Nildram, are they throttling peer2peer?

Tony Williams · 10 Feb 2007 at 16:21

I'm on Nildram's 8Mbps service and so far I've liked it however yesterday morning I noticed a huge slow down in my torrents. Normally on private trackers I can do 200kB/s> however my connection is sitting around 20-30kB/s down even on torrents with a lot of seeders and very little leechers.

I've not been changing any settings and I've tried out a few other trackers.

My exchange IS on the congested list but it's been there for some time and the speeds seem bad even in the early hours.

Just wanted to know if anyone here has noticed a slow down too.

FunkyT · 10 Feb 2007 at 16:23

I'm getting the same "problem" with Nildram. My exchange isn't on the congested list either

Tony Williams · 10 Feb 2007 at 16:48

Now downloading at 6.4kBps.

BTW my ports are correctly fordwarded.

Alexrose1uk · 10 Feb 2007 at 16:54

Afaik Nildram and Pipex have been port throttling for some time now.

Tony Williams · 10 Feb 2007 at 16:56

I know about Pipex but Nildram seemed okay even after they were bought out it only just started yesterday.

I might send them an email later on.

csmager · 10 Feb 2007 at 17:09

Nildram admitted to port throttling in around November 2006 - which is when (and why) I left.

Tony Williams · 10 Feb 2007 at 17:14

Why the hell do they have both a cap and throttle it's not right. I feel like just wasting bandwidth now.

FunkyT · 10 Feb 2007 at 17:34

Damn them!

Why do I sometime get torrents coming down at 50KB/s but most of the time less than 25KB/s? :confused:

FunkyT · 10 Feb 2007 at 17:43

csmager said:
Nildram admitted to port throttling in around November 2006 - which is when (and why) I left.

Where did you go tbh?

Tony Williams · 10 Feb 2007 at 17:44

Everytime I move to an ISP after about 4-6 months they slam on horrible traffic shaping. But this has only been 3, looks like a record!

I've emailed them and I'll see what they come back with. They'll probberly blame it on my router not being bought from them or the fact that my exchange is congested.

csmager · 10 Feb 2007 at 17:51

FunkyT said:
Where did you go tbh?

Entanet (UKFSN, to be precise).

No throttling to speak of (they do slow down everyone's connection in 0.5Mb increments if it gets really, really busy. They had to do that while they were waiting for a new Central, which I think they have now)

Large caps too.

Tony Williams · 10 Feb 2007 at 18:10

Hi Tony,

I can confirm that we do not perform throttling of any kind.

Are you experiencing slow speeds all round, or just on p2p?

I would suggest running some bt speedtests from
http://www.speedtester.bt.com and see if your speeds are consistently
slow or if your IP profile has been dropped due to a rogue low sync.

With regards to the payments your friend was expecting, that is not a
technical support issue so would need addressing by our customer care
department, you can contact them on 08701 600 197, or
[email protected].

They seem to say that they are not throttling. Maybe it's 'cuz all the little kiddies are off school and playing on CBBC till 4am.

csmager · 10 Feb 2007 at 18:14

Tony Williams said:
They seem to say that they are not throttling. Maybe it's 'cuz all the little kiddies are off school and playing on CBBC till 4am.

Well, they were back when I left:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17642505

Although some of the email quotes from Nildram in there do seem to imply they were investing in more capacity so that the shaping could be turned off.

tang0 · 10 Feb 2007 at 22:01

yep they throttle

i left (and so did loadsssssssssssssss others)

for aquiss (enta)

CYA nilly

FunkyT · 11 Feb 2007 at 08:15

Gutted - I joined Nildram in May (I think)... maybe I should pull the plug on them :confused:

jamjar · 11 Feb 2007 at 10:27

Tony Williams said:
I'm on Nildram's 8Mbps service and so far I've liked it however yesterday morning I noticed a huge slow down in my torrents. Normally on private trackers I can do 200kB/s> however my connection is sitting around 20-30kB/s down even on torrents with a lot of seeders and very little leechers.

I've not been changing any settings and I've tried out a few other trackers.

My exchange IS on the congested list but it's been there for some time and the speeds seem bad even in the early hours.

Just wanted to know if anyone here has noticed a slow down too.

I,m on Nildram and i,m getting 37 upload & 55 download ,sometimes higher if that helps :confused:

jamjar · 11 Feb 2007 at 11:07

Zen Support

Hi All ,I just got this email off Zen Support,have to say it was lightning fast !

Hello Neil

Thanks for writing to Zen Technical Support.

We do not do any bandwidth throttling or block ports which could affect P2P.

Hope this helps. If you have any questions, or if I can be of further assistance to you, please feel free to contact me.

Kind Regards

Suresh Rajendran
Zen Technical Support
T: 0845 058 9009
F: 0845 058 9005
W: http://www.zen.co.uk/

jamjar · 12 Feb 2007 at 19:06

csmager said:
Entanet (UKFSN, to be precise).

No throttling to speak of (they do slow down everyone's connection in 0.5Mb increments if it gets really, really busy. They had to do that while they were waiting for a new Central, which I think they have now)

Large caps too.

what is the service like on UKFSN are you happy with it ?

csmager · 12 Feb 2007 at 19:36

jamjar said:
what is the service like on UKFSN are you happy with it ?

Pretty decent. Although I've accidentally hit the peak time cap twice - they don't send a warning email, and you get charged the next level up + £5 fine if you do it. That makes my bill go from £29.38 to £47.01!

Jimbo · 13 Feb 2007 at 13:28

Use Utorrent and enable encryption.