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Chrysalis · 22-11-2005, 18:37

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Probably going through the congested amsterdam router, if possible can you paste a traceroute to and from the server please so I can see if I am right. You dont have to submit your own ip and the target ip in the trace.

I also have a small thoery that as some congestion seems to only affect part of the country that it could be the route that it takes from Leics and surrounding areas is different to other parts of the country, eg. we go through leeds and if leeds has congestion we might suffer as a result. That I am still trying to investigate.

At times I have thought ntl shape ftp traffic on non standard ports but it is hard to diagnose and my conclusion is I think they dont shape it but rather the issue I mentioned above, it is easy to think this because often a httpd download especially if from a common server will be coming from a proxy server which is on ntl's internal network and will be faster.

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Chrysalis cf.mega poster Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 12,050	Re: Do NTL shape FTP traffic? Can't get anywhere near my connection speed http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=36258 Probably going through the congested amsterdam router, if possible can you paste a traceroute to and from the server please so I can see if I am right. You dont have to submit your own ip and the target ip in the trace. I also have a small thoery that as some congestion seems to only affect part of the country that it could be the route that it takes from Leics and surrounding areas is different to other parts of the country, eg. we go through leeds and if leeds has congestion we might suffer as a result. That I am still trying to investigate. At times I have thought ntl shape ftp traffic on non standard ports but it is hard to diagnose and my conclusion is I think they dont shape it but rather the issue I mentioned above, it is easy to think this because often a httpd download especially if from a common server will be coming from a proxy server which is on ntl's internal network and will be faster.