and was getting 7kb (which is what I've been getting since Saturday) and tried the same link from work and got 450mb.


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    #91
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,091 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    rapdishare in my girlfriends house: 1.7 meg
    rapidshare in my house: 100 kb

    both UPC 15 meg

    It's so slow here this past while

    996480222.png

    ???


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