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| Thread ID: 74093 | 2006-11-11 08:46:00 | Go Large: Anyone had acceptable p2p speeds? | Kindel (6640) | Press F1 |
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| 498102 | 2006-11-11 08:46:00 | I'm talking off peak here btw, but has anyone noticed torrents that have been fast for a long time being sort of 10% usual speed? I was on Xtra Explorer, went to Go Large a few days ago. The drop in performance is amazing. Slsk is a good test. Sources I usually get 25kbps from running at 2kbps average. I've called the helpdesk this morning, they gave me a case number and I await their response. The guy told me that "yeah some customers on Go Large are being screwed" and proceeded to blame the government for making them open up certain ports...which made little sense to me =/ |
Kindel (6640) | ||
| 498103 | 2006-11-11 09:31:00 | I can only give you my experience here. I was on one of the old "plus" plans that gave me a 192 upload speed. I have never been a great user of torrents, but would download the occassional TV programme and at a reasonable speed. The moment my (enforcred) change to the Go-Large Plan happened I could not download a torrent at anything greater than 3kB/s. What was worse for me personally was that Skype videoconferencing was unusable! I cut a deal with Xtra to go onto the Pro Plus Plan until these problems are sorted and I am happily downloading at 80 -100kB/s once again. Now I am going to throw this out to anyone that may wish to comment. The traffic shaping I assume is to reduce bandwidth usage? The Go-Large shaping means that most people will be uploading more than what they can suck down. One torrent I downloaded over the course of one week was 1.65 GB yet I uploaded 3.39GB!! Compare that to the 2.5GB I have downloaded at full speed with an upload of 500MB. The only thing that torrent traffic shaping appears to achieve is a slower download but with higher overall traffic consumption. Go figure. BTW Skype videoconferencing is working perfectly again. |
Imathome (9796) | ||
| 498104 | 2006-11-11 09:38:00 | I am on the Go Large plan and I get 100kB/s on torrents. But I also get 100kB/s on HTTP as well. | trinsic (6945) | ||
| 498105 | 2006-11-11 10:26:00 | I was actually getting about 30 kb/s (My upload speed is real slow, about 16k/s) until thursday morning when my torrents stopped working at all. I have noticed my upload speed getting slashed since moving to GoLarge. I'm currently trying to port forward my DSL 302G unsuccessfully. |
Truman (11428) | ||
| 498106 | 2006-11-11 10:51:00 | I can only give you my experience here . I was on one of the old "plus" plans that gave me a 192 upload speed . I have never been a great user of torrents, but would download the occassional TV programme and at a reasonable speed . The moment my (enforcred) change to the Go-Large Plan happened I could not download a torrent at anything greater than 3kB/s . What was worse for me personally was that Skype videoconferencing was unusable! I cut a deal with Xtra to go onto the Pro Plus Plan until these problems are sorted and I am happily downloading at 80 -100kB/s once again . Now I am going to throw this out to anyone that may wish to comment . The traffic shaping I assume is to reduce bandwidth usage? The Go-Large shaping means that most people will be uploading more than what they can suck down . One torrent I downloaded over the course of one week was 1 . 65 GB yet I uploaded 3 . 39GB!! Compare that to the 2 . 5GB I have downloaded at full speed with an upload of 500MB . The only thing that torrent traffic shaping appears to achieve is a slower download but with higher overall traffic consumption . Go figure . BTW Skype videoconferencing is working perfectly again . What? 80-100kB/s? What's your plan? What files are you downloading? If confidential just PM me OK? Thanks . |
PedalSlammer (8511) | ||
| 498107 | 2006-11-11 11:51:00 | He already said: he's on Pro Plus until they fix Go Large. What I want to know, is by 'cut a deal' do you mean they let you go on Pro Plus for the same price as go Large unitl it is fixed? Or you mean you just switched plans until it's fixed, but pay the full Pro Plus price in the meantime? |
Kindel (6640) | ||
| 498108 | 2006-11-11 23:45:00 | What bitorrent program are you using? You could try and turn on encryption in the program, if it has it, and see if that makes any difference. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 498109 | 2006-11-12 00:30:00 | What bitorrent program are you using? You could try and turn on encryption in the program, if it has it, and see if that makes any difference.I use Azureus and I did use traffic encryption. But the Ihug speed is around 20-30 and sometimes 40kB/s but never 100kB/s. |
PedalSlammer (8511) | ||
| 498110 | 2006-11-12 02:21:00 | What bitorrent program are you using? You could try and turn on encryption in the program, if it has it, and see if that makes any difference.I use BitCOmet and have had them encrypted for a while unfortunately. |
Truman (11428) | ||
| 498111 | 2006-11-12 04:45:00 | im with orcon and theres no trafic shaping here, some dude with xtra asked me to do a test so i got utorrent and when downloading a decently seeded torrent i got like, 350kb/s easy, not that it matters to me, torrents are a waste of time. | jesse_jax (9283) | ||
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