True Speeds Down On Torrents - Anyone Else Too?

[Thanh-BKK]

Hello.

Since end of last week i noticed a rather massive (>50%) decrease in speed when downloading torrents. My internet connection is a TRUE 512/256 and it has, months ago, been "upped" by them to 768/384. According to the speed test i am still getting that speed, but torrents have slowed to a crawl - i was able to get 85 KB/s down, 36 KB/s up.... now it's more like 35 KB/s down, 20 KB/s up.

I have asked in a forum on the torrent site i'm active and several Bangkok-based users seem to have the same issue with their TRUE connections, and not only on that particular site but on others as well.

Is anyone else (from here) affected as well? Any solution to this?

Kind regards.....

Thanh

[malcolmswaine]

I have a 3MB connection, but that's 3MB national. International traffic is 25% of that. Its been pi*s poor for 3-4 days and things are constantly timing out. Sooooooooooo bored with it!!!

One thing I have noticed in particular - and I don't know if anybody else shares a similar experience - when connecting over RDP to a remote machine internationally the connection drops after about 30 seconds. If, however, I pipe the traffic through a VPN the connection stays up. This is only in the last week that this strange behavior has been taking place. Not quite sure what’s going on ???

Edited October 16, 2007 by malcolmswaine

[Stef]

I also have a TRUE 512/256 connection and everything is normal (about 85 KB/s) when I donwload torrents. I use utorrent.

The file you downloaded may not have enough peers or have a poor peer/seed ratio. Try downloading a Linux distro CD and check the results.

Stef

Hello.

Since end of last week i noticed a rather massive (>50%) decrease in speed when downloading torrents. My internet connection is a TRUE 512/256 and it has, months ago, been "upped" by them to 768/384. According to the speed test i am still getting that speed, but torrents have slowed to a crawl - i was able to get 85 KB/s down, 36 KB/s up.... now it's more like 35 KB/s down, 20 KB/s up.

I have asked in a forum on the torrent site i'm active and several Bangkok-based users seem to have the same issue with their TRUE connections, and not only on that particular site but on others as well.

Is anyone else (from here) affected as well? Any solution to this?

Kind regards.....

Thanh

[Tung_Thaid]

Hello.

Since end of last week i noticed a rather massive (>50%) decrease in speed when downloading torrents. My internet connection is a TRUE 512/256 and it has, months ago, been "upped" by them to 768/384. According to the speed test i am still getting that speed, but torrents have slowed to a crawl - i was able to get 85 KB/s down, 36 KB/s up.... now it's more like 35 KB/s down, 20 KB/s up.

I have asked in a forum on the torrent site i'm active and several Bangkok-based users seem to have the same issue with their TRUE connections, and not only on that particular site but on others as well.

Is anyone else (from here) affected as well? Any solution to this?

Kind regards.....

Thanh

I noticed a number of my torrent trackers were closed "Connection reset by peer". I am with TOT. I use uTorrent.

The ones being affected were the more "well known" trackers.

When I use more private trackers - I don't have any problems.

Torrents now being shaped in Thailand ? Happens in many other countries.

We can encrypt the torrent - but not the tracker updates. Thats my understanding. So our ISP can 'see' them.

There is software out there that our ISP can get to shape torrent traffic.

So I dont bother now with torrents that use those trackers - and I dont have a problem.

In uTorrent - under GENERAL - under TRACKER - you will see if all your trackers are being allowed via their 'status'.

If you have a torrent that is using multiple trackers - some might be working - and others not.

If you have only one tracker - and its tracker status is 'working' - but your speed is still lousy - then try changing your DNS relay servers to find a less cluttered gateway.

[rainman]

Could it be that your firewall is messing up the connections? Check and see if the little icon in uTorrent is green at the bottom center.

[melonf]

I am a Maxnet Indy subscriber.

I have been struggling with FTP connections over the last few days too. With hours of retries for what used to take 5 minutes.

I do several ftps to different sites and they have all been affected so I don't beleive it is a lack of resoures their end

Is the frequent dropping of FTP connections related to the reported connection problems with BitTorrent?

[delboy]

I am a Maxnet Indy subscriber.

I have been struggling with FTP connections over the last few days too. With hours of retries for what used to take 5 minutes.

