Author Topic: I Think Comcast is.. (Read 3920 times)

Smokeyjr2 · « **on:** December 17, 2009, 09:03:55 AM »

I think comcast is fucking with me. I've been seeding these two animes for a few days now my average upload speed is about 100-150 kb/s (slow i know) but now its been slowed to 13-40 kb/s. When i change the port it speeds way up to 500 kb/s (thats because of the power boost) and gos within normal range then it slows back down to 13-40 kb/s after a few minutes. I've done this many times now i think comcast is just playing with me or something.

Anyone one have any ideas?

Chiyachan · « **Reply #1 on:** December 17, 2009, 09:05:05 AM »

It's comcast, it's known.
Try being on BT. You can get a CONSTANT 7-10kb/s all the time.

cubensis55 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 17, 2009, 09:12:33 AM »

Comcast has me capped at 120kbps up.

Been like that for years now...

I'll just be thankful I'm not on chiya's connection.

Smokeyjr2 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 17, 2009, 09:27:26 AM »

Just as i made this thread my internet gos out for like 5 mins....Thats comcast for you.

kurandoinu · « **Reply #4 on:** December 17, 2009, 09:50:21 AM »

Quote from: Chiyachan on December 17, 2009, 09:05:05 AM

It's comcast, it's known.
Try being on BT. You can get a CONSTANT 7-10kb/s all the time.

I live about 200 metres from my BT exchange, and we had terrific speeds when we first got the net. THen after 2 months we couldn't even load youtube between 6pm and midnight : /

Gamling · « **Reply #5 on:** December 17, 2009, 12:38:14 PM »

Yeah, I'm using comcast (nothing else in my area to use, other then dialup). Anyway I get great speeds for about 5-10 seconds, then they cap it (eg, 700kb/s down and 0-10 up, when supposedly should get 10mb/s) I find that if I throttle my upload speed below a certain point, I get better upload speed (over time.) I haven't found the exact limit, just that seeding at 65kb/s will stay that way and seeding at 90kb/s or above drops down to 0-10kb/s and stays that way. My suggestion would be find the point where comcast stops messing with your upload and just leave your torrent client on all the time.

sdedalus83 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 17, 2009, 01:24:40 PM »

Or spend a little bit more and go business class. Constant 2Mb/s torrent upload speed is pretty cool.

Onoz · « **Reply #7 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:06:25 PM »

You've hit your 150- 250gb cap "whatever it is"

you wont get good upload speeds until next month
just try to keep a balance in how and when you download and it shouldnt be an issue/
they also throttle traffic at peak hours.
starting around 2:30-3pm until 10-11pm sometimes (They dont throttle consistently, just as need arises)
If you've got a history of high traffic you can bet you'll be the first to taste it
you can get around it in a mild to moderate way by optimizing your bt client

NaRu · « **Reply #8 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:22:38 PM »

When i seed I get 500KB/s all the time. I download at 2.6MB/s. I also have comcast. I never had a problem with them

Arveene · « **Reply #9 on:** December 17, 2009, 09:22:04 PM »

Comcast still throttles your connection when you use what they call "too much bandwidth in a small amount of time".

Naru: Do you have Comcast business? I know they don't throttle there.

Drew · « **Reply #10 on:** December 17, 2009, 10:28:43 PM »

Comcast sucks. I hate them. I wish there was another provider in my area.

Smokeyjr2 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 17, 2009, 11:14:14 PM »

We've been thinking of switching to At&t buts it not available in our area. My brother switched to it and he said its a lot better then comcast.

Proin Drakenzol · « **Reply #12 on:** December 17, 2009, 11:25:59 PM »

Comcast is better than Americable...

which is what I have to deal with (at least until I get my house off-base)

NaRu · « **Reply #13 on:** December 18, 2009, 01:10:30 AM »

Quote from: Arveene on December 17, 2009, 09:22:04 PM

Comcast still throttles your connection when you use what they call "too much bandwidth in a small amount of time".

Naru: Do you have Comcast business? I know they don't throttle there.

yes I do

nstgc · « **Reply #14 on:** December 19, 2009, 04:58:17 PM »

I have Comcast and they haven't given me too much trouble. Basic billing gives me 16Mb/s down and 2Mb/s up. From what I can tell, its not throttled. Its rare for me to get more than 1MB/s down from a single source, but the total can, and does stay at a constant 2MB/s at times. Usually, thats when I'm using the package manager (apt-get or the aptitude) to download programs. For torrents, its usually "capped" at 1MB/s.

NaRu · « **Reply #15 on:** December 20, 2009, 04:48:18 AM »

Tomorrow morning Im going to call Comcast and order their new 50Mbps down 10Mbps up package

PowerMac · « **Reply #16 on:** December 20, 2009, 05:14:53 AM »

Quote from: NaRu on December 20, 2009, 04:48:18 AM

Tomorrow morning Im going to call Comcast and order their new 50Mbps down 10Mbps up package

Must be nice. Charter has left us in the Dark Ages, the best connection offered is 10/2. Forget DOCSIS 3 I wish they would just give us DOCSIS 2 speeds. Other non-DOCSIS 3 areas can at least get the 20/2 service.

kenshin-dono · « **Reply #17 on:** December 20, 2009, 06:04:07 AM »

ya comcast defiantly throttles stuff, its listed on one of the wiki pages faq i belive. I can get speeds of over 100K but thats usually when i have tons of connections up on that torrent. Most of the time each individual connection is like 5-10k upload =( it sucks, ive tried lots of different possible fixes but nothing works, its just the way comcast is. Still have a 3/1 ratio though just by seeding a shit ton of stuff at once, but it takes a while

nstgc · « **Reply #18 on:** December 20, 2009, 06:18:27 AM »

Strange. I wonder why I don't have that problem. When I was downloading Darker then Black 2 yesterday I was going so at a constant 1MB/s.

kenshin-dono · « **Reply #19 on:** December 20, 2009, 06:22:49 AM »

Quote from: nstgc on December 20, 2009, 06:18:27 AM

Strange. I wonder why I don't have that problem. When I was downloading Darker then Black 2 yesterday I was going so at a constant 1MB/s.

upload, not d.load