Waitrose and traffic shaping

[Mrs Miggins]

Hi

Is anyone here a Waitrose ISP user?

If you are, have you noticed that your torrent speeds have reduced to about
10kbs per torrent?

Or is it just me?

(They did change to plusnet, as the provider, recently)

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Regards,
MM

[Sean B]

"Mrs Miggins" <mrsmi...@pieshop.com> wrote:

>Hi
>
>Is anyone here a Waitrose ISP user?
>
>If you are, have you noticed that your torrent speeds have reduced to about
>10kbs per torrent?
>

They are part of the same group as Madasafish who are now
merged with Plusnet...... Time to move on I think.

Sean B

[Mrs Miggins]

"Sean B" <se...@zmadasafish.com> wrote in message
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Plus net have a good rep for dial up though.

I'll have to read the posts to see what's wrong with them.

MM

[Eeyore]

Mrs Miggins wrote:

> Plus net have a good rep for dial up though.

You're using dial-up ?

See the group name.

Graham

[Mrs Miggins]

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriend...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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No I'm not using dial up

MM

[n...@invalid.co.uk]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:03:04 +0100, "Mrs Miggins" <mrsmi...@pieshop.com>
wrote:

In the Madasafish forum, Plusnet who now run madasafish / waitrose claim
there's no traffic management, they also claim all madasafish / waitrose
traffic gets gold or titanium traffic prioritisation ??? Yes I know it
contradictory.
See
http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/quality_broadband/traffic_prioritisation.shtml

As a madasafish user I have some suspicion of traffic shaping on just one
gateway, a newer plusnet one starting with "lo0". It may just have been a high
volume of traffic though. Seen no problems on older gateways starting with
"rb" or "gr". Have you tried switching gateways?

[Mrs Miggins]

<n...@invalid.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hi

I looked at the gateway settings but it's just ticked for default gateway.
I use Open DNS as my er DNS. But suddenly from yesterday my speeds have got
better. I can download 50 kBs now per torrent, if I want to. I generally
don't. But it's been a bit of a blip I think. Maybe the "shape of things
to come" ;-) (I wonder if anyone has ever used that pun before).

MM
ps ta for the reply.

[Plusnet Support Team]

n...@invalid.co.uk wrote:

> In the Madasafish forum, Plusnet who now run madasafish / waitrose claim
> there's no traffic management, they also claim all madasafish / waitrose
> traffic gets gold or titanium traffic prioritisation ??? Yes I know it
> contradictory.
> See
> http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/quality_broadband/traffic_prioritisation.shtml
>
> As a madasafish user I have some suspicion of traffic shaping on just one
> gateway, a newer plusnet one starting with "lo0". It may just have been a high
> volume of traffic though. Seen no problems on older gateways starting with
> "rb" or "gr". Have you tried switching gateways?

If you're connecting via one of the Plusnet gateways then your traffic
will be passed through our Ellacoya traffic management switches. Having
said that all traffic is prioritised (similar to our Broadband PRO,
Madasafish, Metronet accounts etc.)

If you're connecting through one of the old Brightview gateways
(starting rb/gr) then your traffic will bypass our Ellacoya switches.
This shouldn't really make much difference at all though TBH.

To find out what gateway you're on run a traceroute to an external host
(like bbc.co.uk), it's likely to be referenced in the second hop.
Alternatively browse to http://usertools.plus.net/@gateway - If it says
'Unknown gateway' then the chances are that the OP is connected via one
of the Brightview routers.

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[Mrs Miggins]

"Plusnet Support Team" <sup...@plus.net> wrote in message
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Thanks. It says unknown.

MM

[Simon Zerafa]

Hi,

Migrate to Plusnet and pick an account which has the features you need.

Plusnet are up front about what they manage and how they shape traffic so
you can pick an account which will offer handle higher speed BitTorrent
traffic if that is want to need.

Moving ISP's may not offer the solution you need. Many ISP's do manage
traffic but not all are up front about what they are doing or what speeds
you might expect at particular times of day.

Full details of the traffic management on Plusnet accounts can be found
here:

http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/quality_broadband/speed.shtml

Kind Regards

Simon

[Mrs Miggins]

"Simon Zerafa" <simon@*no-spam*.pc-technical.co.uk> wrote in message
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Thanks very informative.

MM