FTP downloads have been terrible for weeks. At first there was an artificial limit of 10kBs/sec, then that was lowered to 5kBs/sec, and now the download struggles at less than 1kB/sec until it times out.

My solution is to do all my FTP downloads on my dial-up connection, it averages about 4kBs/sec and doesn't time-out, much faster than my ADSL connection.

With bittorrents, most are struggling at about 5kBs/sec, but somtimes a torrent can reach 35kBs/sec. When I then check the IP addresses of fellow downloaders I always find that the big download comes from one connection which is to another Thai IP address. When there are only International connections in the swarm, it crawls.

[Prasert]

I am a Maxnet Indy subscriber.

I have been struggling with FTP connections over the last few days too. With hours of retries for what used to take 5 minutes.

I do several ftps to different sites and they have all been affected so I don't beleive it is a lack of resoures their end

Is the frequent dropping of FTP connections related to the reported connection problems with BitTorrent?

The data transfer in a (passive) ftp session is usually from a high tcp-portnumber to a high tcp-portnumber - the same type of traffic as bittorrent.

Very poor quality-of-service policies will not distinguish between those two and thus both are squeezed on bandwidth

Edited October 17, 2007 by Prasert

[melonf]

Thanks for the replies.

One thing that strikes me with such protocols, is that if you squeeze out the connection then it triggers resends. Thus my failing FTP connections end up using 10 times the bandwidth as it does when it is allowed to get on with the job.

Is it wise for the ISPs to squeeze protocols with automatic retries?

[distortedlink]

Edited October 24, 2007 by distortedlink

[distortedlink]

I am a Maxnet Indy subscriber.

I have been struggling with FTP connections over the last few days too. With hours of retries for what used to take 5 minutes.

FTP downloads have been terrible for weeks. At first there was an artificial limit of 10kBs/sec, then that was lowered to 5kBs/sec, and now the download struggles at less than 1kB/sec until it times out.

My solution is to do all my FTP downloads on my dial-up connection, it averages about 4kBs/sec and doesn't time-out, much faster than my ADSL connection.

With bittorrents, most are struggling at about 5kBs/sec, but somtimes a torrent can reach 35kBs/sec. When I then check the IP addresses of fellow downloaders I always find that the big download comes from one connection which is to another Thai IP address. When there are only International connections in the swarm, it crawls.

I am having (suffering) the same experiences. Live in Chiang Mai, my ISP is TT&T and a few weeks ago Maxnet automatically upgraded my Internet speed to 768/384, although one would never think so by it's performance.

Have tried numerous ways to increase the Torrent download speeds, including using BitTorrent, BitComet, Utorrent, Azureus and too many more too mention, nothing improved. I am 99% sure that the slow download and upload speeds are nothing to do with my client or router settings as all was working fine a couple of weeks ago.

It seems that MaxNet has toned down the speeds on Torrent downloads and perhaps so has TOT as well.

If these poor performances continue, than I will no longer have an incentive to use so called fast broadband Internet and agree with Delboy that perhaps reverting back to the old dial up system may bring better results. The best of the worst I suppose. Of course that is if the ISPs don't also downgrade their dial up Internet even further, which means the option left for a reasonable Internet service would be to upgrade to the top speed Internet at 1450 baht per month. All good business for the ISP companies.

Edited October 24, 2007 by distortedlink

[Sam125]

I am with TT&T and experiencing the same FTP problems. This week I ordered an upgrade from Indy to the Premier plan lets see what happens.

I am a Maxnet Indy subscriber.

I have been struggling with FTP connections over the last few days too. With hours of retries for what used to take 5 minutes.

I do several ftps to different sites and they have all been affected so I don't beleive it is a lack of resoures their end

Is the frequent dropping of FTP connections related to the reported connection problems with BitTorrent?

The data transfer in a (passive) ftp session is usually from a high tcp-portnumber to a high tcp-portnumber - the same type of traffic as bittorrent.

Very poor quality-of-service policies will not distinguish between those two and thus both are squeezed on bandwidth

[gharknes]

lesbien hard tramping torture ????????????????

sounds like some sick shit right there

[RKASA]

I v been outside all day so I had Ktorrents running.  In 8.01 hours it downloaded 968.6mb.  I only have a 256k connection  and several times today I checked the news.  So its was faster the 256k to get that done.  Log shows no local connections all nodes international.  In fact its still running full tilt as I surf and type.