Sheagae: What is the need to shape gaming traffic? An hour of gaming is ~100 MB. Come on, you could download 1GB in that time with filesharing. Seems a bit unfair to be honest

l43a2:

Sheagae: What is the need to shape gaming traffic? An hour of gaming is ~100 MB. Come on, you could download 1GB in that time with filesharing. Seems a bit unfair to be honest

yea doesnt make sense at all from that stand point.

l43a2:

simj2120:

l43a2:

simj2120: Hi everyone,

I made a little you tube video of my last nights wow effort. Took me 20 minutes game time and several disconnections to actually repair my little fella's gear and be able to see my mail. I would have hate to see what it was like doing a 5 or 10 man!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P53zitb4TQM
(Not a very impressive video but it does show you what 5-7 odd minutes of game time is like for me on big time. If I recorded a 3 hour video, it would be 3 hours worth of this movie.)

Also did a quick speed test and I noticed a ping test that I had not yet tried before. Gave that a go, not sure how accurate this test is. But let me just tell you that if that resembles anything like my connection on big time I can see my problems. Ran it 3 times this was the best I got

if you dont like bigtime get off of it an move to another plan, its as simple as that.

I think you will find it is as simple as this

If you arn't here to help, get out!

If you arn't here to talk about issues that this thread was opened for, get out!

Oh and boo hoo to you with your 300 ping. I feel sorry for the people that wasted there time trying to help you when you do not offer the same courtesy.

as quoted from telecoms own website

When the network is busy (generally inside the hours of 9am and 2am) you may notice reduced speeds, in particular you are likely to see reduced speeds in relation to file sharing traffic and online gaming.

Sheagae: What is the need to shape gaming traffic? An hour of gaming is ~100 MB. Come on, you could download 1GB in that time with filesharing. Seems a bit unfair to be honest

doozy:

Sheagae: What is the need to shape gaming traffic? An hour of gaming is ~100 MB. Come on, you could download 1GB in that time with filesharing. Seems a bit unfair to be honest

Unfortunately it's not like there is a radio button or drop down box that says 'do not shape gaming traffic' its difficult, it requires lots of time, testing and in some cases cooperation from whoever is hosting.  Where it is possible, we do exclude it.  As it has been pointed out we do say its probably not the best plan to be on if you want to game.  Fortunately, there's a few people at Telecom (who must be sick of hearing me talk about gaming by now) that do give me some time to help out, can't keep on top of them all though sorry. 

Sheagae: My reply seemed to have disappeared. Guess it was shaped to the extent it was lost. jk ;)

Anyways, I was saying: xbox live for instance uses 3 main ports, as far as I understand. Can the traffic shaping system see these ports coming through and not shape them?

doozy:

Sheagae: My reply seemed to have disappeared. Guess it was shaped to the extent it was lost. jk ;)

Anyways, I was saying: xbox live for instance uses 3 main ports, as far as I understand. Can the traffic shaping system see these ports coming through and not shape them?

It's probably possible to do that ... I would give your mates over at gpforums about an hour before they figured out how to exploit it, so, again, its not that easy ;)

doozy:

l43a2: 

TVNZ uses citylink which telecom doesnt peer with, so all TVNZ content for telecom customers comes via the USA i believe.

Ohhh l43a2, do I have some news for you, its slightly OT but relates to this, Telecom DOES peer at a couple of national locations for TVNZ content now, there's still a little work to do before its all 'working as intended', but its there ;)