Are VM Throttling My Ports?
17-07-2008, 04:14
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Are VM Throttling My Ports?
Since last weekend speed on my FTP downloads and also Peer to Peer inc BBC Iplayer has been appauling, Im lucky to get 6kb/s.
On normal net downloads from sites speed is fine.
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17-07-2008, 05:04
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Re: VM Blocking Ports
Hmm.. I know VM throttle certain ports, but i've not heard of them blocking them.
What's your client & what ports are you using?
You could try (if you're not already) dynamic / private ports: 49152 - 65535
I do & i've not noticed any problems with speeds, aside from the tight arses who refuse to seed, but thats hardly headline news eh lol 
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17-07-2008, 06:12
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Re: VM Blocking Ports
Your title is confusing Welshchris, if VM were blocking ports, you'd get zero traffic on certain protocols.
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17-07-2008, 11:04
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Re: VM Blocking Ports
throttling might be more apt if they are actually doing that
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17-07-2008, 11:06
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Re: VM Throttling Ports
I've amended the title to lower the confusion level a bit
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17-07-2008, 11:14
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Re: VM Throttling Ports
also hasnt been confirmed they are so maybe it needs amending to say possible aswell? or am i being a bit too picky? 
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17-07-2008, 11:19
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Re: Are VM Throttling My Ports?
better?
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17-07-2008, 13:32
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Re: Are VM Throttling My Ports?
well its not only on P2P clients its happening, its happening on Things like BBC Iplayer which i know uses P2P.
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17-07-2008, 13:50
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Re: Are VM Throttling My Ports?
To lower the confusion level a bit more...
NTL have, for years, blocked some ports to help stop the spread of worms. Details here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06...blocking_plan/
I imagine VM still do the same.
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17-07-2008, 13:53
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Re: Are VM Throttling My Ports?
Yeah I have heard that NTL do that and they annouced over a year ago that they was blocking more and more ports due to virus's spreading
Chris have you tryed using the connections without ur firewall or tryed different ports
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17-07-2008, 14:01
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Re: Are VM Throttling My Ports?
NO Don't Be a Fool
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17-07-2008, 15:30
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Re: Are VM Throttling My Ports?
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Originally Posted by darthlinux
Yeah I have heard that NTL do that and they annouced over a year ago that they was blocking more and more ports due to virus's spreading
Chris have you tryed using the connections without ur firewall or tryed different ports
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yep, tried lowering firewall and even changing the firewall i use.
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NO Don't Be a Fool
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Dont u have anything better to do, ill email ur mum tell her uve been watching Adult material.
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17-07-2008, 15:38
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Re: Are VM Throttling My Ports?
Let's leave it there please
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17-07-2008, 22:37
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Re: Are VM Throttling My Ports?
Sorry i just had to get that in LOL
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18-07-2008, 01:33
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Re: Are VM Throttling My Ports?
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Originally Posted by Welshchris
Sorry i just had to get that in LOL
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Well if we're "getting things in" I'd like to throw in that the random capitalisation of his words is grammatically incorrect
However in response to the topic at hand, VM don't care what you do with your connection and your personal habbits are your own, UNTIL it becomes out of hand and puts someone in danger or has another cause for concern.
There can never be separate itemised billing on broadband accounts, its just not possible like the old days of dial up when you had premium rate dialers gaining its way into your PC and costing you £3/min to look at naughty pictures
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