O2 throttling or Not?

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Since joing O2 I've been trying to download files from Various file hosting Free sites, Filefactory, Rapidshare, FileZZZ, Uploadingto, and sendspace.

All of which are now virtually useless and taking hours to download a 100meg of data that used to take minutes.

I've noticed that they all show the following pattern while downloading, I don't understand why there is upto 20 seconds of inactivity at times and only a second or two of downloading :-

Rapidshare



UploadingTo



I've had broadband for many years and have never seen anything like this.
Downloading out of peak time is better and in a few cases I get maximum speed.

As all this started at the same time I don't think it's the file hosting sites doing it. I'm told O2 don't throttle so Who is messing up my downloads?

I did post a little of this in another thread but feel it should have it's own.

Is anyone else getting this sort of strange behaviour?

I would call O2 but as soon as you mention Rapidshare ect I don't think they would want to Know.

I do remember seeing an example of a throttling and the patteren was very close to what I'm seeing.
 
there is catagorically no throttling on the network. anything happening will be purely congestion based or on your line.
 
If it was capacity wouldn't it affect all downloads not just the file hosting sites?

If it was over capacity wouldn't it be just slow and not the on off pattern I'm seeing.

Interesting Uploadingto was just working at 100% while rapidshare still showing the unusual on of patteren.

FileFactory has a limit on how many connections it allows so speed should be quite constant.

I'm not saying it's O2 but something is happening which may be beyond the O2 network.

Maybe people who keep saying downloading is very slow are experiencing the same problem but just don't have a bandwidth monitor to see it with.

I don't now what's happening just asking questions to something that I haven't seen before on Broadband.
 
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im trying to download a file off of rapidshare now, and im seeing the same thing
its downloading at 368kb/s, pausing, dropping to 345kb/s then straight back up to 368kb/s
very strange :confused:
 
Sorry but that's not it this has been going on for three weeks long before the fibre break.
 
Agreed, This has been going on far before the fibre break from the middle of last week, To be honest, I hope some sort of traffic shaping comes into play just to prioritise ICMP packets to keep latency reasonable, nothing more.

This would help us online gamers out, who dont download much.
 
The thing is if it's a fault it may be affecting more than just the sites mentioned and the reason so many people are complaining of poor speeds.

If a file that should download in a few minutes take an hour people will be forced to download during peak times as they won't want to stay up until 3am to download a couple of files.

It does seem odd that it all stared at the same time and follows the UK peak time periods.

I know there are some very cleaver people out there who seem able to track these things back to the source and can tell if and where a problem is but I don't have the knowledge for that.

If it's the hosts doing it then there's nothing that can be done, I just don't know.
 
TiZoR said:
To be honest, I hope some sort of traffic shaping comes into play just to prioritise ICMP packets to keep latency reasonable, nothing more.

This would help us online gamers out, who dont download much.
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You really don't know what you're talking about do you :D
 
Sel said:
If it was capacity wouldn't it affect all downloads not just the file hosting sites?
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Depends what capacity you're talking about. If it's a local capacity issue then yes, it is likely to affect all downloads. If it's capacity on a link that carries rapidshare traffic then you might notice an issue with rapidshare, while downloads from other sources will be fine .
 
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According to O2 im geting 19meg...
When i first hooked up I was getting a REAL 17meg which I was happy with.

now im lucky to get 5meg, with pings of 100+, up from pigs of 20-30

My stupid o2 router (which looks like a frickin mackintosh) wont dispay it's sync speed so I can only use real world tests,

I was downloading from nvidia.com last week at 2mb/s, now its down to 0.8mb/s

not very impressed so far.
 
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come again! whats that then, and how do I do it please?
Theres nothing in the normal screen to display any stats worth looking at...
 
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Hmmm, I'm on Be* and seem to be getting shocking speeds from Rapidshare, Mega Upload etc. Only noticed it today after reading this thread.

Just done a test on speedtest.net and got this:



But I am synced at over 5meg. Whats going on?
 
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