mercutio: they're probably just migrating people back to the normal BNG, and doing groups of customers rather than everyone at once.
Is that a good sign for this thread? Does that mean the issues we have been having should in theory be resolved if they are going back to the normal BGN?
mercutio: they're probably just migrating people back to the normal BNG, and doing groups of customers rather than everyone at once.
Is that a good sign for this thread? Does that mean the issues we have been having should in theory be resolved if they are going back to the normal BGN?
Nope still seems rubbish. My upload is faster than my download!?? Certain types of traffic are being throttled. Standard websites, gmail, youtube seem ok. But tried to download my songs on itunes store and it was like 100kb. But It was uploading at 900kb to google drive at the same time. So it seems it is downloads only, and only certain types of data. Im on the 30/15 fibre line btw.
International traffic download on torrents tonight continued to be <2KB/sec during peak hours, which started about a week ago (probably started to notice serious throttling a week and a half ago?). Someone else mentioned also observing peer to peer heavily throttled. Haven't done any testing on non-p2p traffic yet, general web surfing has been OK but youtube has always been aweful with Orcon for me. Had my fingers crossed that it will magically fix itself but might need to post some speed tests.
I'm still trying to get my head around throttling and shaping. For example, I'm downloading data on Steam from the Orcon server and yet I observe massive shaping. Steam reports up to 1.8MB/sec and then all the way down to 0KB/sec and then up and then down again. Same shaping on p2p too. What's the purpose of shaping Steam traffic like this? Why can't we just have decent internet, I feel like we pay enough for it.
ar0r: International traffic download on torrents tonight continued to be <2KB/sec during peak hours, which started about a week ago (probably started to notice serious throttling a week and a half ago?). Someone else mentioned also observing peer to peer heavily throttled. Haven't done any testing on non-p2p traffic yet, general web surfing has been OK but youtube has always been aweful with Orcon for me. Had my fingers crossed that it will magically fix itself but might need to post some speed tests.
I'm still trying to get my head around throttling and shaping. For example, I'm downloading data on Steam from the Orcon server and yet I observe massive shaping. Steam reports up to 1.8MB/sec and then all the way down to 0KB/sec and then up and then down again. Same shaping on p2p too. What's the purpose of shaping Steam traffic like this? Why can't we just have decent internet, I feel like we pay enough for it.
Yup Torrents are nerfed at the moment. Mine has been like that for about 2-3 weeks now. was hoping they would fix it but no luck.
MadEngineer: Ours improved after the outage the other day as mentioned a page or so back. We had to restart our genius for the connection to come back up.
Did you also get such an outage? Maybe you need to manually restart your connection for any improvements to apply?
I did a factory reset on the genius didn't do much though.
Downstream and upstream rates are OK for me, at least 13Mbps down, 1Mbps up (I'm on a wholesale connection, via a cabinet), but latency is all over the place.
Pings after the euba node can briefly spike to 1 or 2 seconds - this doesn't affect web browsing or media streaming much, but its a pain in the butt when playing latency sensitive online games.
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