Streamyx O’ Pain

Posted by mkhairul - August 14, 2007 at 01:08:02 am -

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It has been a couple of days now, my ping reply from google is around 777ms and above. My torrent download is 1-10KB/s. Not too bad, eh? I’ve been through worse, with ping reply reaching to 3000ms, unthinkable. Called up the customer support, as usual step by step scripted walkthrough which is amazingly frustating. I felt like talking into /dev/null or to a MySQL Blackhole Table. I’ll spare the details, just ask around some friends who is a bit tech-savvy and watch them spill it out. Burn baby, burn.

I browsed and did a little searching here and there.

Antara sebab TMNET dan ISP2 lain restrict bandwith usage untuk P2P,selain dari alasan yang ianya pengunaan bandwith yang sia2,ialah kerana tekanan dari pihak seperti RIAA/MPA diseluruh dunia. RIAA/MPA melobi senate US untuk meluluskan undang2 untuk menyaman ISP yang membenarkan P2P. Jadi TMNET,selaku sebuah global player mengambil inisiatif. RIAA/MPA is a very powerfull lobby on Capitol Hill and US Senate policies is streched even to foriegn nations.

The first line, waste usage of bandwidth. That is utter crap. I get my monthly bill.. like 4GB usage per month. For a 1MB user to fully utilise its connection, that user must download at least 270GB (something around that). 4GB is nowhere near 5% of 270GB. And some other users utilise it more than I do. I get crappy 10KB/s bt speed.

The evidence is clear, TMnet is using some kind of packet shaping thing to throttle down P2P traffic. More and more people are trying to bypass it.

Committed to bringing you the best, Awwww. Very touching, right here.. right at the heart. Might cause a heart attack one of these days screaming at the customer support and out of frustration of not being able to do anything other than seeing packets drop like flies. There’s not much that we can do about it, not much competitor around. One of these days, we might just have to run through World Health Organisation’s Mental Health Checklist (see The Corporation: Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power). If we’re unlucky, the resulting diagnosis will be a Psychopath.

For more empirical evidence of crappiness. Major Internet Service Providers Using Traffic Shaping, and TM net is also listed as a BAD ISP. Some people told me that the words that comes out of the mouth of the current Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation is pure fictional and and out of utter ignorance. Not just any people, people that have sat on the same level with him. This gives a bad rep to the person who appointed him.

There’s also some view involving CALPERS, economic domino effects, our country begging for FDI and the government being pressured by the RIAA/MPAA, which sounded rational and credible or radical and at the same time logical, due to the user’s outstanding political knowledge in prior posts.

Is it me or is it just when I’m using BT that my connection becomes excruciatingly slow?

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1. Khairul - right now I can’t go further than 4GB as well. Those stats are from August & September 2006.

   Comment by Ady — August 14, 2007 #

2. Seems like 219 IP is faster now. Which IP are you in?

   Comment by Yong — August 18, 2007 #

3. 60.*, but now it looks fast though, getting like 300ms pings from google.

   BT is ok, yesterday when downloading Naruto, I get like 20KB. It’s hard to pin point the origin, either the tracker, p2p traffic shaping, the peers. Too many variables.

   Comment by mkhairul — August 18, 2007 #

4. [...] A few months I endured the torture of using utorrent. Not because the program bad, but because streamyx is limiting the bandwidth for torrent. As I had discuss in Streamyx O’ Pain. [...]

   Pingback by Aria2 - download utility (bittorrent, http and some other stuffs) : [ mkhairul.com ] — September 13, 2007 #

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