| Author | Message | ||
     Sayle Matthews (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered Guest |
I live in Ft Worth, TX and have Charter Communications as my ISP. I have been an avid World of Warcraft player for a while and have noticed ever since I got Charter that the updates take an unusually long time, i.e. a 20MB file taking an hour to download on a rated as 10Mb/sec connection. Since the Comcast fiasco happening I decided to test to see if Charter was doing the same thing. Since Ubuntu Hoary just came out I decided why not download it and put it on another machine of mine and using the torrent file I noticed about a 4KB/sec download rate at home. I tried the same torrent on a friend of mine's machine on AT&T DSL in Arlington, TX and his was easily hitting 60 or 70KB/sec. This seems to me be the same kind of filtering happening that Comcast was using. Has anybody else in the area had the same experience? | ||
| Robb Topolski (Funchords) Member Username: Funchords Post Number: 3 Registered: 11-2007 |
Just to clarify, what you are describing is not the same kind of filtering as Comcast is using. Your report involves downloading. Comcast's interference involves uploading, not downloading. | ||
| jsnide (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered Guest |
Well, it may not be exactly same, but the concept is very similar. I just tested my upload capacity and it was 476 Kbps which would give me about 60KBps in my bittorrent client. For the past 2 days, I cannot get more than 12KBps (96 Kbps) for upload with the torrent client. This is an obvious example of Charter throttling the connection for the bittorrent protocol and nothing else. | ||
| jsnide (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered Guest |
Sorry, forgot to mention that I am in Crescent City, CA but if Charter is going to create policy for interfering with it's customers' communications, then it will most likely be nation-wide. | ||
| John (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered Guest |
Just thought I would post as well regarding Charter - experiencing the same thing. 10-14 KBPS at home - 100-150 KBPS on Sprint Mobile Broadband. -Located in CT | ||
| Trey (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered Guest |
Just a "me too" post, except mine goes so slow I can not maintain a stable connection to the tracker and the download stops after a few seconds. I then switch to my neighbors' open wireless connection (I'm on a laptop) and experience speeds of 200 KBps (Their internet is the same speed as mine in other respects, according to http://www.speedtest.net/). BTW, I am in Dallas, TX, served by Charter in Ft. Worth. | ||
| Anonymous |
I'm in SLO, CA and I too am throttled by Charter when using a bittorrent client. In fact, my entire internet connection gets throttled after running my client over 1 hour. Basically, I can't open a web browser to Google.com without it taking 5 minutes. This is on any computer in my house. It's not the router, it's Charter. | ||
| Prowler (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered Guest |
Chiming in for a me too, though a bit late. I closed out my bit torrent client after Firefox pretty much refused to go to any website. I wasn't downloading, only seeding. As I said, I decided to close my BT client and lo and behold, my speed is back. | ||
| Anonymous |
Same as anon SLO above but in Atascadero, CA. Ive been able to download a TV show here and there with no problems, but after downloading Age of Conan (14gb, with thier downloader, a legit bt app) I'd get shut off completely the last few days if i fired up azureus. Reset the connection, keep azureus off it would be fine.. turn it back on and i'd get cut off again. Ive shuffled ports and turned rc4 encryption on and was ok last night. | ||
| Robb Topolski (Funchords) Member Username: Funchords Post Number: 21 Registered: 11-2007 |
So if you turn off RC4 encryption, you cannot use the Internet, but if you turn it on, you can? Can you try that experiment a few more times and see if it is really the case? Robb Topolski Hillsboro, Oregon USA http://www.funchords.com/ | ||
| Anonymous |
I just got banned from my BT site for poor ratio.. Im in the SGV, CA and i have Charter as well. My Dl time was decent but but my upload/seeding was very slow.. not sure of the rate. I really think Charter limited the usage.. | ||
| CWulf (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered Guest |
Same here, seems that after running a client for more than a half hour my entire internet connection slows to near a standstill, to the point where Firefox will time out loading websites. on a 10meg connection In Grants pass, Oregon |