Traffic shaping gone mad?

[marko]

I ran this test at 11pm. There is deffo some shaping going on as we well know but not to bad at this time of night. I'll run a few more tomorrow at different times.

DiffProbe alpha release. April 2009.
Shaper Detection Module.


Estimating capacity:
Upstream: 1016 Kbps.
Downstream: 6993 Kbps.

Checking for traffic shapers:
Upstream: No shaper detected.
Median received rate: 858 Kbps.

Downstream: Burst size: 415-544 KB;
Shaping rate: 4032 Kbps.

marko...

[marko]

Just ran it again at 11.15pm while using newsgroups. News is dl'ing at just under 4mbs

DiffProbe alpha release. April 2009.
Shaper Detection Module.

Connected to server

Estimating capacity:
Upstream: 830 Kbps.
Downstream: 6987 Kbps.

Checking for traffic shapers:
Upstream: No shaper detected.
Median received rate: 746 Kbps.

Downstream: No shaper detected.
Median received rate: 2090 Kbps.

marko...

[marko]

Ran this at 7.30am today. Nothing else running.

Estimating capacity:
Upstream: 968 Kbps.
Downstream: 6988 Kbps.

Checking for traffic shapers:
Upstream: No shaper detected.
Median received rate: 858 Kbps.

Downstream: No shaper detected.
Median received rate: 5077 Kbps.

marko...

[superleeds27]

Coming soon will be the first release of DiffProbe, which will detect if an ISP is doing different forms of discrimination (such as delaying and/or dropping traffic) on certain applications (such as Vonage, Skype, and BitTorrent), in addition to detecting rate limiting.


Looks intresting, Discrimination of traffic!

Pathload at 9AM

Measuring Upstream Available Bandwidth
Measuring Downstream Available Bandwidth
Measurement completed.

Upstream Measurement (towards the Internet)
Available bandwidth is at most 0.40 (Mbps)
Measurement duration : 3.47 sec

Downstream Measurement (from the Internet)
Available bandwidth range : 1.82 - 3.63 (Mbps)
Measurement duration : 27.00 sec

For more information about available bandwidth measurement,
please see: http://www.pathrate.org

[superleeds27]

Has anyone tried:

Xunlei / Thunder Download Client?

Summary
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[Adrian]

As of lately it seems that connections to certain bittorrent trackers are being refused...

[muffy]

Measurement completed.

Upstream Measurement (towards the Internet)
Available bandwidth is at most 0.77 (Mbps)
Measurement duration : 29.57 sec

Downstream Measurement (from the Internet)
Measurements terminated due to frequent context-switching at server.
Measurement duration : 28.13 sec

At peak times

[Project Novo]

Hi

Traffic shaping is being applied probably due to KCOM seeking to reduce their IP transit costs and taking less bandwidth and traffic downloading capability from their transit partners.

KCOM's model is based on people NOT USING THEIR ALLOWANCES !!!!

Less throughput (download) by customers means the less their paying BUT still charging people for their allowances within the tariff.

I moved away from the wonderful KCOM and Hull and have a service from Zen - no shaping, no blocking, no IPLAYER problems - UTOPIA !!! -  

Sorry folks but if your not prepared for class action in Hull and complain about KCOM's illegal local call and line tying tariffing that OFCOM HAVE UNLAWFULLY ENDORSED you will never get any choice.

OFCOM WILL NOT ACT UNLESS THE PEOPLE OF HULL ALL ACT TOGETHER

Everyone needs to suport Fibrestream in its quest for WLR and LLU in Hull.

Si / Guy - only 5 months until Burtons shop window !!! - hope discussions are progressing well with the beancounters at that wonderful company   !!!!      

PN