Traffic shaping gone mad?

[legendofphil]

Over the past week or so I have noticed that traffic shaping has kicked in much earlier than normal.
Today (Sat) I have noticed it from about 10am, taking my normal speed of 850KB/s down to 150KB/s.
During in the week, so when usage should be low, with people at work and kids at school my rate is constantly changing.
Before about 11am I think it was my rate was steady at 850KB/s but after that its all over the place going down to about 200KB/s.
It never used to be like this, I used to be able to do 850KB/s constant through till about 3-3:30pm.

I don't know if its the package that makes a difference but I am on the old top Max package.

[richardmyers]

I've noticed the same on Max Option 2, used to start being shaped as of around 5-6PM on an evening whereas now it is most of the time. Constantly changing from 250-300kb to 10-100. Line is stable (around 10DB noise on an evening), router is good (tried a spare, same issue), new ADSL cable and filters.

[bobthebuilder]

i am on max option 2 and from 9am today my speed as been no more then 2meg

slow downs during week from 4pm till about 11pm where i get about 120k a sec download speed


pretty rubbish

[richardmyers]

Similar today, 50-150kb download speeds

[bobthebuilder]

getting  poor 80k asec at the moment

[bobthebuilder]

same rubbish again tonight

[richardmyers]

Yup.

EDIT - surely with LESS people on the Max packages now we should be seeing less shaping, unless of course Karoo failed to mention that the new package has priority over all max traffic?

[dylan]

Perhaps a tactic to force people to away from the Max packages?

[richardmyers]

That has crossed my mind, but why should I pay more for a limited package and no speed increase? I refuse to leave my PC on overnight when it is on all day every day, increase my electricity bills and decrease the life expectancy of my PC by doing so... Just because the new Karoo packages have unlimited downloads overnight; no chance.

I'm seriously hoping that they do their usual trick, think up a new package every 5 minutes and replace their current packages with something more substantial.

[superleeds27]

Intresting, Normally through the day i have full speed up until about 4ish.

Im stuck at 25kb and its only dinner time wtf?

[richardmyers]

Full speeds for me at the moment.

[miken]

1.5mbps at the moment, its almost 2pm how can throttling need to be on there can't be that many people on at the moment. Most much be at work/school.

[muffy]

That has crossed my mind, but why should I pay more for a limited package and no speed increase? I refuse to leave my PC on overnight when it is on all day every day, increase my electricity bills and decrease the life expectancy of my PC by doing so... Just because the new Karoo packages have unlimited downloads overnight; no chance.

I'm seriously hoping that they do their usual trick, think up a new package every 5 minutes and replace their current packages with something more substantial.

Not to nit pick but you would expand the life expectancy of your pc by leaving it running constantly.

But to clarify this throttling is happening on Karoo Pro as well so it is not targetted at the Karoo Max users.

[richardmyers]

That has crossed my mind, but why should I pay more for a limited package and no speed increase? I refuse to leave my PC on overnight when it is on all day every day, increase my electricity bills and decrease the life expectancy of my PC by doing so... Just because the new Karoo packages have unlimited downloads overnight; no chance.

I'm seriously hoping that they do their usual trick, think up a new package every 5 minutes and replace their current packages with something more substantial.

Not to nit pick but you would expand the life expectancy of your pc by leaving it running constantly.

But to clarify this throttling is happening on Karoo Pro as well so it is not targetted at the Karoo Max users.

Cool Still increase the old leccy bill, not by much though from what I've seen but still I'd sooner download during the day when I'm actually liable to use what I download.

EDIT - find it odd that the Pro users are suffering also though, I wonder if they will upgrade their networks now that it's bucking.

[muffy]

Your having a laugh, upgrade the networks when they can continue to fleece us for the ones they have 


I think you have hit the nail on the head though, they have too many users and they cannot meet the demand.