Traffic shaping everything (inc newsgroups)
I live in Swansea, South Wales, and usually with ntl my newsgroup access and a few websites run at full speed (1200 kilobytes p/s) on my 10meg connection.
However. Last night, Sunday 14th, my speed dropped to almost exactly 5meg speed (580 kilbytes p/s) and stayed there all night. Now me being the trusting soul that I am put it down to a small fault somewhere and ignored it and when I got home from work tonight, low and behold my speed had returned to the full 10meg speed. However. By 7:30 this evening my speed had once again dropped to 5meg. At this point I thought wtf and decided to call India. At which point I was told to try the usual bumpf like rebooting, downloading from Microsoft etc which came to the conclusion that I was indeed getting 5 meg Now, here comes the interesting point. The guy I was talking to told me that somewhere around 7:30 ish my modem had picked up a 5 meg config file. He then removed and re added my modem back into SABS and then advised of the old chesnut to wait 2 hours. At this point I was about to start shouting but then thought to check my speed. And what would you guess, once again I am getting 10 meg. Now wtf is going on here? For the last 2 nights at least ntl have been sending a 5 meg config file to my modem at around the 7 o'clock mark. I did ask the question as to whether traffic shaping was going on but was told no. I didn't check my modem config file this evening untill it was to late and by then the modem had been re added, but I will be checking again if the same thing happens tomorrow and update but has anyone else seen this kind of thing? Cheers all |
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How do you check your config file on your modem?
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I will try to download of giganews now and post a screen shot. |
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---------- Post added at 21:01 ---------- Previous post was at 20:59 ---------- Then again, just noticed you are in Chesire on STB. That cannot be changed so easly as you would need to provision each time. ---------- Post added at 21:05 ---------- Previous post was at 21:01 ---------- Just had it confirmed by my mate that still works in NTL that this is indeed correct. NTl are dropping 10 meg to 5 in the evenings in Swansea as a trial :( |
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I spent 3 years as a Engineer on Broadband in the North West covering training, Faults and new product testing. :) Take a look at this. NTL are traffic shaping however i have not seen any kit or heard anything that would allow them to change you to 5 meg. Also there are no config files for 5 meg that i have seen. Constant speed on that download was 9.33 meg. I know what kit they are using for the traffic shaping. I know where its located. I walked past it yesterday in my local site. Its not been changed in any way since it was installed that i know of. To make a point here. I have no problems with p2p being shaped between 6.00pm and midnight. My newsgroup access is not being traffic shaped and i am sure others can back me up with that. |
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Just ask anyone that works for NTL to read Nexus. Apparently it's all over it :)
I hate living in Swansea :P Well appart from when the 20 meg trial was happening. And the Gower of course :D |
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I used to speak to engineers all the time until I was molested and put onto faults for almost a year :)
I used to like adding modems on for a fiver no questions asked :) hehe ---------- Post added at 21:29 ---------- Previous post was at 21:20 ---------- I agree with your previous post btw. Yes p2p most definately cap it all but my usenet has always been spot on, but the last 2 days when my speed has dropped there has been no fluctuation whatsoever. 580 odd constant. Thats what got my spidey senses tingling. :) |
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Cannot log in so will leave it till tomorrow. However if its true then i will not be able to confirm it any way as if and i say if its true then it will be classed as company confidential and at that point i will unsubscribe from this thread.
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I wouldn't worry too much anyways mate, its only Swansea apparently and I'm sure enough people will notice eventually if it is true eh :)
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sign up to giganews new secure package and you can use a different port used mainly for normal http traffic ;) |
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