Torrent speeds?

[oldfan]

Hello all
I'm just wondering what your experiences are with seeding/leeching.
I currently on the Ultra Package with Anikast...
The first week it was install (about 3 weeks ago) anything was freaking awesome, ever since then its been crap

I'm set my seed/upload speed to 10 Kb/s, I don't wanna hog all your bandwidth.
The upload stream is like a yoyo 1.00, 8.9, 2.2, 0.00, 12.9, etc, etc, after about 2-4 hours my connection dies. I have to unplug then plug back and start over.
If I use Force Seed, the transfer lasts longer, but the upload stream is still crap.
None of this happened in the first week.
I've talked to tech a 10000000000000000 times and always been honest to what I'm doing.
My argument is if I'm suppose to have 256 upload = 32Kb/s, and I set my uploads to 10Kb/s which is 1/3 of what I'm paying for.
Isn't that fair? Why bump my connection?

/end of rant

[W0FMS]

Have you hit the FAP? It may be possible if you are file sharing non stop.

Fred

[dbirdman]

Originally Posted by W0FMS

Have you hit the FAP? It may be possible if you are file sharing non stop.

Fred

One of the problems he has is that both the Acceptable Use Policy and Terms and Policies pages at Anikast are empty: "will be posted on this website as soon as it becomes available."

Nobody is able to tell him what they are, or if he is getting Fapped.

[mikeoverstreet]

Sounds to me like copper clad center conductor on the cable

[oldfan]

Originally Posted by mikeoverstreet

Sounds to me like copper clad center conductor on the cable

what the hell?

[oldfan]

Originally Posted by W0FMS

Have you hit the FAP? It may be possible if you are file sharing non stop.

Fred

Even If i'm tranfering 1/3 below of my allowed Bandwidth?
I was told my speeds would be slowed down if I was hogging the bandwidth, not bumped
I guess unlimited means, HAHAHAH we got your $500.00 sucker

[JAB]

Originally Posted by mikeoverstreet
Sounds to me like copper clad center conductor on the cable

Originally Posted by oldfan

what the hell?

See post #15 here

[dbirdman]

Originally Posted by oldfan

Even If i'm tranfering 1/3 below of my allowed Bandwidth?
I was told my speeds would be slowed down if I was hogging the bandwidth, not bumped
I guess unlimited means, HAHAHAH we got your $500.00 sucker

The point would be that nobody knows what the "allowed bandwidth" for Anikast is, because they haven't posted.

You have noted the "up to" 256Kbps, but that's meaningless, since zero meets the criteria - you are presumably a DirecPC veteran to have Anikast, so you should know that. Until they post their policies it is very difficult to tell, but I would not be at all surprised if they felt you setting a steady 80Kbps upstream was a violation.

You are sharing your 256K pipe with an unknown number of other users. If they allowed three of you to set a steady stream of 1/3 the total, all of the other users on that segment would be dead.

[dbirdman]

Originally Posted by mikeoverstreet

Sounds to me like copper clad center conductor on the cable

Elsewhere he has posted his testmy.net results, and speeds are just fine. It is just his Torrent that's getting throttled, and the nature of his cable won't do that.

[wmacarter]

Originally Posted by oldfan

after about 2-4 hours my connection dies.

I have had similar problems with Direcway but, it takes longer than 2-3 hours. Also, the FAP problem. I now use a scheduler with my bitorrent client. It shuts down before losing signal and resets the FAP. I have mine set to be on 3 hours and off 2 hours.

[oldfan]

Yes I'm a DirecPC survivor
What pisses me off is they bump me and lie about it..
"Oh there's a problem in your beam blah, blah, blah"
See they make it like there's a hardware or software problem, which is a pile of monkey ****. So stupid me is trying to fix stuff on my end...
Just send me a email, letter, teleagram or f'n smoke signal telling me I'm over using

[oldfan]

What type of upload/download speeds are you getting this way?
Also what client are you using? I don't see a feature like that on Azureus.
Lastly are your upload/download streams steady?

thanks

Originally Posted by wmacarter

I have had similar problems with Direcway but, it takes longer than 2-3 hours. Also, the FAP problem. I now use a scheduler with my bitorrent client. It shuts down before losing signal and resets the FAP. I have mine set to be on 3 hours and off 2 hours.

[JAB]

Originally Posted by oldfan

What pisses me off is they bump me and lie about it..

Now, now, "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."
-- Nick Diamos

Around April [02/25/05 ], WB stated on their web page:

"Our Fair Access Policy is designed to impact the fewest customers while helping ensure the best speeds for the vast majority of our customers."

"You are likely to avoid any limitations imposed by the FAP if your use is typical of the majority of Internet users and consists primarily of Web surfing and a reasonable amount of downloading."

Today's WB FAP says:

5.3 Fair Access Policy.....WildBlue Internet access is not guaranteed.

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If you want my opinion, I think those programs are "hogging the Internet bandwidth," and should be banned. And the last time I talked to someone using those programs, they thought "10 KB/s" was "10 Kb/s." Bits and Bytes are worlds apart, bandwidth wise. And I think one of those programs gives speed in KiloBytes/Second, not kilobits/second.

[oldfan]

lol, why would I pay $100.00 plus for dailup a month?
Azureus uses kB/s and so do most.
My point is Anikast doesn't have a FAP "Yet" and they keep blaming their fapping on hardware and software problems.
Don't advertise "UNLIMITED" without the fineprint.

Originally Posted by JAB

Now, now, "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."
-- Nick Diamos

Around April [02/25/05 ], WB stated on their web page:

"Our Fair Access Policy is designed to impact the fewest customers while helping ensure the best speeds for the vast majority of our customers."

"You are likely to avoid any limitations imposed by the FAP if your use is typical of the majority of Internet users and consists primarily of Web surfing and a reasonable amount of downloading."

Today's WB FAP says:

5.3 Fair Access Policy.....WildBlue Internet access is not guaranteed.

==========================

If you want my opinion, I think those programs are "hogging the Internet bandwidth," and should be banned. And the last time I talked to someone using those programs, they thought "10 KB/s" was "10 Kb/s." Bits and Bytes are worlds apart, bandwidth wise. And I think one of those programs gives speed in KiloBytes/Second, not kilobits/second.

[dbirdman]

Originally Posted by JAB

the last time I talked to someone using those programs, they thought "10 KB/s" was "10 Kb/s." Bits and Bytes are worlds apart, bandwidth wise. And I think one of those programs gives speed in KiloBytes/Second, not kilobits/second.

Oldfan is prone to using b when he means B, but in context it appears he knows the difference: "I'm suppose to have 256 upload = 32Kb/s, and I set my uploads to 10Kb/s which is 1/3 of what I'm paying for."

So, I read (I think correctly) that he feels he's paying for 256Kb=32KB (he isn't - he's just paying for the right to share 256Kb with a ton of other people) and is setting the stream at 10KB.

We still don't know if they are throttling him or something else is going on, but I would expect any consumer-grade satellite provider to kill a 10KB stream.