hurray! Starhub is rank 3rd in the WORLD ISP.. OFFICAL

[_YM84_]

Singapore has done it again. Putting our small red dot in the world map.

Our favourite ISP Starhub is being ranked 3rd in the world for the most throttle ISP. Despite only a handful of survavor from Singapore, Starhub achievement should be widely applauded.

Let us give 3 cheers to Starhub and thanking them for their contract idea that locked me in!!

According to an independant study from Max Planck Institute, where it had asked volunteered users from around the world to test if their ISP had done any form of throttling Bit Torrent Speed, it appears that Throttling cames mainly from US (1st Comcast, 2nd Cox) and Singapore (3rd Starhub).

But Singnet, the other broadband ISP from Singapore might be pushed down in the ranking as the reports claimed that there isn't any findings of DSL company blocking BT traffic.

Most (573 of 599) U.S. hosts that observed blocking are located in Comcast and Cox networks. In Singapore, all blocked hosts are connected using the StarHub network. While we did observe blocking for hosts in 10 other ISPs (7 of which are in the U.S.), we did not see widespread blocking of BitTorrent traffic for hosts in those ISPs.

The table below shows the details of BitTorrent blocking for Comcast, Cox, and StarHub. For each ISP, we show (a) the number of distinct hosts we measured, and (b) the number of these hosts for which we detected BitTorrent blocking.

ISP Country measured blocked
hosts hosts
Comcast USA 788 491
Cox USA 151 82
StarHub Singapore 45 26


for the full report, see here:
http://broadband.mpi-sws.mpg.de/transparency/results/

[Bloodlust]

LOL... ranked 3rd in the world for throttling? Did they also do a survey on the price based on overall customer satisfaction and performance ratio?

[winguy]

waffak.. 3rd.....

[avanade]

hahah
quiting starhub anyway..
so makes no diff to me...

[bearbear801]

luckily i'm not using starhub

[richneo]

lol singapore is always in the news for wrong stuff

[sacredsoul]

Woot. Was always a Singnet user. You just gave me a reason not to change that in the future.

[eddy2099sg]

I don't do BT so it makes no difference to me. Can't really find anything legal to download there anyways.

[DevilCurseYou]

maybe they arent throttling enough

the oversea access dun seem to be blazing fast

[jaloon]

Not surprising since they are using similar (or should I say the same tools) as the top 2 ISPs on that list, and not to mention not even CC was mentioned but SH got a press release.
http://www.sandvine.com/news/pr_detail.asp?ID=100

[ohmygod1986]

Congratz to SH :s12::s12::s12:

[joel_winston]

They throttle too much until the oversea access become too slow to surf..

[michael_thm]

Starhub need to work harder.

3rd ain't good enough for us. Die die also must try to be 1st mah.

[FormulaJuan]

but I guess they still haven't found a way around for encrypted packets.

[Y_Shun]

Congrats!!!!!!!

[jittery]

yeah, im glad i quit MaxOnLag 2 years ago.

[kohlaiheng]

glad also my contract ending in June ... goodbye starhub! :s13:

[FireHobbit]

wow.. bad ISP..

[n95crazy]

doesn't matter, my bt is still as fast as ever

[Bloodlust]

doesn't matter, my bt is still as fast as ever
You are a laghub former staff, no? :D

[applefan]

throttle or no throttle, my bt speed is excellent

downloaded 352mb in less than 3 minutes. would have been faster but file size is small so no time to build up speed.

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/1875/11546083fu3.gif

[kivine]

may i know why is there a blue tint on ur screenie?

[applefan]

coz i changed the color profile...

[Bloodlust]

throttle or no throttle, my bt speed is excellent

downloaded 352mb in less than 3 minutes. would have been faster but file size is small so no time to build up speed.

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/1875/11546083fu3.gif

SH Ultimate?

BT is ok, let's see you pull it off with emule. :D

[applefan]

yup sh ultimate. couldnt care less abt emule coz what i need is avail thru bt.

[jumpmanz]

throttle or no throttle, my bt speed is excellent

downloaded 352mb in less than 3 minutes. would have been faster but file size is small so no time to build up speed.

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/1875/11546083fu3.gif
that's fast. where do u stay? :look:

[applefan]

north.

not wanting to be seen as showing off, i get fast speed most of the time. even faster than whats posted.

[Bloodlust]

yup sh ultimate. couldnt care less abt emule coz what i need is avail thru bt.
That's because emule on SH is completely CMI. Have a few friends on ultimate as well. Emule is completely throttled. BT is only good for new stuffs. Try leeching older files and you will find emule a lot better.

[croc1977]

throttle or no throttle, my bt speed is excellent

downloaded 352mb in less than 3 minutes. would have been faster but file size is small so no time to build up speed.

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/1875/11546083fu3.gif
what r u downloading ?? linux?

try 'ahem' software...

[applefan]

makes no difference what i am downloading. as long as its well seeded, i can get good speed

just tried downloading photoshop - tried 1 minute and speed jumped to 1.5

[wiShfulStone]

makes no difference what i am downloading. as long as its well seeded, i can get good speed

just tried downloading photoshop - tried 1 minute and speed jumped to 1.5

[IMG]
Erm, better censor that out

[applefan]

its ok lah. didnt even download it. tried for 1 minute and stopped and deleted the whole thing.

[Bloodlust]

[QUOTE=applefan;30120242]makes no difference what i am downloading. as long as its well seeded, i can get good speed

Anyway, you are entitled to that kind of speed since you pay >$100 per month. Unless you are a student got more discount even better. :D

Just don't screw the spider web when 1 day you find that your speeds drop severly. As an going to be ex-user of SH of 5 yrs (not including SCV era) I can tell you from experience that you can not take for granted what you are getting now.

