Most Interent Service providers are notoriously known for not only their false misleading advertsing, but also for their bad support servcies, and for lying, and falsey blaming their customers, the users for the supposedly main problem that the promised ISP high speed downloads are rarely realized, obtained now. ISP have over advertised gennerally their ability to deliver the capacities. and their rotoo often old, obslete servciers, equipment often cannot handle the loads.

“there are many safe programs out there that take a cap off of your file download bandwitdth limit, one i used to use is called “internet download manager” i believe. i was getting 250 avg kbps dl speed on some random website, wouldnt ever go above 280, but i used the program and went up to a consistent 370. can’t hurt to try it.” That is not the main issue.. the fact that the ISP providers such as the Canadian Bell Sympatico clearly are not providing their promised high speed is.. Most customer with bell do not have their promised speeds so they next switch over to a cable DSl.

“I would recommend that you look at your router first (if you have one). It may be faulty. This is often the case for screwed up internet connections. If you can, try to connect your modem (temporarily) to your computer without the router and see if that fixes the problem. (You will have to reconfigure the computer to use the modem in order to try this). The problem unlikley could also be with your modem, if it is faulty. Yet another place where things more likley could cause a slowdown is your signal strength that you are getting from your ISP. You might also have line noise causing your internet to go slow.” I would run a speed test Speakeasy – Speed Test Test the speed of your internet connection with Speakeasy’s speed test. http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ – For a high speed servcie the spped should be between 6000 to 1600 and for a low speed system about 3000 and if you are not getting these speeds complaing lould to the news media. your isp as well ASAP

“The following applies to broadband connections: Back again to uncapping; you can use a program called CableNut to uncap the limits that are built into your XP and your network card. http://cablenut.com/ Make sure you download the CableNut Add On Package and use the highest possible setting” is still only a marginal solution approach when the main problem is your ISP not keeping their promised high speed to you.

Optional suggestions such as -

Using a Flash Drive or a software to supposedly “Dramatically speed up any Broadband connection and to get improvements in performance from download speed, with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, ito ncrease your online speed with everything you do, even up to 500% faster Web browsing if using Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, while keeping the original perfect web site quality is sill mariginal… Optimizing the Windows and Browsers to give you faster and smoother downloading, browsing, streaming, e-mail, P2P, gaming and yes you check it with Web browsing speed and data download performance tests.
ReadyBoost is a disk caching technology first included with Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system. It aims to make computers running Windows Vista more responsive by using flash memory on a USB 2.0 drive, SD card, CompactFlash, or other form of flash memory, in order to boost system performance.

ReadyBoost is also used to facilitate SuperFetch, an updated version of Windows XP’s prefetcher which performs analysis of boot-time disk usage patterns and creates a cache which is used in subsequent system boots.[1] The Prefetcher is a component of versions of Microsoft Windows starting with Windows XP. It is a component of the Memory manager that speeds up the Windows boot process, and shortens the amount of time it takes to start up programs. In Windows Vista, SuperFetch and ReadyBoost [1] extend upon the prefetcher and attempt to accelerate application and boot launch times respectively by monitoring and adapting to usage patterns over periods of time and loading the majority of the files and data needed by them into memory so that they can be accessed very quickly when needed.A system with 512 MB of RAM (the minimum for Windows Vista) can see significant gains from ReadyBoost. In one test case speeding up an operation from 11.7 seconds to 2 seconds (increasing physical memory from 512 MB to 1GB reduced it to 0.8 seconds). [2]. Systems with 1 GB or more do not show a significant effect on tests to date. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefetcher

Using a Download manager that speeds up download connections by opening multiple connections to the source file is still a marginal approach now as well.

I looked at cFosSpeed, thats a consumer level app, I need something at the office. NetEnforcer may have gotten some rep in the past, but it isn’t worth a toss, whether you’re dealing with torrents or not.

In country side you might have 1-3 operators. It’s bad luck if you got only one option.

In the end it’s the consumer’s own fault, stop giving these assclowns your money and the whole problem will resolve itself.

Cisco router for $$$$$$, CMTS $$$$$$, NetEnforcer, proxy server, managed switches, etc…

Cash cow indeed, the equipment hasn’t even paid for itself yet.

Got anything else to add on how we’re screwing everyone when 4 people can hog the entire backbone?

If I could shape BT, I would lower the priority so it would not impact everyone and would use whatever bandwidth was leftover after HTTP, games and VoIP. With encryption, I can’t shape it, so my only recourse is to cut the modem back to 128/128, get the customer to cut back or just cut them off.

Torrents are designed to push the limits of networking. If an ISP does not understand this, but only thinks of cables and devices being their cash cow you will find yourself with a cow that just crapped on your meadow. Shit happens!

I’ll tell you right now, BT traffic is a thorn in my side. When I set it up on my machine, I made sure that I still had a low ping and decent bandwidth left for general browsing and games. It seems that just about everyone else puts 1000 connections and unlimited bandwidth. Somehow encrypted torrent traffic has overcome our provisioning and a 256/512 customer is downloading at 6Mb with a few thousand open connections. AT&T cuts off 2 of the 4 T1 lines due to abuse, so now 1 person has shut down the cable system as well as gotten AT&T’s attention with the sights set squarely on us from both directions.

So now we have 250+ angry customers that can’t get on, one customer that left uTorrent running while he went off to work/play/sleep/etc, and the wrath of AT&T, meanwhile everyone complains that ISP’s are throttling BT.

I fixed the issue with the customer overriding their bandwidth limits at the cable modem, however even with a 256/512 connection, they still had over 1500 open connections, which got AT&T’s attention again and locked up our router.

I fixed that problem as well and limited each customer to 200 open connections.

As of today, since I started cleaning up their network, BT has only brought it down twice. On that same note, we’ve called and asked the customers to turn down or turn off P2P, with mixed results. Some work with us, others have the same attitude found here, that they’ve paid for this service and demand it, full speed, 24/7, with low latency, even while they alone saturate our $2700/month, 6Mb T1 bundle. Those guys get cut off.

For the record, 90% of our customers have the 256/512 package, with 512/3Mb being the highest offered. 90% never go over a gig for the entire month, with about 4 people pushing a few hundred gigs.

It would work better if the makers of the torrent clients would work with ISP’s to prevent problems rather than try to constantly circumvent QoS management. You can’t run BT wide open 24/7 and justly complain about crappy service, bad VoIP and high latency.

The other side of this is legitimate uses of BT (linux, WOW, etc) are being throttled as well due to file sharing and abuse. While throttling 4 people that cause system wide problems, we also inadvertantly throttle the other 50 people that play WOW. Fixed that to, then uTorrent updates… and again we go.

I know it costs a lot for ISPs to provide filesharers with enough bandwidth to use bittorrent, but seriously: we pay for the service, the least they can do is tell us how much we get before we sign up!!

Alexa

Posted: 07 Nov 2007 11:24 AM CST
Add Sympatico to the growing list of ISP’s blocking P2P traffic. In response to consumer complaints posted in the company’s official forum, Canadian ISP Bell Sympatico has admitted that it uses bandwidth throttling technologies to impose limitations on P2P and file-sharing services during peak hours. This revelation is further evidence that net neutrality is eroding.

Any ISP prefers the 60 year old guy who only reads his e-mail to a heavy BT user. Bandwidth costs money, the less the end user uses, the more the ISP can pocket. In the end, we should be glad for all the “low bandwidth” guys, they are in effect subsidizing the high-bw users so the service is cheaper for us. A BT-specific ISP would have to be pretty expensive to cover all the costs (ISPs oversell their bandwidth by a certain amount, with 100% heavy users they wouldn’t be able to).

Try it!

Yes, tiscali is another bad company!!!!

Our admin, ask them to do it!!!!!

I downgraded my package from 8mb to 2 mb on the account of our phone line not being able to handle anything above 5mb, but my speeds reach 320 kbps on busy torrents.

XBL plays like a dream too, just can’t torrent whilst on Live.

I’ve thought about changing, but can’t see a reason why.

You’ve heard the saying. “There are two sides to every story.”
Such is the case with BitTorrent. A technology used by millions, both for legal and illegal purposes, it has been celebrated by a great many people – and has also be…

Don’t sign up for BT Broadband if you want to use P2P or BitTorrent.

http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs

In practice, this results in P2P traffic being choked badly between 4pm and midnight local – a generally used “peak” period.

While I don’t like it, at least our ISP are up honest about it. Eg,
http://tinyurl.com/2v2dy8
That ISP actually listed

I’m switching to “cobal” some new ISP in montreal 24mbit for 24.99 WOOT!
but its a month by month contract so once they have a bunch of clients i bet it will drop down to 6mbit like BEll (sympatico) the’yre using the same lines afterall…

I use Sympatico, and while the speeds aren’t fantastic like in Japan, upload speeds for bittorrent are acceptable and download is pretty good as well.
Only time when bittorrent was slow, overall Internet was very slow also, so I thought they throttled me down because I downloaded/uploaded so much (like they used to do before).
Turns out they had a technical problem and it’s wasn’t only me (I called some people to confirm that).

What I’m saying, Sympatico is more friendly to p2p that most providers in Canada at the moment.
I hope they will continue to do so… and in return, I’ll continue using their services.

I was a weak away from ditching my shitty 3mb/256kb DSL for sweet, sweet 10/1 Comcast Cable when the BT throttling started. Why switch when even the freaking Music and Movie industries are starting to distribute content over BT? It still might be worth switching for…over triple the speed…but I won’t, just to show them what I think of their stupidity

Two ISPs use a bittorrent cache – the common torrents download blindingly fast, but the less common torrents are very slow.

Eastlink throttles the hell out of their traffic, and peak usage times for the cable provider can drop your speed to a fifth of what’s advertised. They use Ellacoya’s switches, so it’s next to impossible to get around them – even with encryption, as I suspect they throttle encrypted traffic.

Aliant claim they don’t throttle, but since they are part of the Sympatico family, I find that claim dubious.

http://galacticcentral.org

and NG still work a treat.

Cable modem with 12Mbps download/1mbps upload for $56.95 a month. I often get total torrent download speeds 2MB/sec+ and the connection is solid 24/7.

I have had 5 other ISP’s in the past, and they are by far the best yet.