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11-10-2006, 22:27

When I signed up to NTL, I was told:

"We are not going to start traffic shaping. We are going forwards, not back".

That was a condition of me signing up for 12 months. Having said that, NTL are still the best of a bad bunch IMHO. Honestly, you think NTL is bad, try ADSL...

Anyway, the trick with P2P is to limit your upload speed to 10/11k. Anything more and you get severe slow-down. I have tried everything, even built a pfsense based router and tried traffic shaping, but basically 11k is the maximum for P2P on NTL.

I'm on 10 meg, but it applied back when I was on 2Mb as well.

I think maybe 15k is where the traffic shaping kicks in, so 11k+overheads... or maybe it's just generally NTL crapness, who knows? But you can upload to your web space at 50k/sec and have no trouble browsing on 10 meg, so it's definately P2P related.

11-10-2006, 22:27	#105
mojo Guest Posts: n/a	Re: [Update] A request - do NTL traffic shape? (Yes, they do) When I signed up to NTL, I was told: "We are not going to start traffic shaping. We are going forwards, not back". That was a condition of me signing up for 12 months. Having said that, NTL are still the best of a bad bunch IMHO. Honestly, you think NTL is bad, try ADSL... Anyway, the trick with P2P is to limit your upload speed to 10/11k. Anything more and you get severe slow-down. I have tried everything, even built a pfsense based router and tried traffic shaping, but basically 11k is the maximum for P2P on NTL. I'm on 10 meg, but it applied back when I was on 2Mb as well. I think maybe 15k is where the traffic shaping kicks in, so 11k+overheads... or maybe it's just generally NTL crapness, who knows? But you can upload to your web space at 50k/sec and have no trouble browsing on 10 meg, so it's definately P2P related.