Location : Georgetown, Penang
Package : Rm88 (1mbps)
Current max DL speed archive : <5kbps (!!!!! )

To put this in perspective, I was able to hit 100kbps on occasions on Torrents that are well seeded. The throttling on my end, started last Wednesday (14 or 15 Nov). I have been getting good speeds for the last month. Too good to last I guess.

/rant
I used to be able to get my TV shows in an hour or two, now I have to DL for days. A 99% reduction in speed IS NOT REASONABLE - IF YOU CANNOT SUPPORT THE BANDWIDTH DEMANDS OF YOUR PRESENT CUSTOMERS, STOP ADVERTISING FOR NEW CUSTOMERS THAT YOU CANNOT ADEQUATELY SUPPORT. AT THE VERY LEAST STOP SELLING BANDWIDTH THAT YOU HAVE NO INTENTION TO SUPPLY. Bah! $90 for crap like this.

I'm not surprised, its not guranteed in the first place (probably TMnet is using different "throttling boxes/methods" in different regions). Another thing is that this forum is probably crawling with TMNet perisik - whatever that is discussed here that works will tutup soon enough. The easiest place for admins to find holes in their networks is browse through public forums like these.

Actually there are ways to bypass all the throttling and filtering (I will neither confirm nor deny that I have found a way - /wave perisik). It usually takes $$$, a credit card/paypal acct, some knowledge of networking kung-fu and a lot of effort. The best solutions, the Kung-Fu masters know to keep secret - for once their secret technique is known to the public - it will be countered and not work anymore. One thing for sure is that the days of convenient no-brain to use BT is over - its the sad truth until you can afford your own overseas line.

Usually when I DL or seed, I get 2 or 3 TMNet downloading peers (leechers but thats just a technical term - not a pejorative in this case). I have to cap my upload speed so usually they can only get 4-5 kbs out of me per downloading peer. Perhaps thats the case? That guy may be sharing his upload to you with a few other peers. I'm using UTorrent, I don't exactly know how to allocate 100% of my upload speed to just 1 guy. Is this an Azureus feature?

Back on the subject matter:
Penang, Georgetown still affected. <5kbs DL

On my DLs with my 1.6 UTorrent - all the international seeders cant exceed 5kbs total - thats how much TMNet allocates me. On the other hand, if local seeders hop on the torrent (from TMNet) - the speed spikes to +50-60kbs occasionally (but rarely). Looking at the peers list, I see tantalizing clues on how the TMNet traffic shaping works. There are occasional bursts of speed out of international peers lasts for several minutes at a time (but they dissappear fast or throttled back as the traffic shaper "catches the data" and adapts). These bursts of speed usually come from only certain countries and is never USA or the western countries. Its a BIG CLUE RIGHT THERE. Look for that pattern - It will help you overcome the throttling. I can't say more because there are TMNut spies in the forum.

Georgetown, Penang (1mb package)

My speed is jumping up and down. One moment is 100kB/s, the next is down to 10 kB/s. Its usually on the low end, the spikes appear when I am able to get several seeders at 20kBs (and a lot of slower speed 5kb/s peers/seeders). Average speed after downloading a 350Mb file is around 30kB/s (bleah nothing spectacular, just have a few 100KB/s spikes). As far as I can see, I did not get Malaysian peers inflating the speed when the speed jumped (all international peers - mostly Europe).

I am assuming that TMNet is adjusting the throttling settings. The initial settings must have been set to maximum.

Penang, Georgetown area.
1Mb package. Feb 1, 2007.

1-4kb (!!!) total speed. 3 torrents (only around 70mb total) took the whole night (8pm - 1am)! Plenty of seeds, cannot connect to peers. Average speed data does not even show up on UTorrent - thats how slow it is (> 1kb). God help me if I intend to download 350mb files (all week pun tak habis prolly).

Insanity.

Edit:
As is - right out of the box TMnet screamyx - no fancy VPN. Basic encryption used in UTorrent 1.6. Port # randomly assigned >10000 (I thinks). Zero upload happened, so it doesn't matter what I set the upload speed limit at. The torrents are based in the US, around a dozen seeds and leeches. Private tracker - no DHT. Usually I could get around 40kb (last year) and finish the torrents in like less than an hour.

For an average non-technical minded Streamy subscriber, it would be fairly useless trying to BT "right out of the box", you either have the technical "Kung Fu" to work around the throttling or have the means ($$$) for VPN alternatives (or the equivalent). I would think that this is the intention of TMnet throttling - to filter out the majority of the casual BT users (who do not have the tech know how or $$$ to bypass the throttles).

This post has been edited by ubvmadman: Feb 2 2007, 03:50 PM