the answer will be A

because this isn't the first time they temporary lift the throttle system

they maybe doing an upgrade or maintenance and need to lift the throttle


I bet this only lasts for 1-2weeks, you maybe still having the unthrottle connection after they start throttle back, until you restarted/reconnect ur connection

so far as I know since I became 4Mbps user, they lift the throttle got 3 times already, each time only last like 1-3 weeks

This post has been edited by squall0833: Oct 22 2012, 12:38 PM

unfortunately, when throttled, even you got good or very well seeded torrent also difficult to hit maximum speed,

as for 1m u will very difficult hit higher than 25kB/s , for 4m average 30-40kB/s

unless you connected to a single or 2 or few seeder/peer by chance those have very high upload speed

then you can hit maximum speed, but only from 1-3 seeders, other connected seed/peer only 0-1kB/s to you


if the streamyx is unthrottled, even the torrent only has okay number of seeder and peer, you can very easily hit maximum speed in just a minute

and you will see usually have 10-30 seeds and peers connected each seed/peer upload at least 10kB/s to you

so you always get a good or max speed even with just "Okay" seeded torrent.


examples:




Obviously, you can see the big difference at the peer list, the leech speed

When TM lifts the p2p throttle, without VPN, you get the same result as the VPN Enabled

This post has been edited by squall0833: Oct 22 2012, 08:54 PM

tried Bitcomet without VPN

and with LTS enabled

same.. and even worse than utorrent single digit or no speed at all

This post has been edited by squall0833: Oct 24 2012, 06:34 PM

yeap, port opened and login with my long time created id,


was a bitcomet user few years ago



btw it's only good for china/taiwan/hk trackers


for western countries tracker not good, utorrent is better

by the way, TM in my location is doing upgrades, got their calls at office and workplace (512k and 1Mbps), say we may face service interruption during this time, and really got random dsl disconnection today

but my home 4Mbps not affected, I bet the throttle is lifted because of this upgrade exercise



This post has been edited by squall0833: Oct 24 2012, 07:34 PM

btw

I did not test the connection at the workplace so dont know if it is throttled


but I can tell you that you said you are currently unthrottled

but I'm still throttled, now have to use VPN to get max speed

so throttling can be certain area, not really nationwide

and I was unthrottled last month for about 3 weeks

This post has been edited by squall0833: Oct 24 2012, 07:56 PM

4Mbps here

same as usual, throttled

same as u

all green light, well port forwarded
utorrent,
speed not quite ok, but at least can up to 80kB/s, average 20 kB/s

bitcomet, with LTS Enabled
worse than utorrent, not moving at all


but with VPN Enabled,
speeds came back instantly...

utorrent - hits max in less than a min.

this has already proven, Streamyx p2p throttling being lifted happens randomly and temporary, and not really nationwide.
still VPN always works for bypassing this

This post has been edited by squall0833: Oct 29 2012, 02:22 AM

Last night Nov 04

P2P Throttle lifted ?

with VPN disabled, tried many different torrent with very well seed and low seeds, no matter what torrent I'm try to download, as long as the torrent has ok seed and peer, the speed hit max in less than 30sec, and all the time constantly max until the torrent completed.


not sure if it's just bugged or they really lifted, I don't really want to lost this IP address yet,

will report back after i got disconnected or restarted modem with different IP address

This post has been edited by squall0833: Nov 5 2012, 02:31 AM

today IP address changed,

back to throttled, p2p speed no longer blazing fast

so.. VPN time :/

edit:

lol, it seems several IP address range are unthrottled,

after few tries changing different range of IP address

once again P2P blazing fast lol

This post has been edited by squall0833: Nov 8 2012, 05:12 PM

I don't think TM throttles traffic other than p2p, some ppl have slower speed, it should be routing issue to different servers,

I agreed with that

almost constantly speed 475-500kB/s shown on utorrent actual speed being used is 500-565kB/s shown on bandwidth monitor

TM detects a user's connection if there are any p2p traffic ongoing, and makes it lowest priority,
i don't know clients other than utorrent, the difference I can see is even you are downloading from a heathly seeded tracker, you connected to many seeds and peers, but it's extremely low from every user,
it's like connected but get no speed from most of the available seed and peer.

like 1-5kB/s or 0.xkB/s or zero, it's difficult to get over 25kB/s total speed.
if you are lucky, connected to few seed and peer that has ultra high speed upload speed seeding, then you can have high speed from just one or few more users only

in short, you started a torrent task, no matter how long you wait, it still stays at low speed.


how when it's unthrottled,
as usual, you connect to many seeds and peers, you got the speed from most seed and peer. at least 20 above,
then you get high possible speed from many users.

in short, you started a torrent task, speed raises fast to max in just a minute.

VPN encrypts ur connection traffics, TM's p2p throttle system couldn't tell if that's p2p traffic, so the throttle will not work.


not everyone is being throttled, but most, depend on areas, certain ip ranges, or a maintenance is in progress so they temporary lift the throttle system.

if you weren't talking about p2p torrent throttle, i don't really think they do throttle others, the slow issues should be just normal routing issues

This post has been edited by squall0833: Dec 1 2012, 01:46 AM