ISP seems to be throttling my connection through certain ports?

[Bugz]

I was wondering if someone without any lag could do the following test and post the results:

thinkbroadband :: Broadband Speed Test

Here's my observation at first glance (at a time when I cannot log ingame or when I do get ingame - lag massively):

Date 04/11/08 21:35:14
Speed Down 127.34 Kbps ( 0.1 Mbps )
Speed Up 264.83 Kbps ( 0.3 Mbps )
Port 8095
Server speedtest1.adslguide.org.uk


Date 04/11/08 21:37:18
Speed Down 4963.34 Kbps ( 4.8 Mbps )
Speed Up 373.18 Kbps ( 0.4 Mbps )
Port 80
Server speedtest1.adslguide.org.uk

From what I can see, port 8095 is getting throttled massively - so much so that it is only running at 1/40th the speed of port 80.

If other people get high speeds through both ports with their ISP then I can only imagine my source of lag is my ISP.

 

[Kami]

Sounds like what Tiscali did with me, hence me now being with IDNET who don't mess about with anything, just give a decent gaming connection..

Tiscali only did it at certain times of the day, but when it kicked it, my ping would go from 80-100 to over 90,000.

 

[Flimgoblin]

Sounds like traffic shaping to me?

Date 04/11/08 21:59:52
Speed Down 18784.72 Kbps ( 18.3 Mbps )
Speed Up 717.39 Kbps ( 0.7 Mbps )
Port 8095
Server speedtest1.adslguide.org.uk

Date 04/11/08 22:01:51
Speed Down 18198.32 Kbps ( 17.8 Mbps )
Speed Up 714.30 Kbps ( 0.7 Mbps )
Port 80
Server speedtest1.adslguide.org.uk

Pretty much identical for me.

If you're not downloading massive amounts of stuff outside of playing WAR ...
Call your ISP and ask them to stop shaping traffic to the WAR servers - they'll almost certainly have done something for WoW...

Some useful info in here:
FreddysHouse - View Single Post - Authentication Failed - application will now exit

If you are downloading lots there might be some automatic-shaping of traffic on your connection once you hit a certain limit - my ISP (virgin) do that for anything during the day/evening.

 

[Bahumat]

Get off the granny tits parade website. Not only is this causing your lag, but it's forcing me to pay the women more money!

 

[Bugz]

Thank you very much for running it Flim.

This only confirms my suspicions. Obviously the times I'm not getting lag, which ironically are not peak times (early morning, weekday early afternoons) are when they are not restricting it.

I will use this MyFreedom for now and contact my ISP about stopping the restrictions.

I would have saved about 10 days of emailing GoA if they could have just said something like this to me - instead of asking me for my debug.txt and to delete files etc.

 

[Bugz]

And why the fuck did that guy not mention tht fuckin program to me - he only lives down the stairs! :d

 

[aika]

told ya

sadly not much can be done, as its not shaped via ports only but rather through traffic type (usually).
For example a 32bit ping packet will go normal, try pinging with a 8 bit packet (which most games and encrypted traffic use - you will see different results usually).
Not sure whats the command in windows, afaik it was ping -l 8 <address> , but I might be wrong

Edit: this is my result -

Date 04/11/08 22:30:25
Speed Down 1525.56 Kbps ( 1.5 Mbps )
Speed Up 159.50 Kbps ( 0.2 Mbps )
Port 8095
Server speedtest1.adslguide.org.uk

Date 04/11/08 22:33:02
Speed Down 1525.09 Kbps ( 1.5 Mbps )
Speed Up 159.49 Kbps ( 0.2 Mbps )
Port 80
Server speedtest1.adslguide.org.uk

yeah slow connection - but its free from traffic shaping

 

[Succi]

you're such a mess :/

 

[GReaper]

Perhaps you could mention the name of the ISP instead of just giving us speed test results?

Chances are that some of us here will have heard if your ISP does throttling, has capacity issues, or just has a bad reputation - as well as recommending an alternative.

 

[Ashash Saleem]

With Virgin Media (10 meg connection)

Date 05/11/08 19:09:31
Speed Down 9602.20 Kbps ( 9.4 Mbps )
Speed Up 479.46 Kbps ( 0.5 Mbps )
Port 8095
Server speedtest1.adslguide.org.uk


Date 05/11/08 19:07:07
Speed Down 9403.47 Kbps ( 9.2 Mbps )
Speed Up 480.01 Kbps ( 0.5 Mbps )
Port 80
Server speedtest1.adslguide.org.uk

It actually seems my 8095 port runs faster than my 80 port, no throttling there for me

 

[caswallawn]

I get the same speed on both using sky broadband as well.