just was talking to a support guy from Netway over the phone once again - of course, he blamed my torrent downloads for everything saying that they're oversaturating my connection, etc, by in the meantime he said one useful thing - that they're planning to upgrade their bandwidth in January. So I guess it can be taken as the admission that a) they're out of bandwidth, that's why we're getting all these problems; and b) that things may improve in January.

Meanwhile it seems that they no longer force all HTTP connections to go through their proxy, so as a temporary workaround manually setting a proxy in the browser to proxy.netway.com.cy:8080 helps to keep browsing usable while doing torrent-downloads at the same time.

it's more likely that at night bandwidth is just uncapped as there're not that many active users during this time. And when everyone wakes up and gets to the office - shaping gets back and speed goes down again.

yeah, right, I called 'em, too, and sent a number of emails since they've started to mess with http proxies last month and this month when they kicked in this shaping thing. Never got a reply to any email, though, and only heard "omg, impossble, it's perfectly fine here, you're the only one with this problem" kind of replies over the phone. So I guess they just don't care too much about it and/or don't want to admit that they oversell their bandwidth and can't deliver on their promises.

I'm thinking about moving back to i-choice and get Wavespeed's package, but the switch from primetel to i-choice is quite troublesome, so I'm going to wait for a couple of weeks to see if there're any improvement, if no - well, we all know where to get 4mbits now

of course they're denying it, PrimeTel was doing it from the past and their support was always denying that traffic shaping is taking place, too. It was confirmed before to me by my friend in PrimeTel that they have specific automatic bandwidth limits in place those kick in if you've downloaded more then a specific amount during some timeframe. And the situation with Netway now is exactly the same - you can do anything you want until you start to consume a lot of bandwidth, at which point they shape you down. They may call it traffic shaping, fair use policy or whatever else - the thing is the same. I personally don't expect them to admit it directly anyway unless you have an insider who can share how these things are set up there for real sitting in a pub with you.

I don't see Otenet providing services over Primetel planform, are they?

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it seems that Netway guys started to shape their bandwidth lately, see my topic here inspired by the very same problem with Fastlane. One guy said that we can expect some improvement next month, but I guess once they've started to do it - they won't stop, so it's time to look for another provider.

Nicosia, near Canadian embassy / Prodromou church / Yorki building. Post code is 1095 and they cover only two streets under this code, and only partially.

and they're related to Primetel's platform in what way? I thought they're dropping their own cables to your home.

PS: anyway - according to their website, my area is not covered, so no good

Well, it seems that Netway's Fastlane finally became not so fast and they're back to the same ugly traffic shaping things as they do on i-choice. And Primetel itself was shaping traffic like hell from the day they were born.
So is there any decent provider left on Primetel? I know that Logosnet and Spidernet both provide service over Primetel's platform, but are they good? I remember trying that both long time ago with i-choice and things were bad there - closed ports, capped down traffic, etc. But does anyone have any experience with them on Primetel? Both positive and negative experiences will be good to hear.

PS: damn, I wish Wavespeed come over to Primetel, but looks like it's not gonna happen