Something has changed with how bandwidth is shared on my connections
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Something has changed with how bandwidth is shared on my connections
23-12-2012 1:34 PM
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Overnight, I schedule both usenet and P2P use. For as long as I've been doing that, years, the bandwidth has been pretty much evenly shared between newsleecher and utorrent. If anything, P2P has taken most bandwidth when downloading (I've deliberately tuned things that way) so that the few things I use it for get chance to finish, then usenet can take the full bandwidth for the rest of the night.
Recently though, usenet traffic has completely dominated to the extent that I can't even get a small file on P2P, in eight hours, without stopping usenet completely. Then I get all bandwidth to utorrent, so there is no actual problem with either usenet or P2P connections. It's just a sharing thing.
Last night I got around this by dropping my number of connections in newsleecher to just 1 to limit it's use, but then of course once P2P had finished I was not getting anywhere near full line use on the only remaining (usenet) connection and files that I would normally have got on usenet overnight are not finished.
Has something changed with traffic management that would have caused this? I've certainly not changed anything myself and, as I said, I've been doing it this way for years so I know the traffic patterns depending on what I'm doing.
It's not a complaint - I would just like to know so that I can sort things out at my end.
Re: Something has changed with how bandwidth is shared on my connections
23-12-2012 1:39 PM
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The other thing is that on your product they are both supposed to be bronze so it might be worth running wireshark and see if they are both categorised the same
Re: Something has changed with how bandwidth is shared on my connections
23-12-2012 1:41 PM
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23-12-2012 2:01 PM
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Re: Something has changed with how bandwidth is shared on my connections
23-12-2012 2:37 PM
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I'll try to stay awake tonight and get a wireshark log.
Edit to add:
I've just checked Oldjim's link and got this:
Estimated line speed:
Not recorded (service activated before we introduced estimates).
Current line speed:
18 Mb
My modem currently says 20459 kbps and last night I was getting a steady 2.1MB/s in newsleecher. That is the usual for me since ADSL2+ came along. here.
Re: Something has changed with how bandwidth is shared on my connections
23-12-2012 2:46 PM
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23-12-2012 3:22 PM
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At first, logs for both usenet and P2P looked as expected, with the Differentiated Services Field at 0x20.
Then I noticed that further down in the usenet log only, it changed to 0x80 for interactive traffic.
I use SSL on my usenet connection, but always have and that's not been an issue before.
I can PM or email the logs to someone if desired.
Re: Something has changed with how bandwidth is shared on my connections
23-12-2012 3:41 PM
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If you post the number of the ticket on here Kelly can make sure it gets looked at by the right people.
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23-12-2012 4:16 PM
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I ran the trace again just to be sure, and the same thing happened again at almost exactly the same place (around line 75 in the log).
I'll probably be moving over to the new unlimited package, provided that I can keep my static IP block (I've already raised a ticket to check that). I did wonder if the issue I had noticed was due to the new traffic management system for the new packages but it would seem not.
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24-12-2012 9:52 AM
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(again shows how important this forum is to keeping our platform running. THANKS GUYS!)
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Re: Something has changed with how bandwidth is shared on my connections
24-12-2012 11:35 AM
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