TOT throttling torrent traffic?

[AngThong]

I have a weird issue where my TOT ADSL connection "freezes" for a couple of minutes every now and then when I'm downloading torrents. Most of the time this seems to resolve itself within 5-10 minutes, but I've had to restart my router a few times to get back online. Once I'm online, download speeds are decent. Sometimes I'm fine for a couple of hours, at other times my connection "freezes" every 20-30 minutes.

 

I've tested a couple of backup connections with the same rig (including AIS 4G) and the issue seems to go away - it only happens on TOT ADSL.

 

It doesn't look like standard throttling to me since I get decent speeds when the connection is up & running, but does anyone know if Thai ISPs take any kind measures against torrent traffic? (Excluding public wi-fi hotspots - I know many of those don't allow any torrent traffic at all.)

 

My ADSL line does have the occasional hickup otherwise, but it seems to get a lot worse when I keep uTorrent running for several hours. I've set a low upload bandwidth cap (10 kB/s) so that shouldn't be an issue.

[sniffdog]

I am on 3bb 100/10 and not seldom reach 13MBs. It might also to do with the setting of your ports in your torrent client. Try changing your torrent client too. Make tests of torrent clients.

I use qbittorrent which gives much higher speeds than for example utorrent. Also good results with vuze and bit comet.


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[johng]

On ADSL  you need to make sure you are not saturating the upload side

try setting your upload limit of your torrent client to no more than half the ADSL upload speed

also  many domestic routers cant cope with the  (many) thousands of simultaneous connections that can occur with torrents..try just 1 or 2 torrents at a time.

[mtls2005]

How often or frequently does this happen in a 24 hour period?

 

Does all torrent activity cease for some period or does it wind down slowly and then wind back up?

 

I doubt TOT is dropping packets in order to control your usage, unless you are hitting some threshold that they apply internally via a "rule" which limits DL or UL volume over some period of time (like an hour)? Maybe something as simple as renewing the IP address lease?

 

[AngThong]

I don't normally download a lot of torrents, but I have over the past week or so and my connection has been dropping 10-20 times a day. Everything freezes up, i.e. I can't access the internet at all (browsing, e-mail, torrent, you name it). I sometimes leave my computer running & DL'ing while I'm not there, so it could be happening more often than that. Often it'll resolve itself within 5-15 minutes, but sometimes I'll reboot my router when I get tired of waiting (occasionally up to 30 mins).

 

I have 10/1 TOT ADSL routed through an Asus RT-AC68U. I've set my upload limit to 10 kB/s (of my total upstream bandwidth of ~90 kB/s). My router connects to a TOT ADSL modem in a space I don't have access to so I don't know its model.

 

I've decided to upgrade to TOT fiber (no other ISPs in my area), I'll see if that helps. Will also look into port forwarding on my router (no port forwarding set up ATM).

Edited August 30, 2016 by AngThong

[johng]

10 minutes ago, AngThong said:

TOT fiber (no other ISPs in my area), I'll see if that helps

 

It might give you even less international bandwidth

 

Is the modem in bridge mode  with your router  doing the PPPoE  connection ?

if you can access the router web page  see if its got a bandwidth monitoring function..maybe something/someone is maxing out your connection   someone knows your wifi password ? or virus infection ?

try with just 1 torrent  downloading at a time and not seeding any others.

[mtls2005]

I don't normally download a lot of torrents, but I have over the past week or so and my connection has been dropping 10-20 times a day.

 

OK, so before the past week or so everything was running fine? Have you been using this same network configuration for a long time? Has anything changed?

 

And is everything affected during these 10-20 daily drop-outs? That is, you can't access the internet at all during these drop outs?

 

Now it sort of sounds like an issue with your physical line, or possibly the modem/router. But then difficult to troubleshoot with small bits of info.

 

I'd look into the router - you should be able to connect to it - and take a look at the log, and the DSL stats. Can you elaborate at all on the mysterious location of the TOT modem? If that is truly outside your purview it may be a bit more challenging to trouble-shoot?

 

 

[Pomthai]

Sounds like upload speed is too high in the torrent client.

 

Goto a speedtest website and set the torrent client upload to a maximum of half whatever your upload speed is on the speedtest site.