Starhub capping Bittorrent speed?

[Cococokie]

I noticed for a few weeks already that my Bittorrent connection is painfully slow. Even with 100+ seeders and 40 peers, I'm getting 0.2 - 0.5kbs, even left for 2 hours and still same. How come?? My upload speed is fine, it's turns out normal.

My utorrent is well tweaked since i've been using it for more than 1 year. Did starhub capped all BT download speed due to the ODEX download pursue case?

I'm using Maxonline 6000, Anyone has the same problem?

1. I reset my modem (replug ethernet cable on both ends) - no use
2. i clear more space for download (10gb on hd) - no improvement
3. I defragment my hd - no use
4. i reduce my download task by a lot - other tasks (still 0.X kb/s) except one has 40+kbs.

[delson_tan]

Aiya... Even if there is 100+ seeds but all don't wanna upload much, you also will have slow download speed... BT is not exactly a good judge of speed.

[suntag881]

It's like that one. Agree with delson above. It depends on how seeders configure their clients. If all restrict upload bandwidth, not much you can do.

[suntzu]

Fully agreed with you! Starhub is doing a FULL Throttle to all P2P traffic.

I am on their Ultimate plan and they throttle my upstream to 200kbps.

Originally Posted by suntag881

It's like that one. Agree with delson above. It depends on how seeders configure their clients. If all restrict upload bandwidth, not much you can do.

[liangtam]

Lol, contradiction of statements...

[deskoh91]

I wont call it "throttling" but "shaping". starhub does not have enough bandwidth left for P2P programs after handling the prioritised http traffic.

though I have to say that BT is actually faster than youtube video loading for me. oh well.

[NYC]

as per my avatar

[Jwlng]

I'm getting max of abt 150kb/s down from BT on MOL Premium. So I dun think SH is capping

[suntag881]

Originally Posted by Jwlng

I'm getting max of abt 150kb/s down from BT on MOL Premium. So I dun think SH is capping

proves that it depends a lot on seeders and peers... how cooperative they are

[Syraxius]

i've been using BT since i got my starhub connection. forwarded all the ports correctly and it always worked.

all the while could hit 800-900kb/s on top100tpb torrents. the worst kind of speeds i got overnight was the 150-200kb/s kinds.

after october 1st maintenance at 3am, and till now, my speeds have been choked at 30-80kb/s, sometimes even down to 5kb/s (like now). that's not for one torrent, that's for literally EVERY torrent in the top100tpb list. it does NOT resolve even if the modem is plugged directly to the system.

[Cococokie]

Originally Posted by Syraxius

after october 1st maintenance at 3am, and till now, my speeds have been choked at 30-80kb/s, sometimes even down to 5kb/s (like now). that's not for one torrent, that's for literally EVERY torrent in the top100tpb list. it does NOT resolve even if the modem is plugged directly to the system.

Ya every torrent of mine is going not more than 10kb/s even those a lot of seeders ones. I can say i 'almost fully' understand how BT seeders/peers rate works to get good speed. *no offense pls*

400 seeders + 100 downloaders = you get super fast speed.
400 seeders + 4000 downloaders = you get ard 20-50kb/s speed.
10 seeders + 40 downloaders = you get ard 10-25kb/s speed.
2 seeders + 10-100 downloaders = you get 1-15kb/s speed.

Before october I can get speed up to my cap which is 300kb/s. I think SH is doing something fishy behind...

[RawMeat]

Originally Posted by Syraxius

after october 1st maintenance at 3am, and till now, my speeds have been choked at 30-80kb/s, sometimes even down to 5kb/s (like now). that's not for one torrent, that's for literally EVERY torrent in the top100tpb list. it does NOT resolve even if the modem is plugged directly to the system.

I encountered the exact same prob... i troubleshooted for weeks and nearly bought a new router until fellow singaporeans at bittorrent websites using maxonline all highlighted the same issue.

Originally Posted by Cococokie

Before october I can get speed up to my cap which is 300kb/s. I think SH is doing something fishy behind... .

It's no longer fishy, its obvious what they re doing. If I didn't have a contract, I'll terminate straight away. Singnet ppl still downloading fast n furious.... and they're giving out nintendo wii!!

[pessimist]

i agree with u TS..
suddenly for the past 2 weeks, wat used to be 300+ to 400+ kps BT speeds, now BT has reduced to 56-75kbps.. luckily my contract was long finished. Will be switching ISP, problem is to which ISP only ?

[suntzu]

Yes, StarHub will be aggressively throttle all P2P traffic in such a way that HTTP would be faster.

StarHub strategy is to "squeeze" - "maximise" their small Internet pipe so that they can make more money from their Subscriber.

The logic is simple, spend more more to BUY more sandvine box. Throttle, P2P - YouTube, Upstream, Block all the MegaUpload port, Block Port 80, etc.

Save money in buying more bandwidth.

Originally Posted by pessimist

i agree with u TS..
suddenly for the past 2 weeks, wat used to be 300+ to 400+ kps BT speeds, now BT has reduced to 56-75kbps.. luckily my contract was long finished. Will be switching ISP, problem is to which ISP only ?

[MarineX]

Seriously and honestly..

my downloads via torrent is still going strong 100kb/s-600kb/s i don't really understand whether you guys are just some people who are being paid by singnet to badmouth shub.. wierd.