anything I can do about comcast throttling my internet?

[Aharami]

Im sick of comcast throttling my internet whenever I DL something via bittorrent. Right now Im DLing a music CD put out by the DJ himself. Not only is my internet at a crawl, but im DLing at 50kbps when there are over 1000 seeders. It should definitely be going faster than that. If this isnt throttling, I dont know what is

 

[olds]

meh, start the download and do something else. That's how we do it on satellite.

 

[MegaVovaN]

Encrypting?

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
meh, start the download and do something else. That's how we do it on satellite.

yea but it pisses me off that im paying for high speed internet and getting DSL like speeds when it really matters

 

[Gothgar]

Switch to a competitor, tell them why.

 

[MegaVovaN]

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
meh, start the download and do something else. That's how we do it on satellite.

yea but it pisses me off that im paying for high speed internet and getting DSL like speeds when it really matters

Don't bash on DSL...I have 6mbit package and getting like 500-600 kb/s down off a good server.

 

[Aharami]

comcast has a monopoly in this area. no other choice for high speed internet, except DSL i guess

 

[MegaVovaN]

http://torrentfreak.com/how-to...ent-throttling-071021/


Which album is it BTW?

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

50 kbps isn't that bad

 

[nismotigerwvu]

Yeah, switch to utorrent and enable encryption....best you can do for right now...I'd imagine running peer guardian 2 would be a good idea as well for the obvious reasons

 

[legoman666]

Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
50 kbps isn't that bad

yes it is.

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
http://torrentfreak.com/how-to...ent-throttling-071021/


Which album is it BTW?

thanks.
it's a trance mix cd by some non-commercial DJs. Doubt most know of them but it's "GT vs Project C - Voices of Spring 2008"

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
meh, start the download and do something else. That's how we do it on satellite.

yea but it pisses me off that im paying for high speed internet and getting DSL like speeds when it really matters

Don't bash on DSL...I have 6mbit package and getting like 500-600 kb/s down off a good server.

DSL sucks balls! Great, you get 6megs. You know the reason you get 6megs? Because you're place is probably on the lawn of the CO. The other people further away are getting slower and slower speeds. I'm down to 1.2megs. :| DSL sucks balls! The great things about cable and fiber is if they can lay a line to your home, you'll most likely (>90% of the time) get the highest speed available. Unfortunately some sh!tty companies like Comcast do sh!t like this. And others like Charter cable are looking to spy on your surfing habits. :|

 

[xanis]

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
meh, start the download and do something else. That's how we do it on satellite.

yea but it pisses me off that im paying for high speed internet and getting DSL like speeds when it really matters

Don't bash on DSL...I have 6mbit package and getting like 500-600 kb/s down off a good server.

DSL sucks balls! Great, you get 6megs. You know the reason you get 6megs? Because you're place is probably on the lawn of the CO. The other people further away are getting slower and slower speeds. I'm down to 1.2megs. :| DSL sucks balls! The great things about cable and fiber is if they can lay a line to your home, you'll most likely (>90% of the time) get the highest speed available. Unfortunately come sh!tty companies like Comcast do sh!t like this. And others like Charter cable are looking to spy on your surfing habits. :|

Whoa there, someone is a little bitter. I have Verizon DSL at home and it's great. I'm in a somewhat rural area and nowhere near the CO and I get really good speeds.

 

[legoman666]

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
meh, start the download and do something else. That's how we do it on satellite.

yea but it pisses me off that im paying for high speed internet and getting DSL like speeds when it really matters

Don't bash on DSL...I have 6mbit package and getting like 500-600 kb/s down off a good server.

DSL sucks balls! Great, you get 6megs. You know the reason you get 6megs? Because you're place is probably on the lawn of the CO. The other people further away are getting slower and slower speeds. I'm down to 1.2megs. :| DSL sucks balls! The great things about cable and fiber is if they can lay a line to your home, you'll most likely (>90% of the time) get the highest speed available. Unfortunately come sh!tty companies like Comcast do sh!t like this. And others like Charter cable are looking to spy on your surfing habits. :|

Whoa there, someone is a little bitter. I have Verizon DSL at home and it's great. I'm in a somewhat rural area and nowhere near the CO and I get really good speeds.

Before I moved into my apartment, I lived in a rural area on the fringe of the range of a CO. No cable service, no city water, no sewer. We didn't even have the option of broadband until 2004. We were able to get DSL at a whopping 768kpbs. In 2005 this was upgraded to "3mb." I put quotes around it because the most we ever saw was 1.25mb. On average, the connection dropped about 10 times PER DAY. I hated our connection. Trying to play online games sucked huge cock.

I now live right off campus at a big university. I have the same internet service, but I get 6mb and I've only noticed it drop once. If I go onto campus and plug into ethernet, I can pull 70mb.

So yes, DSL sucks.

 

[tasmanian]

Originally posted by: legoman666

Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
50 kbps isn't that bad

yes it is.

Its average with comcast. I get 50-120. Every once in a while i will get one that goes at 300+. While when i download something online it goes to like 1200 kbps.

 

[Spineshank]

Comcast must not be doing it to me cause i can hit 800kbps on good trackers.

 

[pwnagesarus]

/shrug

I get 1.5 mbps on DSL, which is exactly what's advertised. I would go Comcast but I pay about $20 more a month for lower upload speeds and I'm happy with my down speeds. Plus when Comcast screws up everyone (90% have Comcast) in my neighborhood goes crazy. >_<'

 

[MegaVovaN]

JackBurton: Correction:
I pay for 6mb package but practical speed is constant 4.8

 

[jdoggg12]

This is weird... we have Cox and pay for the 5mb service. I was DLing a 4.5GB file via utorreny and my DL speed was between 1.5-2.1MB/sec the whole time. It was done in 50minutes! Thats around 14mb/s average, nearly 3x what we pay for! I dunno wtf was going on, but i was pretty stoked!

 

[MegaVovaN]

Originally posted by: jdoggg12
This is weird... we have Cox and pay for the 5mb service. I was DLing a 4.5GB file via utorreny and my DL speed was between 1.5-2.1MB/sec the whole time. It was done in 50minutes! Thats around 14mb/s average, nearly 3x what we pay for! I dunno wtf was going on, but i was pretty stoked!

go to testmy.net and report back

 

[jdoggg12]

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 8139 Kbps about 8.1 Mbps (tested with 12288 kB)
Download Speed is:: 994 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/05/18 - 1:43pm
Bottom Line:: 142X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.03 sec
Tested from a 12288 kB file and took 12.368 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Looks Great : 12.01 % faster than the average for host (cox.net)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-KMAS816CH
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0 [!]


Slower than last night, but still faster than what we're paying for...

 

[zoiks]

:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 4050 Kbps about 4.05 Mbps (tested with 4096 kB)
Download Speed is:: 494 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 357 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 44 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/05/18 - 1:52pm
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-1WHL47YTP
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-31J6VZR2O
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0 [!]

 

[spittledip]

I had Verizon DSL back in 2002 and the connection dropped so much I switched to cable and have never looked back.

 

[Pepsei]

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 13210 Kbps about 13.2 Mbps (tested with 12288 kB)
Download Speed is:: 1613 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/05/18 - 1:57pm
Bottom Line:: 230X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.63 sec
Tested from a 12288 kB file and took 7.62 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 114.45 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-LPUADR9N1
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7 [!]

I guess comcast here is pretty good.