o2 LLU throttling

lixxus

lixxus

lixxus

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as of recently. i have been downloading a lot on utorrent. and my speeds of 200-300kb on average have decread to like 30-80kb

i have even noticed a slow down in general speed, especially in peak times

are o2 starting to throttle their users, or is this just general congestion of the network. i am on the llu service and sync around 11meg

now:


the good days:


one of my best results ever:
 
Haven't heard anywhere else they have started throttling or traffic shaping, so it is more likely to be contention on your exchange than O2 throttling your connection.
 
Ive not heard of it also, my connections no probs and i dl a lot of stuff. Have you tried downloading a legit file like a game patch or somthing along them lines see what speed you get then
 
I'm on o2 LLU myself, i did see a drop in speed for about two weeks but i think that was problems elsewhere. Nothing to do with traffic shaping.
 
I have just done a test.

Modem sync
Downstream Rate: 8188 Kbps
Upstream Rate: 1071 Kbps

I have used 3 speed test sites



http://www.speedmeter.de/speedtest

Download speed Help: How fast can you download files.

Downloade Daten

497 KByte/s 3977 kbit/s

Upload speed Help: How fast can you upload files.

Your user data

106 KByte/s 848 kbit/s

Ping Help: Reaction time from you to the internet.

Ping time is measured

36 milliseconds

www.thinkbroadband.com

Speed Test Results
Date 27/05/09 18:33:51
Speed Down 6865.98 Kbps ( 6.7 Mbps )
Speed Up 893.19 Kbps ( 0.9 Mbps )
Port 8095
Server speedtest1.thinkbroadband.com
 
just downloaded ubuntu linux iso. using utorrent. the connection maxed out around 980kb-1.0 meg

so im confused now :S
 
I think your on the 8MB package and o2 is limiting your sync.

we need the full stats of the router to check this.
 
nah im on premium. 20 meg.

i cant access my modem stats because i have it set in bridged mode.
i think im going to change my modem to the netgear dg834gt...because you can alter the snr values for high sync. that way i can bump the speed up a little bit. just incase the network congests. it will even its self out during peak times
 
I hope they're not starting to throttle. I just activated my BT line, ordered Be Unlimited and will be messing around with stupid telephone wires just so I have a stable and reliable, uncontrolled connection!
 
Saltank said:
I hope they're not starting to throttle. I just activated my BT line, ordered Be Unlimited and will be messing around with stupid telephone wires just so I have a stable and reliable, uncontrolled connection!
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I've been with Be for almost 2 years now and considering I've downloaded 46GB in the last two days, I can assure you that they're not throttling.
 
They don't throttle, they just threaten to disconnect ridiculously heavy users (several TB a month) which atm is ridiculous, but in a few years when TV over IP takes off that'll seem positively miniscule. :]
 
Yamahahahahaha said:
They don't throttle, they just threaten to disconnect ridiculously heavy users (several TB a month) which atm is ridiculous, but in a few years when TV over IP takes off that'll seem positively miniscule. :]
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Hmm, first I've heard of this... I download **** loads of TB's of data every month, not one co******t from BE*...
 
It just sounds like congestion in your local area, if O2/BE decided to traffic manage there'd be an uproar on the forums.

As many people mention, please dont use speedtest sites like speedtest.net - they are very popular which means if they are overloaded, it will show poor results for your test even if theres nothing wrong.

Do a multithreaded download or like you said a linux ISO or two from a well seeded tracker.
 
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