Rant: Orcon and P2P

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I am sick and tired of watching my torrents crawl. Does anyone here use
Orcon with Bittorrent and get 1 Kb or less per second??

I don't download Warez / other crap but I do download the odd TV episode /
documentary that I miss.
Given that it now takes about a week to download a single episode I am
thinking of jumping ship to Actrix or some other ISP.

Orcon, you suck, give what you advertised (unlimited 256K) or please,
please, please have a daily limit and THEN throttle.
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I am an orcon user, but they are not my ISP at the moment. They provide the
bandwidth I use and my BTLORD torrents rock at about 17kbs


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guess it sucks for you then i get 70kb then downloading the odd tv show ;-)

 

They now advertise as "deprioritising p2p traffic"

My torrents also crawl.. try other ports first though

 

Yup...

 

Why don't you urge your ISP to get a real bandwidth management product
like the one made by www.etinc.com? Then you won't have some arbitrary
global setting for p2p that lets you do what you want to do with the
bandwidth you are supposed to get?

 

Remember that the speed is dictated by the slowest part of the connection.
You may be grabbing data from 56K people who are on the end of phone lines,
20Kms from the exchange

Mine goes up and down.

PAM.

 

I'm on Orcon UBS and Azureus is rocking. I did change the port
however.

 

Hi, to what port? I have tried "random port" under shareaza but still get
the bit-dribble...

 

Well if I tell you, Orcon might start to throttle that one as well

 

lol.... can I guess?? 6755?

 

Just a couple of thoughts.

Have you got the BitToirrent ports open? 6881-6889 and port forwarding
enabled for your firewall?

 

It won't be that. The last thing to do is to use those port ranges as they
are severely shaped.

 

Thanks for your help but I *do* think that it is Orcon. It was working fine
and then about a month ago just stopped working. I think that they are
shaping the P2P traffic...

 

I bet you are uploading at 256kb. Which makes the whole throttling
thing a joke as you end up uploading 3 times more than you download..

 

I guess you are running the program at peak time and then saying its
slow. I guess if you leave it runing overnight (as your UBS is on 24
hours a day) it will speed up alot during the night

Thanks