Slow Internet? Traffic Sense "Network Provider Throttling" Must Read

the_commuter

d123 wrote: »

You do realise Martin sold this site to MoneySupermarket.com years ago?

You might want to try and catch him on Twitter...

hi D123

i thought he was still here

thanks :beer:

the_commuter

Frozen_up_north wrote: »

All networks have to limit traffic in some way or another, it's not a resourse without bandwidth limits. If you stop to think for a moment, it should be obvious...

Take a small seaside town with a large caravan park as an example, in winter months there will be little traffic, on a wet weekend in summer there could be hundreds sitting in those caravans trying to browse the web or watch videos. Do the networks build a network to cope with a couple of huge peak events a year in a location that has little traffic for most of the time? Of course they don't.

Some, such as BT Mobile, are offering their customers use of local WiFi as a means of spreading the load. This could help in locations such as city centres and shopping centres.

hi Frozen up north

yeah i understand that cos at 00:00 they say most folk are in bed so they stop throttling, but form 2pm they must say that's when it start to get at its busiest. a restriction is fair enough but the actual restriction is too much it's overkill. but if most regular users are asleep at 00:00 then the ones who P2P file share would probably just leave that running all night all at the same time every night. they could up the speed a little 50Kbps more so you don't have to keep refreshing pages, or can make a purchases online without the connection timing out and it failing problem solved. apparently some city's centers were having wifi installed by the local councils to make them free wifi hotspot citys maybe that would help spread traffic i future

the_commuter

JJ_Egan wrote: »

Must read what ??

you looked

the_commuter

WellKnownSid wrote: »

Or to use the OP's analogy - if your car does 100 mph you'd be stupid if it only did 10 mph at "peek" (sic) times.

But... That's exactly right. In the absence of 25 lane motorways, if you all want to travel the same road at the same time, that's what happens in rush hour.

hi Sid, easy tell your Boss you have an appointment with the doc to get your hemorrhoids checked he want ask any questions, let you leave early miss the rush

WellKnownSid

the_commuter wrote: »

hi Sid, easy tell your Boss you have an appointment with the doc to get your hemorrhoids checked he want ask any questions, let you leave early miss the rush

I am the boss and don't have piles, thanks. :beer:

the_commuter

forgotmyname wrote: »

Are you in the UK? My car can do 140mph+ yet only allowed to do 70mph. In Rush hour im lucky to exceed 40mph. Where is the difference? When somethings busy it goes slower.

hi Forgotmyname have you ever done 140?

yeah, whats the point of having a car that dose 140 when the speed limit is half that? its not as if we have an Autobahn, which aint (exactly limitless) but the difference is, if your internet crashes you get annoyed, if you crash a car

forgotmyname wrote: »

And there is 1024Kb in a Mb unless your a lying HD manufacturer, who steal the 24Kb. I do wonder if there is a black market in leftover 24Kb's?

A big warehouse full of 24Kb's?

the_commuter

WellKnownSid wrote: »

Actually, sorry to be pedantic but there are approximately 122 Kilobytes in 1Mb...

:beer:

the_commuter

WellKnownSid wrote: »

I am the boss and don't have piles, thanks. :beer:

:rotfl:

No excuses needed

WellKnownSid

the_commuter wrote: »

i do understand how it works well enough to know at 3pm my internet speeds drop from 700+Kbps to as little as 8Kbps and at 00:00 they go back up to 700+Kbps every day and night

I wonder how you are measuring this...

dealer_wins

As a Three customer I do agree with one of the OPs points. The fact when they do throttle you its down to unusable speeds which is unacceptable IMO.

Yes throttle, but still allow enough bandwidth to actually have a working internet connection. There is a reason the network is busy in the evenings, its becuase people want to use the blooming internet then, not wait ages for a page to load!!

I havnt felt the pain of being traffic senced for a while, but when I did the internet was unusable.