Which fibre ISPs do not throttle or data manage?
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I'm with virgin and usually get over 160 Mbps download speed but if I leave utorrent running in the background it drops to under 20 and if i try to watch iplayer it buffers.
Am I right in assuming that virgin is throttling my connection? If so which ISP's wouldn't strangle it like that.
Am I right in assuming that virgin is throttling my connection? If so which ISP's wouldn't strangle it like that.
BrownBottle said:
If so which ISP's wouldn't strangle it like that.
I'd recommend having a look at this thread which has some great suggestions: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...BrownBottle said:
I'm with virgin and usually get over 160 Mbps download speed but if I leave utorrent running in the background it drops to under 20 and if i try to watch iplayer it buffers.
Am I right in assuming that virgin is throttling my connection? If so which ISP's wouldn't strangle it like that.
In utorrent, you have to select the option to "Require encrypted connection" and disallow everything else as virgin servers heavily penalise unencrypted torrent traffic in my experience.Am I right in assuming that virgin is throttling my connection? If so which ISP's wouldn't strangle it like that.
you also need to limit your total upload speed to below 345Kbps ( 1.25Gb per Hour ) the lower you set it, the more margin you have to uploading other stuff during any given hour, as you will be automatically throttled at the point you cross the threshold which is 1.25Gb if you have the vivid 100 package
( https://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-management/traf... )
SystemParanoia said:
In utorrent, you have to select the option to "Require encrypted connection" and disallow everything else as virgin servers heavily penalise unencrypted torrent traffic in my experience.
you also need to limit your total upload speed to below 345Kbps ( 1.25Gb per Hour ) the lower you set it, the more margin you have to uploading other stuff during any given hour, as you will be automatically throttled at the point you cross the threshold which is 1.25Gb if you have the vivid 100 package
( https://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-management/traf... )
What's a torrent!! Stopped using those years ago!you also need to limit your total upload speed to below 345Kbps ( 1.25Gb per Hour ) the lower you set it, the more margin you have to uploading other stuff during any given hour, as you will be automatically throttled at the point you cross the threshold which is 1.25Gb if you have the vivid 100 package
( https://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-management/traf... )
maccas99 said:
What's a torrent!! Stopped using those years ago!
I cant be bothered to get a usenet subscription to get the most out of SABnzbd, and due to crappy Virgin throttling, and them blocking alot of the streaming endpoints kodi uses, i cant trust ill be able to stream any given content and any random point in time.
due to this, i also dont bother with netflix, as if iplayer wont stream, why would that.
Aint no skool like the ol' skool
SystemParanoia said:
In utorrent, you have to select the option to "Require encrypted connection" and disallow everything else as virgin servers heavily penalise unencrypted torrent traffic in my experience.
you also need to limit your total upload speed to below 345Kbps ( 1.25Gb per Hour ) the lower you set it, the more margin you have to uploading other stuff during any given hour, as you will be automatically throttled at the point you cross the threshold which is 1.25Gb if you have the vivid 100 package
( https://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-management/traf... )
I've adjusted the settings accordingly. I couldn't find "Require encrypted connection" but changed the outgoing protocol encryption to forced and disallowed incoming legacy connections, is that the same thing?you also need to limit your total upload speed to below 345Kbps ( 1.25Gb per Hour ) the lower you set it, the more margin you have to uploading other stuff during any given hour, as you will be automatically throttled at the point you cross the threshold which is 1.25Gb if you have the vivid 100 package
( https://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-management/traf... )
BrownBottle said:
I've adjusted the settings accordingly. I couldn't find "Require encrypted connection" but changed the outgoing protocol encryption to forced and disallowed incoming legacy connections, is that the same thing?
Yeah that sounds about right( I use transmission-cli day to day)
you'll be able to download from less peers overall, but you should be able to get full speed for longer without virgin crippling your connection.
SystemParanoia said:
I cant be bothered to get a usenet subscription to get the most out of SABnzbd, and due to crappy Virgin throttling, and them blocking alot of the streaming endpoints kodi uses, i cant trust ill be able to stream any given content and any random point in time.
due to this, i also dont bother with netflix, as if iplayer wont stream, why would that.
Aint no skool like the ol' skool
SystemParanoia said:
i also dont bother with netflix, as if iplayer wont stream, why would that.
Specifically on that point, because iPlayer is total rubbish and Netflix is quite astonishingly good. I'm not entirely sure how they do it - I suspect witchcraft - but I've found that Netflix is just phenomenal at delivering high-quality streams over low-bandwidth and unreliable connections.Gassing Station | Computers, Gadgets & Stuff | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff