Is VM slowing down traffic

ultimate · 12-05-2011, 16:48

Speed test shows my speed is good, but downloading from Rapidshare seems to be very slow in the afternoon and evening, some files are coming down as though I have a dial up modem!!! I cannot tell whether it is Rapidshare being slow or VM deliberating slowing traffic from file hosts. This happens yesterday and today.

Anybody in the know?

craigj2k12 · 12-05-2011, 17:57

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Originally Posted by ultimate

Speed test shows my speed is good, but downloading from Rapidshare seems to be very slow in the afternoon and evening, some files are coming down as though I have a dial up modem!!! I cannot tell whether it is Rapidshare being slow or VM deliberating slowing traffic from file hosts. This happens yesterday and today.

Anybody in the know?

rapidshare should be slowed as is HTTP

can you post a speedtest, ping test and your modem stats, to see if there is anything wrong there.

VM slow peer to peer downloads, but as rapidshare isnt p2p it shouldnt be slowed, interesting to say the least, they may have started managing file upload sites

ultimate · 12-05-2011, 19:48

This is the result of a speed test from speedtest.net

Ping Test:

Modem:

Cable Modem Downstream
Downstream Lock : Locked Downstream
Channel Id : 40
Downstream Frequency : 322750000 Hz
Downstream Modulation : QAM256
Downstream Symbol Rate : 6952 Ksym/sec
Downstream Interleave Depth : taps12Increment17
Downstream Receive Power Level : 0.7 dBmV
Downstream SNR : 39.3 dB

Cable Modem Upstream
Upstream Lock : Locked
Upstream Channel ID : 5
Upstream Frequency : 45800000 Hz
Upstream Modulation : QPSK
Upstream Symbol Rate : 5120 Ksym/sec
Upstream transmit Power Level : 46.2 dBmV
Upstream Mini-Slot Size : 4

These were taken around 8:30pm just now. tried downloading from RS, some files hit 600kps, one or two only 90kps. This morning single file download was hitting 1750 kps.

Thanks

nick2xuk · 12-05-2011, 19:50

Do you have a premium Rapidshare account or are you just using a free option?

ultimate · 12-05-2011, 20:03

I have a premium account.

Further more, when I download a number of files together, the cumulative speed is pretty good, sometimes hitting 2200kps, but individually, some files are only coming in at less than 100kps, I think may be the RS individual servers are slow.

Ignitionnet · 12-05-2011, 20:05

Sounds like a fault rather than intentional however that said a number of ISPs do indeed slow down Rapidshare, etc, as they are quite bandwidth heavy and, in common with P2P and newsgroups, most of the content is dicey. A fairly easy target for shaping if trying to control bandwidth.

craigj2k12 · 12-05-2011, 20:49

could be another VM way to ease peak bandwidth on the cheap

Bonglet · 13-05-2011, 00:18

I noticed mine has been playing up this past week and a bit from 3pm onwards, console keeps disconnecting on multiplayer and general http browsing is crawling at times ;S.

Chrysalis · 13-05-2011, 09:16

i noticed the same with filesonic however didnt think much of it VM side as they seem to have a bad rep anyway, download speed after 1am was 1.8meg/sec during evening under 40kB/sec.