I have not used BitTorrent etc much in the past, I rarely watch anything on TV and movies bore me senseless usually but I was trying to download a few legal documentaries and music samplers and for whatever reason during Songkran my down speeds increased by a factor of 100 or more.

I am using Transmission on a mac and usually see speeds of 3-6K in the download, but during Songkran they shot up to 140-160K. My upload speed is throttled to 30K but if I change that it will always use the maximum available

I am guessing it is because all the govt. offices were closed!

My connection was noticeably faster over Songkran. Its back down the toilet now though.

...so it was not only me...great speed indeed, suddenly I see the advantage of Songkran!

Yep, it sure was crazy. I was getting 130 k bytes/s from one torrent - "Surface series 1". I initially just wanted the last few episodes that I missed, but as it was coming down so fast I decided to get the lot. Same thing happened at the 'other' New Year.

And now it's back to it's normal crap speed.

I wonder if their "anti-P2P" s/w crashed and there was nobody on duty to reboot it?

My ToT 2048/1024 is like clockwork Songkran or not, 3 to 6 k sec in daytime, 203 k/sec. kicks in at 2 am and stops around 7 30 a.m. I was told by them this is normal year round.

After my last experience with customer service and the know-it-all tech who had to come back 3 times and thought an imitation jet pilot's uniform gave him superiority over all customers even though he climbed up a bamboo ladder, I won't bother calling at all, next time will be to disconnect when we move out of here.

Same experience here...now it is slowing down again. I also use transmission on the Mac.

on BT a lot depends on the seed/leech ratio so it's hard to know gage..

i liked transmission for the simple interface, but it downloaded a lot slower than azureus. the only problem with azureus/Mac (not windows) seems to be that the actual upload is 50% more than what it says... e.g. measured with Activity Monitor the upload rate is way higher than what Azureus claims it is. I filed a bug on it...