Eclipse Internet - Traffic Shaping?

VeNT · 11 Jul 2006 at 11:20

hey, can I just check something with you guys,

I need to know if anyone else here has noticed a cap on bittorrent downloads when using eclipse internet.
trying to download the latest Puppy Linux ISO and I noticed that my down speed never gets over 25k/s, (1meg connection, and no my up speed isn't 100% either) also if I start another torrent the TOTAL for both sits at about 25k/s, now surly this can't be right, can they just start doing this without contacting me about a change in service?

VeNT · 11 Jul 2006 at 11:22

Strikeforce said:
if your on there Evo service then yes that has traffic shaping which is causing your problems, but if you are on the flex service then that has no traffic shaping.

I'm on flex

anyone else on flex getting this?

VeNT · 11 Jul 2006 at 12:03

FrankJH said:
not exactly , but according to Eclipse I am meant to have an 8mb line but according to adsl reports and btinternet tests I only have 3.5-4 so not particularly happy I have to admit

what service is that on?

VeNT · 11 Jul 2006 at 12:47

this realy gets to me, sometimes eclipse are REALY good, and then sometimes they REALY bugger it up like this, if they ARE trafic shaping on my connection how can I get them to stop? Are they legaly entitled to do this on my package?

VeNT · 11 Jul 2006 at 13:47

tolien said:
Of course they are.

realy? there was nothing on this in my T&C when I signed up 4 years ago!

and its going on as we speak, maybe I'll try a few other torrents to see if its just these three that are like that, anyone got any links to something big (ish, few gig) that I can try out, that they know has a nice high speed?

VeNT · 11 Jul 2006 at 13:55

tolien said:
Oh but there was, it just didn't say "We're going to shape you".

IIRC the OpenOffice torrent runs at a decent speed.

I'll go check that,

180k/s (average) 220k/s (max) at 2meg (flexed) so that seems better, must have just been those three torrents I tryed out, strange :confused:

VeNT · 11 Jul 2006 at 15:36

yeah, strange happenings at eclipse central
also some downloads are slower unless I use multiple threads (ie flastget/FDM)

VeNT · 11 Jul 2006 at 17:45

FrankJH said:
I totally understand this - and while you were not to know I am actually paying more per month than the basic 8mb line to avoid this very thing

I was told when I agreed that my contention would be the 2nd best -out of 4 options I believe - that they did and yet I am still getting lousy results.

I just think its a little steep for them to charge me more money and get just as bad service

what are you on?
theres still the pos that its either your kit or the line to the exchange.

VeNT · 15 Jul 2006 at 16:07

FrankJH said:
I am sure thats true - but I am guessing thats true of any type of connection?

depends, sometimes you can max out a download with one thread, but sometimes its better off with 2 or 3, sometimes 10, it depends on the connection and the place you download from, some download servers are setup to max each thread to 100k/s or whatever and or only alow one thread per IP/PC.
it seems that eclipse have somehow got a setup that maxes each request to a set speed, so while your total bandwidth is x, your max bandwidth PER THREAD is 1/5th of x