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ultrak3wl · 02-01-2007, 00:30

This throttling is very, very, annoying.

I can sort-of understand them trying to do something about bandwidth hogs and am prepared to co-operate to a degree but throttled torrents are not what I thought I was paying for. It is especially irritating because my router software is a bit simple-minded and its own QoS attempts go completely haywire when the bandwidth rug gets pulled from under it by NTL's traffic shaping.

What seems to happen is that NTL will suddenly turn on throttling at the top of the hour - 18:00 seems very likely to see it occur. Have a look at this MRTG from last week; check out where the traffic suddenly gets chopped down to 25Kbs, Thursday is an obvious one also Monday and Sunday.

https://secure.crylo.com/klaatu_5-week.png

What can I do about it? Overall I don't use a lot of bandwidth (this week was a bit exceptional) but when I want it, I want it. I'm on their supposedly 4Mbs service, is it worth me telling them I will upgrade to whatever the next highest one is (will have to dump their expensive useless analog telephone service to compensate however) or do they just throttle everything down to that level no matter how much money you cough up?

02-01-2007, 00:30	#10
ultrak3wl Inactive Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1	Re: Torrent Throttling This throttling is very, very, annoying. I can sort-of understand them trying to do something about bandwidth hogs and am prepared to co-operate to a degree but throttled torrents are not what I thought I was paying for. It is especially irritating because my router software is a bit simple-minded and its own QoS attempts go completely haywire when the bandwidth rug gets pulled from under it by NTL's traffic shaping. What seems to happen is that NTL will suddenly turn on throttling at the top of the hour - 18:00 seems very likely to see it occur. Have a look at this MRTG from last week; check out where the traffic suddenly gets chopped down to 25Kbs, Thursday is an obvious one also Monday and Sunday. https://secure.crylo.com/klaatu_5-week.png What can I do about it? Overall I don't use a lot of bandwidth (this week was a bit exceptional) but when I want it, I want it. I'm on their supposedly 4Mbs service, is it worth me telling them I will upgrade to whatever the next highest one is (will have to dump their expensive useless analog telephone service to compensate however) or do they just throttle everything down to that level no matter how much money you cough up?