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Originally Posted by munrobasher
Because as I point on in the thread, a bad transparent proxy could explain why HTTP traffic alone is throttled and not other traffic.
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So could bad weather or a bad cow. So could a million other things. There's no sane reason to suspect a transparent proxy over the million other far more likely and well known reasons.
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I concede there are lots of other reasons that could also explain slow HTTP connection/speed tests but if a network device slows down because it's overloaded, it tends to slow down all traffic.
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And there's no evidence to suggest it isn't.
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That isn't "banging on" about something. It was asking a question, admitting by saying "am I making sense". How very rude.
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You keep making up various random factors including things that don't exist for the slowdown.
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All I was trying to point out was that for one type of traffic to be slowed down compared to others suggests that there is either something (and I admitted I didn't know what) was managing that traffic or the target server/connection (or route to that server) was overloaded. That could be a proxy server or HTTP traffic shaping/QOS (and most firewalls can throttle traffic).
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Everyone knows VM traffic shape, and do so heavily. However you have presented no evidence to suggest HTTP traffic is being slowed down compared to others.
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I couldn't quite believe that speedtest.net itself could be at fault but it looks like this is the case. The Preston node (automatic choice for me) is struggling to get over 10MBit/s this morning but London and vmspeed.com report 50Mbit/s.
Whether the finger is still pointed at VM is looking less likely although it's still possible that the routing that's slow is still within VM's core network. I haven't got the energy to start looking at traceroutes.
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Preston server is on VM's network. If a VM customer is getting slow speeds to another part of VM's network, who would you point the finger at but VM?!
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Originally Posted by munrobasher
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As indicated in the other thread, the Preston server is perfectly reliable for anyone
not on VM.