And yes, for the past 4-5 days the speed picked up dramatically for BT. Zilch for emule though.

[liangtam]

The GREEN pipe ish still the best (vfm) for leechers ma

[The_Davis]

green pipe deserve to block out content lah :( so many leechers there

[mhafizhandi]

Green Fat Choke Pipe?

[confused]

usual tactics, starhub will artificially increase speeds whenever a computer fair or promo is near. And then when they have overbooked their subscription they will throttle, limit and lock you in for 2 years.

Very funny to see so many people kenna con every computer fair and promo and then whine about it after they gotten their PS3 or Xbox 360 etc..

However I noticed that the test did state that

1. All hosts which observed blocking did so in the upstream direction (i.e., when the client host attempted to upload data to one of our Glasnost servers). Only a handful of hosts observed blocking for downstream BitTorrent transfers.

So in other words, mostly uploads are blocked, downloads are not.

And also this test does not detect rate limiting yet (throttling) just plain blocking only so far.

[gundamz]

I thought what.. 3rd for throttling.. not a bad achievement for our singapore in world ranking.

[athenaesword]

makes no difference what i am downloading. as long as its well seeded, i can get good speed

just tried downloading photoshop - tried 1 minute and speed jumped to 1.5



its ok lah. didnt even download it. tried for 1 minute and stopped and deleted the whole thing.


erm dude. that's not safe to post... u'd better take it down and censor abit first...

edit: lol okay up to you

[yx2000]

Hmm.. I still can get 200+kBps when I download Fedora 9. Is that bad?

Using MOL Express here.

[PinZzz]

Hmm.. I still can get 200+kBps when I download Fedora 9. Is that bad?

Using MOL Express here.

i would say its quite ok for express... at least you are not getting X to XX+ kbps

[Jamesykl]

Singapore's broadband should reach the highspeed broadband status i.e., ten times faster, before 2015. Japan has the best download speed. Korea also is in the top few. But, we can't even squeeze into the top few positions. Technology is still losing out to the more developed countries.


I thought what.. 3rd for throttling.. not a bad achievement for our singapore in world ranking.

[liangtam]

Theres Samsung, LG, blah blah for Korea, and the well repute Japanese companies that does not already need mentioning, both doing R&D.
What do we have here? Creative? LOL(short of 2 char infront)

Given that said, we could only be follower to standards set by other country.

[Spongy]

*sigh* still have 18 months to go before contract expires...........

[cagivaz]

Hmm.. I still can get 200+kBps when I download Fedora 9. Is that bad?

Using MOL Express here.

I d/l using emule , i think 3days liaoz still not done.

I d/ling the live disc somemore.

On MaxOnline Lite (2mbps plan) :s27:

[badsector]

hahaha
glad i terminate SH after 7yrs usage

[boucyfirebal]

lol is starhub readin tis?

we dun wan free phone line
we want better speed!

and oh that why never sign contract!
free modem etc worth 500 is crap
beacuse u can get them cheaply! and if not happy or internally starhub got better deal u cant be hostage

[IWTRA]

Anyway, you are entitled to that kind of speed since you pay >$100 per month. Unless you are a student got more discount even better. :D

Just don't screw the spider web when 1 day you find that your speeds drop severly. As an going to be ex-user of SH of 5 yrs (not including SCV era) I can tell you from experience that you can not take for granted what you are getting now.

And yes, for the past 4-5 days the speed picked up dramatically for BT. Zilch for emule though.

Actually I do think that SH has different traffic shaping or quotas for different plans. I noticed torrent speed dropped dramatically after downgrade from premium to express, even with same upload limit.

[yodajedi01]

lol is starhub readin tis?

we dun wan free phone line
we want better speed!

and oh that why never sign contract!
free modem etc worth 500 is crap
beacuse u can get them cheaply! and if not happy or internally starhub got better deal u cant be hostage

THREAD DIGGER :s13:

[boucyfirebal]

lol google power

its gd to inform ppl abt myth of sh nt trotting

[Nichi]

Singapore's broadband should reach the highspeed broadband status i.e., ten times faster, before 2015. Japan has the best download speed. Korea also is in the top few. But, we can't even squeeze into the top few positions. Technology is still losing out to the more developed countries.
cannot compare with japan and korea la...

its mainly cos of their main language that most of the places they surf is locally within their country...

[liangtam]

Roll out slow mah, gahment dun wan foot the bill early either.

[sabirin]

Rank by paper or by the maxonline user?Untill now my internet speed not yet being solve.The customer advise me go to test bandwith using the starhub utilities webpage its shown unstable test.Untill now i still waiting for the answer from thier tech support.If starhub people see this thread please take note.Im thinking of getting compensation for this problem of internet speed.My purpose for subscribing ti starhub is all becouse of watching online video.Doest not serve the purpose.Anyone know how to ask for compansation from starhub.I dont mind giving back the mini pc anyway this mininote make me sick.

[stoopidbin]

they comparing within 3 competitors only.

[_m0r0n_]

Yesh...i knew starhub can really make it happen...well done, starhub~

[Spongy]

Rank by paper or by the maxonline user?Untill now my internet speed not yet being solve.The customer advise me go to test bandwith using the starhub utilities webpage its shown unstable test.Untill now i still waiting for the answer from thier tech support.If starhub people see this thread please take note.Im thinking of getting compensation for this problem of internet speed.My purpose for subscribing ti starhub is all becouse of watching online video.Doest not serve the purpose.Anyone know how to ask for compansation from starhub.I dont mind giving back the mini pc anyway this mininote make me sick.

You are mistaken. The thread is about the most throttled ISPs in the world and Starhub rank 3rd. Anyways, I have long given up on video streaming on maxonline. I am just waiting for my 30 months contract to end in 18 months time. :s13: