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Im using IBB in the Tralee area and my connection is a little slow (averages out about 800kbps download and 512kbps upload) My torrents were running about 150-200Kbps until Jan and have dropped dramatically to about 10 since. Could be a port blocking issue as i use Usenext also and am getting download speeds of above 200kpbs with them. Also I would suggest if you're on a wireless network to give your general location as quality varies wildly from area to area on all wireless networks. My nearest transmitter is 2km away and in direct line-of-sight on a mountain base so most of the slowdowns i expect are oversubscribing to that transmitter.
do you use a wireless provider? do you live in an area that you consider to have a high number of wireless users? The objective behind every isp is to gain as many subscribers as possible. Once a wireless isp achieves its max number of users to a mast that site becomes saturated and as a result the service provided is compromised. If I could prove it, you would find each of the subscribers here who complains about their service is in a saturated area and each one who praises it is in a outer suburb. So until wireless isps publically release this information then the chances of proving it are nill. But I know my deductions to be well informed.
Couldn't agree more Paddyshack! It's a wireless connection with Irish Broadband. just sent a mail to them containing my last 5 speded results but I sont expect a speedy reply. Nonetheless I have had much worse service from both Eircom and Permanet (dont even go there - their support is slow, extremely rude and shoddy) but I wont let them know that. I think a 2mbps contract should supply just that expect of course when contention is high and in full use but a consisent slowdown is not acceptable after all 'tis my cash im paying and should expect the advertised service. Right on though.. these figures should be published!
WIL, You have to read all the threads to see where I'm coming from. The shortened version is you probably live in the suburbs in an area where there are a low number of subscribers to either IBB, DIGIWEB, CLEARWIRE etc etc and get good service, move closer to the city to an area with high wireless users and the quality of the service will be crap! So enjoy it while you have it and keep your fingers crossed that your area remains UNSATURATED. In fact your probably better off keeping your good service a secret!!
Last edited by paddyshack : 21st February 2007 at 08:32 PM.
Hey im gettin the xact same problem on torrents download speed has fallen to 7kbs web works fine and their support has been **** their shouldnt be a port blockin problem as ibb dont block ports. I think its time 2 leave
I am using ibb breeze 2 mb, my connection was stable and download and upload speed was around 190kB/s but now download speed has fallen down to 10-30kB/s but upload is working fine. I tried enabling encryption in utorrent and other bt clients but no luck. Is it legal to block multiple incoming connections? Because i didn't find anything in theres contract.
I am using ibb breeze 2 mb, my connection was stable and download and upload speed was around 190kB/s but now download speed has fallen down to 10-30kB/s but upload is working fine. I tried enabling encryption in utorrent and other bt clients but no luck. Is it legal to block multiple incoming connections? Because i didn't find anything in theres contract.
It might be that you're using your upload to its max, and because of that, your bandwidth is being hogged. Try reducing your torrent client's upload speed to 3/4 or 1/2 of your top speed. This way you'll be leaving room for the downstream to pass.
For example, I'm on Esat's 3mb package with a 384kbit upload. Because it's ADSL, I get about a 330kbit upload on speedtests, which is about 40kb/sec. Capping my upload in µTorrent to 20-25kb/sec allows me fast downloads on all well seeded torrents. If not for capping my upload, I'd only be getting 10-30kb/sec, roughly.
Yesterday i tried bitcomet and my download speed has increased to 60 KB/s so i decided to limit peer connection per torrent to 60 and upload slots to 4 but then my upload speed decreased to 10KB/s and download speed still was 60KB/s. I will try limiting upload but i do not thing it will help.
Thanks for reply!
I found out that limiting upload speed to 25 in bitcomet increases my download speed up to 100 kB/s but in utorrent it doesn't work this way.
Thanks a lot for help and hope that speed will not drop, but with IBB you can expect everything
I'm using the uTorrent with 3mb Breeze and always get full speed for D/U.
much better work with Encripted connection, but IBB officialy do not block P2P traffic.
do you use a wireless provider? do you live in an area that you consider to have a high number of wireless users? The objective behind every isp is to gain as many subscribers as possible. Once a wireless isp achieves its max number of users to a mast that site becomes saturated and as a result the service provided is compromised. If I could prove it, you would find each of the subscribers here who complains about their service is in a saturated area and each one who praises it is in a outer suburb. So until wireless isps publically release this information then the chances of proving it are nill. But I know my deductions to be well informed.
When highsites become saturated as you put it to such a point that sector is closed and no customers are signed up in that area as the service would become vastly degraded. We do have acceptable limits that we apply and if the bandwidth being supplied to a highsite is almost at it's peak due to various speeds / contention ratios in the area using the connection to almost capacity the sector is closed and no additional customers will be connected...
I can't speak for any other wireless ISP but I can speak for Irish Broadband and this is procedure that's followed.
Bit of a necro post, but anyone still having issues with torrent speeds on the Fixed IBB lines (3meg)?
Just moved to them last week from Digiweb (to avoid the "rolling quota"!), and getting pretty aweful 40Kbs or so d/l from trackes that once gave me 320 on the 3meg Digiweb line :/
Any help appreciated, I've tried turning on encryption on both Az and UTorrent but it didn't make a difference
To be honest, sometimes there are periods when speeds can be slow. Eg wouldn't go above 10-50 kbps for days/weeks etc... I was exasperated and on the verge of cancelling my contract when they shot up again. Going through a period here where it's very fast - can get close to 300 kbps.
Hmmm, thanks for the reply, maybe I should ring them up and see if it improves the speeds any!
(The area I'm in seems to have a very low usage of BB, as I said on digiweb speeds weren't the issue just the monthly quota, so I hope moving to the fixed IBB line won't be a mistake.)
I've rang them a couple of times. They indicated that you'd be contacted if you were downloading an excessive amount. It's a tricky one when speaking to them about torrents as let's be honest, it not something they're keen to support.
Over the years I've been with them, like i said, there are times when my speeds really wouldn't go above 10 kbps. Then, suddenly I go through times when it's 300 kbps. I'm sure there's something going on somewhere, whether they're responsible is another thing (the engineers will always tell you they don't throttle).
Despite this, the lack of a download limit is a godsend. 30-40gb monthly download limits are an absolute joke!!
Although there are some legit uses for torrents, a good example (since the game is so popular) World of Warcraft uses torrents to distribute its patches!
I'll keep tweaking this week and see what happens, appreciate you input on it!
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