Author Topic: slowing down of downloads (Read 3842 times)

crispyduck · « **on:** April 13, 2007, 09:45:47 am »

Anybody HELP!!!!!!

My downloads start off OK, my uploads start OK, after about an hour, my downloads slow down gradually, my uploads stay the same(ish), during the day my downloads slow down to just over 1 (ONE) K. My upload stay's about the same. The way things go, my upload is FASTER than my multi-downloads. I am running W2K Pro SP4. It is doing my head in. At about 16:00 winmx refuses to connect to anything?????? PLEASE HELP. Also can you get WinMX for Linux? Thanks in advance.

KM · « **Reply #1 on:** April 13, 2007, 10:42:33 am »

tiscali are actually the worst ISP for censorship, and they are known to not only throttle p2p, but in fact completely block absolutely everything, preventing you from even using the chat rooms... but then you get what you pay for, people force ISPs to lie about their offerings to get customers, because people would would rather sign up with an ISP that promises 8Mbit it can't possibly deliver for £17.99/month than one that delivers 1Mbit for £30/month... even though most of them would never even need anywhere near that

as for running winmx on linux, winmx will run perfectly under wine version 0.9.16, newer wine versions won't function though, and older versions are hit or miss and mostly down to luck

crispyduck · « **Reply #2 on:** April 13, 2007, 11:12:00 am »

I am not with Tiscali, I am with Pipex. What would happen if I changed the port setting from 6699 to something else? I have just slowed down to zero and disconnected. Any more suggestions?

Me Here · « **Reply #3 on:** April 13, 2007, 11:49:30 am »

Hi Crispyduck,

Tiscalli owns Pipex, they purchased them late last year or early this year. If you run your IP Address through this site you'll see its owned by Tiscalli

http://aruljohn.com/track.pl

If you dont know your IP right off hand you can get it from here

http://www.getmyip.org/

The point is. Tiscali is blocking your connection completely during 'peak' hours, breaking thier fair use policy making you free to go elsewhere for Service btw. And during non peak hours they are throttling you down to dial up or less speeds. Changing ports will not help as the software used blocks and throttles based on packets WinMX sends when transfers are made or it attempts to make a connection (during those certain hours). Any one on Tiscali/Pipex is basically free to leave thier contracts but screwed for using WinMX if they dont.

Max™ · « **Reply #4 on:** April 13, 2007, 05:42:11 pm »

I was with Tiscali about 2 years ago, they are very not friendly, totally unhelpful & will lie,
i had them for about 5 months, then moved and got cable.
my payment was due to tiscali on payday, so my bank bounced the monthly payment in the morning when my wages was credited to my account that same day in the afternoon, tiscally disconnected me by lunchtime that same day, yet when payment was made by phone, it takes 48hrs to reconnect you but less than two hours to disconnect you.

best thing to do is change ISP

crispyduck · « **Reply #5 on:** April 14, 2007, 08:51:44 am »

I'm going to, I spoke to them yesterday, it now turns out that they don't "prioritise" P2P programs. Even before I joined the told me lies also. I am changing ASAP. Thanks for your info.

Me Here · « **Reply #6 on:** April 14, 2007, 09:39:39 am »

Good Luck Crispyduck and keep us posted on your progress..

crispyduck · « **Reply #7 on:** April 14, 2007, 03:44:06 pm »

Will Do. Thanks.

joe soap · « **Reply #8 on:** April 21, 2007, 11:27:24 am »

Hi just registered. Found this chat about ISPs quite interesting - I also have noticed a significant downturn in my download speeds recently using Winmx but don't think it is my ISP provider. I changed recently from BT to Sky (I am in the UK) but I sometimes use Limewire and I have not throttling of downloads with that software. I get DL speeds of up to 100K but in Winmx I am lucky if I get 3.5 - any ideas?

Me Here · « **Reply #9 on:** April 21, 2007, 12:15:11 pm »

Hi Joe Soap,

Welcome to the site. This is indeed due to your ISP. Sky is one of the ones we know do throttle P2P traffic. The problem is this, as your asking yourself, why does this effect WinMX and not other P2P systems, the answer is WinMX is an easy target for the new types of software that ISP's use to detect p2p traffic. Limewire is one that is often used when folks say.. 'but this works'.

Sky is most certainly throttling other p2p networks, just ones your not using is all.

I wish there was better news but the fact your transfers are working ok says its down to the ISP.

joe soap · « **Reply #10 on:** April 28, 2007, 09:11:30 pm »

Thanks for responding.

Is there anything I can do to analyse, how and when my ISP is throttling the bandwidth? I take it that there is nothing I can do other than go to another ISP provider?