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Thread ID: 105819 2009-12-15 17:56:00 Big Time Traffic Management - What's throttled and what's not? Chilling_Silence (9) Press F1
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839893 2009-12-15 17:56:00 Hey all,

I'm looking at doing some documentation around Big Time, what's throttled and how bad, what's not etc...

Anybody else interested in assisting? You'd ideally need direct access to a Big Time connection (I wonder why), and need to know a bit about TCP / UDP Ports, your connection details, maybe one or two other things ...

I understand that it can and *does* change semi-regularly, but I'm still interested to learn more about it and I thought I'd see who else is :)

Cheers


Chill.
Chilling_Silence (9)
839894 2009-12-15 18:43:00 I'd be keep to help depending on what I need to know lol. (I can probabky google what I don't know though) xyz823 (13649)
839895 2009-12-15 19:22:00 I'll give it a go. pcuser42 (130)
839896 2009-12-15 19:25:00 Yeah sure.

On this note, can anyone stream this on Big Time without it buffering every half minute or so? I normally use VLC.

wms-11.streamsrus.com
wratterus (105)
839897 2009-12-16 07:28:00 Yeah I could help out, mates flat/my new home in 2 weeks, is on big time. From my experience bigtime could have waster added to the end cos its that bloody slow.

But I am used to cable so...
hueybot3000 (3646)
839898 2009-12-16 08:27:00 Yup seems to stream fine here wratterus.

What happens if you use Windows Media Player instead of VLC? It's just I've noticed it's using Port 80 for streaming, and I'm beginning to suspect they're doing some kung-fu with identifying what applications are trying to use Port 80.

Example: I can download at around 20KB/sec through Google Chrome-4.0 Dev
Download through Firefox DTA (4 threads) at around 400KB/sec (100KB per-thread).

Same file, only difference is one is started 10 seconds later ...
Chilling_Silence (9)
839899 2009-12-16 08:47:00 Example: I can download at around 20KB/sec through Google Chrome-4.0 Dev
Download through Firefox DTA (4 threads) at around 400KB/sec (100KB per-thread).

Same file, only difference is one is started 10 seconds later ...

I have noticed the same thing.
xyz823 (13649)
839900 2009-12-16 09:54:00 Hey all,

I'm looking at doing some documentation around Big Time, what's throttled and how bad, what's not etc...

Anybody else interested in assisting? You'd ideally need direct access to a Big Time connection (I wonder why), and need to know a bit about TCP / UDP Ports, your connection details, maybe one or two other things ...

I understand that it can and *does* change semi-regularly, but I'm still interested to learn more about it and I thought I'd see who else is :)

Cheers


Chill.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind helping out at all, if I can that is.

I would be interested to find out the over all result of it.


Yeah sure.

On this note, can anyone stream this on Big Time without it buffering every half minute or so? I normally use VLC.

wms-11.streamsrus.com

Yeah, I can. Takes one buffer. Then stops. Then one more buffer, 22 - 66 - 100% then away laughing without issue. This is also at 10:54 at night, and is usually noticeably slower at this time.
Chris09 (15218)
839901 2009-12-16 12:01:00 I am trying to checkout the latest subversion of OpenWRT and it's taking forever. Network usage doesn't go above 4KB/s

I wonder if this is to do with Big Time or not
Agent_24 (57)
839902 2009-12-16 12:46:00 Hmm interesting - I have no end of trouble streaming it - just tried in WMP and it goes for around 20 secs to 40 secs then buffers again. Very frustrating. Any ideas where I could start looking for the problem? wratterus (105)
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