Internet throttling

amkin25

Anyone know what to do i download a fair bit , but recently my i suspect my isp of throttling my line.
The speed test is still showing reasonable speeds but my download speeds are terrible compared to what they were a few months ago and it just seems to be getting worse and worse

I experience this before in other countries and i know there is some tests to check if you are being throttled but i couldd never find any proof.
But i know it has to be happening because the speed test is still showing me having nearly 10 mb download speed but i can barely raise a fraction of the download speeds i used to have when downloading movies etc.

Anyone else having this happen.

OneEightSeven

What websites or applications are you being throttled on?

dazdrog

use this website to test if you are

http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php

StaticNoise

What provider are you with?

Griffinx

UPC certainly seems to be throttling...speed dropped right down once it got to 800 kB/s on a torrent

MiskyBoyy

Griffinx wrote: »

UPC certainly seems to be throttling.

Have UPC 3 years myself and downloaded terabytes of stuff. Never been any slowdown.

ED E

kyub wrote: »

I'm doing tests here but fairly certain UPC are throttling me. I've only just moved to their 120mb package and speedtest.net shows me hitting 122mb download but actual HTTP downloads are going between 10 - 15mb while Usenet never goes above 6mb.

Its congestion, not throttling, everyone keeps confusing this. Latency and packet loss to central european servers has been terrible lately. Doesnt matter what protocol, its the locations.

Griffinx

ED E wrote: »

Its congestion, not throttling, everyone keeps confusing this. Latency and packet loss to central european servers has been terrible lately. Doesnt matter what protocol, its the locations.

Congestion wouldn't have caused the graph profile above, something suddenly cut bandwidth

dalta5billion

Griffinx wrote: »

Congestion wouldn't have caused the graph profile above, something suddenly cut bandwidth

As is the nature of peer to peer filesharing, peers suddenly leaving, attacks by rightful intellectual property owners etc.

See the Bittorrent Engineering Blog for more details on why.

OP, try a Linux ISO.

ED E

Griffinx wrote: »

Congestion wouldn't have caused the graph profile above, something suddenly cut bandwidth

Its a 5 second grid, thats just bad estimations from uTorrent or something else requesting that disk. You can see it immediately start to climb back, just how torrents are meant to. They arent throttling the bittorrent protocol. Run glasnost if you don't believe me.

Kur4mA

I ran Glasnost and it didn't find anything. I'll do some more checks but I don't think it is congestion. I'll try testing usenet stuff from my PC instead of my NAS later on to see if there is any change.

kaahooters

Look, its shaped and throttled, get a VPN, not a free one they have....issues,get a 1 month trial of a VPN service, you'll see a big improvement if you are being throttled.

srsly78

You would get a warning letter first from them surely? I got an AUP letter last year (acceptable usage policy).

Never noticed any throttling, sometimes stuff is just slow - a 100mbit connection does not mean you always get 100mbit download speed. Could be a housemate downloading as well, or peers dropping offline.

Pov06

kyub wrote: »

I'm doing tests here but fairly certain UPC are throttling me. I've only just moved to their 120mb package and speedtest.net shows me hitting 122mb download but actual HTTP downloads are going between 10 - 15mb while Usenet never goes above 6mb.

Ugh. Megabits are not the same as megabytes.

15 mb/s is 120 mbit.

1 megabyte equals to 8 megabits.

so 15 mb/s multiplied by 8 gives you 120 mbits.

MiskyBoyy

srsly78 wrote: »

You would get a warning letter first from them surely? I got an AUP letter last year (acceptable usage policy).

Never noticed any throttling, sometimes stuff is just slow - a 100mbit connection does not mean you always get 100mbit download speed. Could be a housemate downloading as well, or peers dropping offline.

Same. After my external HDD failed with all my tv shows/movies on it. I had to *ahem* reacquire them. Went well over the AUP of 500gb then. Thankfully, they removed the AUP altogether shortly afterwards

Kur4mA

Pov06 wrote: »

Ugh. Megabits are not the same as megabytes.

15 mb/s is 120 mbit.

1 megabyte equals to 8 megabits.

so 15 mb/s multiplied by 8 gives you 120 mbits.

My bad. I actually just had a D'OH moment there. :pac:

So the issue is with Usenet only it seems. I'm not bothered with checking torrents. I'll do a bit more testing later as it could be a problem with just my NAS so.

Kur4mA

In the interest of fairness, I've removed my previous post referring to my ISP as the culprit, as they're not. My NAS server is!

ED E

kyub wrote: »

In the interest of fairness, I've removed my previous post referring to my ISP as the culprit, as they're not. My NAS server is!

Suspected as much :P

fat-tony

Pov06 wrote: »

Ugh. Megabits are not the same as megabytes.

15 mb/s is 120 mbit.

1 megabyte equals to 8 megabits.

so 15 mb/s multiplied by 8 gives you 120 mbits.

Bytes are usually represented in uppercase B - e.g. 15MB/s
bits are in lowercase e.g. 120 Mb/s

transmission line throughput is measured in bit/sec - 100Mb, 1Gb etc
disk stats are usually in bytes/sec and represented like this x KB/s or x MB/s