How's your P2P?

ou7shined · Jan 17, 2007, 21:14:20

Mines been a bit down lately, might just be weak torrents although they definitely look healthier than they're acting. There's a niggly voice in the back of my head saying that it's something to do with the current shenanigans. How's yours?

maxping · Jan 17, 2007, 23:51:43

I always found it fairly slow and there so much S**T out there i gave up ages ago.

ou7shined · Jan 18, 2007, 00:10:14

Well I must say that up until recently I've been getting the best P2P performance that I've ever seen (blindingly fast) but recently I can't get above around 20-30 kB/s max per torrent. Like I say maybe I've just been unlucky with the torrents.

Nerval · Jan 18, 2007, 06:58:23

Well I've been running torrents overnight recently to leave more of the limited peaktime for those who need it, but I ran a test for you just now (7am) and it shot up to 600k within seconds, which for me is a record. So there's nothing essentially wrong as far as I can see. It was from TVTorrents.com with over 500 seeds.

ou7shined · Jan 18, 2007, 08:04:20

Cheers for that Nerval, prolly just me then. Yeah I restrict mine to the am too.

Nerval · Jan 18, 2007, 08:38:07

Rich, might be your setup, but then again it could be the capacity problems. My P2P is flawless atm, but speedtests and browsing are all over the place varying from good to awful within minutes.
Seems like the effect of these problems is neither consistent nor predictable. So if you've really changed nothing between when it was good and now, I'd be inclined to suspect IDNet's capacity.

Nerval · Jan 18, 2007, 10:53:57

And an update:

My browsing and speedtests have been getting worse all morning, so I thought I'd try my P2P again.
The torrent which at 7 am did 600k will not now exceed 1.8kb.

So my conclusion from that is yes, it is the capacity issue that is knackering the P2P along with everything else.
This is not looking too good if we have to wait till the end of February for an improvement.

Nerval · Jan 18, 2007, 11:01:01

And a further update:
My router log tells me that I lost connection to the internet about 10 o'clock, while remaining synched.

PPP link down (Internet) [212.69.53.71]
GRP Default destination is not routed anymore via gateway 212.69.53.71

Oh dear.

Inactive · Jan 18, 2007, 11:15:17

I don't download P2P at all, but one thing is for certain, my speeds keep getting better every time I check them, best ever last night.

Ray · Jan 18, 2007, 11:28:00

Quote from: Nerval on Jan 18, 2007, 11:01:01
And a further update:
My router log tells me that I lost connection to the internet about 10 o'clock, while remaining synched.

PPP link down (Internet) [212.69.53.71]
GRP Default destination is not routed anymore via gateway 212.69.53.71

Oh dear.

Just checked my router log and found that I also lost my Internet connection in the early hours this morning at 00:36 but I remained synched though.

Download speeds OK this morning last test result is here: -

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/11691182618777222358.html

Don't do P2P though

DorsetBoy · Jan 18, 2007, 11:29:19

Before 10.00am today I had speeds of 6750kbps...................now it is down to 625kbps

and these are the pings at present.

PING www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10): icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=316 ms
64 bytes from www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10): icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=305 ms
64 bytes from www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10): icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=293 ms
64 bytes from www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10): icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=290 ms
64 bytes from www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10): icmp_seq=5 ttl=60 time=285 ms
64 bytes from www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10): icmp_seq=6 ttl=60 time=286 ms

--- www.idnet.net ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 4997ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 285.352/296.335/316.220/11.070 ms
[root@unknown-00-50-8d-93-a6-c0 ~]# ping -c 6 www.bbc.co.uk
PING www.bbc.net.uk (212.58.224.36) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www6.thdo.bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.36): icmp_seq=1 ttl=249 time=405 ms
64 bytes from www6.thdo.bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.36): icmp_seq=2 ttl=249 time=417 ms
64 bytes from www6.thdo.bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.36): icmp_seq=3 ttl=249 time=419 ms
64 bytes from www6.thdo.bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.36): icmp_seq=4 ttl=249 time=413 ms
64 bytes from www6.thdo.bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.36): icmp_seq=5 ttl=249 time=418 ms
64 bytes from www6.thdo.bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.36): icmp_seq=6 ttl=249 time=443 ms

--- www.bbc.net.uk ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 405.408/419.555/443.096/11.516 ms

Nerval · Jan 18, 2007, 11:51:33

And yet another update:

RED FACE

P2P is OK after all. While messing with it, I appear to have turned the scheduler on which, it not being between 0100 and 0800 hours, shut the bugger down.

I have now turned the scheduler off and P2P runs fine again.

And if speedtest.net is also buggered, which it appears to be, then the problems start to evaporate like ice in the sun.

No wonder the first question support lines ask is: Have you tried turning it off and on again.

Apart from browsing which is slow. No doubt I've done something to bleedin cause that as well

DorsetBoy · Jan 18, 2007, 11:55:52

Simon_idnet · Jan 18, 2007, 14:01:43

Just to clarify from IDNet's end when we have experienced traffic congestion it has only been between 7:30pm and 10:00pm and that has happend just three times in the past two weeks.
Regards
Simon

Lance · Jan 18, 2007, 14:29:36

Thanks for the update Simon,

ou7shined · Jan 18, 2007, 15:16:34

Yeah thanks again Simon. Nerv, I can't blame my setup as I'm quite pernickety at tweaking my µTorrent client in a tried and tested config. I have experienced my P2P choking other surfing recently too so now that we can almost certainly rule out IDNet as being at fault I think I need to go back and play with my router's setting. Thanks guys.