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Port throttling?

I've recently switched to the Pipex Go account, which offered unlimited 2meg for a little more than the Solo 1000 account I was on for about 15 months previously. A number of friends have switched too, so we have a frame of reference for various locations around the country.

We all have a suspician that Pipex are throttling specific ports, relating to torrent etc.

Can anyone else attest to this? It's of some concern, as we are now bound to new 12 month contracts for this 2meg service.
 
Iam not a pipex user but i think they shape their traffic and give priorities over gaming etc and therefore you will get slow downloads on torrents
 
I'm getting 20kbs on a 1 meg connection now.I tried asking them about it and they denied port throttling.But to be honest the kid on the other end didn't know what bit torrent was so he wont be privvy to the throttling game.
Download speedtest was 97.6 kbs so thats ok.
Port throttling for sure.
 
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Well, as far as I can ascertain, if you're not using Azureus/micro torent's packet encryption, and presumably connecting to peers who are also using it, torrents are indeed throttled to 20k/sec.

Brilliant, stuck with this for another 12 months ¬_¬
 
well most people have been complaining about this in adslguide forums, i am a pipex user but about to leave them just because of the very reason. Good service but some times they do weird things.
 
I moved from pipex to plusnet then jumped to Freedom2Surf now moving to Bulldog all due to shaping or download choking I signed up to be in sep seems now I have to wait till at least next year oh joy I am so happy the simple truth would have saved me £49.99 to get my line ADSL for F2 shaft so thanks Be.......
 
TBH not realy that wierd, if they were to allow full download speeds on torrents then most of their network will be used up, then there will be customers moaning that their gerneral web browesing, email, and other activitys such as games are extreamly slow or have high latency. I think they would rather help those customers out that are preforming the most basic of internet access. Than those that are usualy downloading illegle files (i am not saying they all are).
 
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Low and behold
Mines shot up to 90 odd kbs this morning.After a phone call and a snotty e-mail,alls well again.
 
A number of members on a forum that I help moderate have reported this problem & all have been told by Pipex that there is no traffic management being applied to there accounts. All are reporting that they are only getting on average 20K download speeds when using P2P.

It looks like Pipex are indeed traffic managing but are blatantly denying it when they have called & confronted them on this issue, Most are being told that if they want a MAC code they will have to pay around £50 to terminate there accounts too.

Some of our members have also tried P2P clients that have protocol encryption (UTorrent Beta, Azureus,Bitcomet) & have reported moderate increases but nothing in comparison to what they should & have been getting.
 
They only denied administering the Fair Usage policy on my account(which i would contest).The young kid on the end of the line didn't know(or implied he didn't) what Bit-Torrent was and said can i get back to you in a minute.Obviously seeking advice,he then said i had a software problem and my speeds went up to about 40kb's about an hour later(sunday) then they shot back up this morning.I'm using encryption but this didn't seem to help much over the weekend.
 
freedoom2surf said no traffic shaping then came clean that yes we are have been trailing shaping guess who bought them out [pipex] then P2P speed when way down.
 
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Now phoned Pipex half a dozen times about the download speeds of 20 kB/s only for them lieing cun** to deny that anything is going on.

"I can assure u sir, you are not being traffic managed" is their reply.

Ok Pipex.................... How come a few weeks ago i was getting speeds of around 200 kB/s on my 2MB line?????????? Now i am lucky to get 20 kB/s.

I too am on Xtreme4 and being throttled by Pipex.

Certainly will be getting my mac code as soon as i can find another ISP which offers a half decent service something that Pipex just dont offer.

They must think we fell off a christmas tree or something.

Pipex even had the nerve to say my downloads for last month only came to 30GB. So i cant understand 4 the life of me why my downloads are so slow. If i had downloaded say 100GB a mth i might then be able to understand it. But not now.
 
Is the very nature of P2P dependant on the person you are dopwnloading from's upload rate, were always quick to bash the ISP's but if your downloading from people who are uploading multiple files your always going to suffer a sloe down.

ben
 
onephat said:
Is the very nature of P2P dependant on the person you are dopwnloading from's upload rate, were always quick to bash the ISP's but if your downloading from people who are uploading multiple files your always going to suffer a sloe down.

ben

I definatly know that it is not the site that he is accessing that is causing the slow speeds, tests have been done using a dedicated server bot that can pump out speeds far beyond what you would be able to get from normal users & the Pipex people are all reporting speeds of 20K.

If this was a one off user then I would say possibly but multiple users all over the country with the same speeds that is pushing the realms of believability.

There is more going on than Pipex are willing to admit to & that is a fact as bourn out by the numerous threads here & in other forums
 
Just spoke to pipex and the guy I spoke to admited port throttling on bit-torrents and other P2P ports as part of their fair usage policy.
I declined his offers of a discount and promptly asked for my MAC code.

Reading over at ADSLguide it seems that at the moment only those of us on xtreme4 are effected.

I've tried changing ports and turning on encryption with no luck, all torrents top out at about 20kB/s
 
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Pipex - CRAP!!

I think Pipex have been completely out of hand by restricting peer to peer download speeds to 20 KB/s. No email no nothing.

I for one must have spent hours and hours rechecking my connections etc to try and understand why my speeds had dropped from 200 down to 20kB/s. And all along it was down to them bastar** @ Pipex.

As soon as i find a new ISP i will be off and Pipex can go to hell then.

For me it looks like i have a choice of three new providers:

Zen
AOL
Eclipse

There is no cable in my area so that option is out.

Can anyone recommed any of the above firms?
 
Maybe they should give you an option, either uncapped adsl with p2p port restrictions or totaly unrestricted adsl but with a cap. That way people would know exactly what there getting, i dont think p2p should be allowed to run free otehrwise the vast majority of an isp bandwith would be taken up with it, as lets face it the majority of p2p usage is illegal downloads, yeh there are legit uses i know but hey they were very few compaired to the vast amount of illegal use.
 
Its just the underhanded way that Pipex have done what they have that really annoys me.

Anyway i am leaving Pipex next Friday for Eclipse.
 
I'd be supprised if Eclipse didnt do some form of traffic shaping.
 
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