anything I can do about comcast throttling my internet?

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: 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

Aww, do you want some cheese with your whine?

 

[Xavier434]

Someone correct me if I am mistaken, but I thought that the only thing Comcast throttles is seeders? In other words, it forces connections to be dropped when you are uploading to someone else. Is this not true?

 

[Bryophyte]

:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 13 Kbps about 0.01 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)
Download Speed is:: 2 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 7 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 1 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/05/19 - 10:54am
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-Q58CJ6USR
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-EBD79JG2X
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/523.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Safari/523.15 [!]

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Bryophyte
:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 13 Kbps about 0.01 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)
Download Speed is:: 2 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 7 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 1 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/05/19 - 10:54am
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-Q58CJ6USR
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-EBD79JG2X
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/523.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Safari/523.15 [!]

LOL


:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 6669 Kbps about 6.67 Mbps (tested with 6144 kB)
Download Speed is:: 814 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 4437 Kbps about 4.4 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 542 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/05/19 - 11:01am
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-104LRQW3N
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-2ICMLWE41
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) [!]

 

[Tavis]

From what I understand, Comcast is just blocking the normal Torrent ports. If you use a different one, you should be fine. I'm on Comcast and do not have any problems. I let Utorrent choose my port when I first installed it.

 

[Jessica69]

:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 6434 Kbps about 6.43 Mbps (tested with 6144 kB)
Download Speed is:: 785 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 447 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 748 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 55 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/05/19 - 11:08pm
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-QGAB645CU
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-1I490CLET
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12 [!]


DSL, way out in the country, essentially in the middle of nowhere....and getting download speeds of exactly what the package we've signed for says we should get. Not unhappy with it.......

 

[troytime]

comcast seemed to knock me down to 60k/sec max for 3 weeks after downloading anything BT...even a linux distro

i tested the theory twice and both times i lost all my bandwidth (while my neighbors kept their 200-800k/sec speeds on the same http files)

dsl install kit arrives on friday, comcast can floss with my long curly sphincter hairs

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
oldsmoboat: How deep in the woods do you live?
rh71: Verizon FTW indeed. Too bad there is no FIOS here (or even Verizon DSL) because I live in AT&T turf. But then again only use I can see out of FIOS is hosting a couple game servers. I don't do P2P that much, and when I do, my 4.8 mbit is more than enough...

We have bears and mountain lions.

even scarier, they have oldsmoboat.

 

[thomsbrain]

If you are uploading at the same time (almost always the case with a torrent), and you are maxing your Comcast upload capacity (almost always the case with a torrent), then there is no excess upload capacity to handle the "yes, we arrived" packets related to your download itself. That means your download slows down significantly, too. Throw in tons of different connections all needing those "yes, we arrived" packets (almost always the case with a torrent), and you have a recipe for seriously slow downloads and gargantuan ping times.

Throttle your upload manually to a setting ~10 KB/s or more below your actual Comcast limit (usually 40 KB/s or so).

If you aren't already doing this, welcome to the internet.

If you are already doing this, then I don't know what to say, since I have never experienced anything like this on Comcast when it wasn't my own fault for saturating my upload capacity.

 

[skulkingghost]

:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 2589 Kbps about 2.59 Mbps (tested with 3072 kB)
Download Speed is:: 316 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 870 Kbps about 0.9 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 106 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/05/20 - 2:05am
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-HXW2UGDBJ
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-U2I3LSDFW
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0 [!]