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« on: November 17 2008 10:02am » |
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Hi all,
Did anyone noticed any issues with fastlane these days (I have the 2Mbit connection)? It seems that torrents are dropping from 230k to 50-60k after few minutes, then after some time (few hours) again is going up to 230k but not for long. This issue started 4-5 days ago, before that everything was working fine, I tried many things (bypass the router, tried many different torrents) but nothing worked. I called netway and they said that they did not change anything and that my connection seem to work fine.
Did anyone else noticed this ?
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efrem
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« Reply #1 on: November 18 2008 05:06am » |
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torrents depend from the international bandwidth and tha USERS i.e Seeder/ Leeches . you can't expect always a constant speed . some times you may download with 300kb some times with 80kb.
I recommend you that you should buy a rabitshare premium account (to diko mou elikse extes) for maximum speeds if you want fast downloads on games/movies and so on. torrents are not so relliable in terms of speed
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morhekil
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« Reply #2 on: November 18 2008 05:38am » |
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notmeit 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.
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notme
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« Reply #3 on: November 18 2008 11:58am » |
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Hi morhekil/efrem, thank for your replies
efrem, I don't expect constant speeds, but I should get around the same speed as the last 6-7 months which is nothing like this week, I didn't change anything so I guess is Netway's problem
morhekill, I specifically asked them about shaping torrent traffic and the guy from Netway told me that they don't do traffic shaping. From where did you hear that they started to do that, is there a way that we can prove it to them ?
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morhekil
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« Reply #4 on: November 18 2008 12:06pm » |
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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.
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notme
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« Reply #5 on: November 18 2008 12:14pm » |
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I see, thanks morhekill  The problem is that I don't think there is a better ISP around, cablenet maybe but unfortunately they don't cover the area I live |
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morhekil
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« Reply #6 on: November 18 2008 12:26pm » |
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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  |
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notme
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« Reply #7 on: November 18 2008 04:11pm » |
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When I called them they said I was the first one that complaint about slow torrents, maybe if all of us called and complaint then they will take it more seriously.
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morhekil
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« Reply #8 on: November 18 2008 04:35pm » |
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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.
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notme
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« Reply #9 on: November 18 2008 04:37pm » |
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I monitored it tonight and seems that exactly at 00:00 my torrents are getting full speed again, (same thing happened yesterday), maybe the shaping thing triggers after a specific daily download limit is reached
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morhekil
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« Reply #10 on: November 18 2008 04:48pm » |
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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.
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morhekil
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« Reply #11 on: November 19 2008 08:24am » |
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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.
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notme
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« Reply #12 on: November 19 2008 12:15pm » |
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Well.. better than nothing . today it seems that torrent download is a bit better, as far as for the proxies I will give it a try Thanks |
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