hooli
12-11-2006, 20:24
Hi guys.
This is not a bitch and moan thread. I'm new to Cable (Used to be ADSL) i'm looking for some input to some observations I've made
Situation is.
I live in an area of Edinburgh that has Telewest and I'm on 2mb with TV and Phone. Things have been fine until recently when I've noticed dramatic speed reduction on downloads and poor performance from Streamed Radio and Video. Now I've got the fault raised with Telewest and they say currently that there is capacity issues in my area and its being looked at. Now this has got to be 3 weeks now. How long does it take for someone to look at a ticket? I've been told I am on the best upstream for the UBR I am on. I've noticed people saying they have had the UBR changed and its resolved the problem. Is this actually possible and also what the hell is a UBR? When the guy told me I thought he said Uber! LOL.
Now just yesterday I noticed that if I download this linkhttp://server2.armed-assault.de/ftp/aa/videos/EXCLUSIVE_ArmA_Montage.wmv using my browser I get around 50KB/s, sometimes less, but never more.
If I use fresh download and tell it to connect to the server using 3 connections, I get 150KB/s and 5 connections gives me just under 250KB/s. Now simple maths would tell me that per IP connection I am restricted to around 50KB/s.
I put a short post on BY-Users and the response was that some sites can cap the data per IP. I already know this but, I've tried various other sites that I know per IP are not capped, one of them being blueyonder's gamefiles.blueyonder.co.uk and I get the same results. This is affecting streaming video and also I use Ventrilo and that is one connection per IP whether I like it or not.
Now I've used Speedguide.net's TCP Optimiser, I've used this for ADSL and Cable and it worked fine. I've 10 connections per server on both HTTP and HTTP 1.1 so I know the browser has the ability to connect more than once to each site.
Now for my questions which I hope some of you will be able to answer.
Does anyone know of any problems in Win XP that might cause this and this whole issue is my problem and if yes, any ideas of a solution. I am one of the few that do actually download the windows updates and I am also aware how they can mess with your PC.
Does anyone know if blueyonder could be doing this as part of the contention issue in the area as a temporary fix to allow everyone some bandwidth. Surely not though since if I get a download manager it gives me full bandwidth.
Can you try a file from the blueyonder site and also that file which is a video I posted. Right click and save as as its about 200MB. Post your results. Preferably a few of you from all over and hopefully someone from Edinburgh as well.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Jamie
This is not a bitch and moan thread. I'm new to Cable (Used to be ADSL) i'm looking for some input to some observations I've made
Situation is.
I live in an area of Edinburgh that has Telewest and I'm on 2mb with TV and Phone. Things have been fine until recently when I've noticed dramatic speed reduction on downloads and poor performance from Streamed Radio and Video. Now I've got the fault raised with Telewest and they say currently that there is capacity issues in my area and its being looked at. Now this has got to be 3 weeks now. How long does it take for someone to look at a ticket? I've been told I am on the best upstream for the UBR I am on. I've noticed people saying they have had the UBR changed and its resolved the problem. Is this actually possible and also what the hell is a UBR? When the guy told me I thought he said Uber! LOL.
Now just yesterday I noticed that if I download this linkhttp://server2.armed-assault.de/ftp/aa/videos/EXCLUSIVE_ArmA_Montage.wmv using my browser I get around 50KB/s, sometimes less, but never more.
If I use fresh download and tell it to connect to the server using 3 connections, I get 150KB/s and 5 connections gives me just under 250KB/s. Now simple maths would tell me that per IP connection I am restricted to around 50KB/s.
I put a short post on BY-Users and the response was that some sites can cap the data per IP. I already know this but, I've tried various other sites that I know per IP are not capped, one of them being blueyonder's gamefiles.blueyonder.co.uk and I get the same results. This is affecting streaming video and also I use Ventrilo and that is one connection per IP whether I like it or not.
Now I've used Speedguide.net's TCP Optimiser, I've used this for ADSL and Cable and it worked fine. I've 10 connections per server on both HTTP and HTTP 1.1 so I know the browser has the ability to connect more than once to each site.
Now for my questions which I hope some of you will be able to answer.
Does anyone know of any problems in Win XP that might cause this and this whole issue is my problem and if yes, any ideas of a solution. I am one of the few that do actually download the windows updates and I am also aware how they can mess with your PC.
Does anyone know if blueyonder could be doing this as part of the contention issue in the area as a temporary fix to allow everyone some bandwidth. Surely not though since if I get a download manager it gives me full bandwidth.
Can you try a file from the blueyonder site and also that file which is a video I posted. Right click and save as as its about 200MB. Post your results. Preferably a few of you from all over and hopefully someone from Edinburgh as well.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Jamie