Downloading

[whereswally007]

Hi

I have come across a weird problem im not liking,

At the moment i download eveything from uni because i am having problems with my isp. But i came across a weird thing,

Yesterday in the middle of the day i was downloading everything fine, through both direct download and through irc, but when it came to last night and today, when i direct download anything it has a speed of about 70kb/s but through the irc channel i can get 700kb/s. I want to know what happened and how to fix it??

ps normal days i get a maximum of 1.5mb/s.

any help would be great.

[lemmingllama]

What host are you using? Its probably just a problem on their end. Either that or the IRC is hogging the bandwidth and there were lots of people using the uni internet.

[Mujklob]

Is the problem continuing today? Are you downloading from computers in a lab or Wi-Fi on your laptop? If it's off your laptop your university could be throttling your connection. Read your university's network access policy to see if they have a bandwidth cap and if they disallow or throttle certain types of traffic.

If only certain types of traffic are being throttled, you may be able to circumvent this by setting up an outside computer as a server and transfer everything through SSH.

[whereswally007]

rapidshare. but it doesnt matter what direct download i use its heaps slow.

I have tryed using it without the irc running and doesnt make a difference

Is the problem continuing today? Are you downloading from computers in a lab or Wi-Fi on your laptop? If it's off your laptop your university could be throttling your connection. Read your university's network access policy to see if they have a bandwidth cap and if they disallow or throttle certain types of traffic.

If only certain types of traffic are being throttled, you may be able to circumvent this by setting up an outside computer as a server and transfer everything through SSH.

Yes it is happening today.. its through wifi and i do this all the time and its only just happening now. plus theres no one at uni at night and through the day at the moment theres no one because its break time.

[Mujklob]

Rapidshare has extremely limited their downloading for free users since Megaupload's demise. You're lucky to get 70kb/s. Unless you have a premium account with them, I doubt you were getting 1.5MB/s.

Is the traffic problem only on direct downloads from these types of sites, or is browsing chugging along as well? Can you stream YT videos easily, etc.?

[whereswally007]

yeah vidoes and that are all fine. its only when i want to download something that it happens and its not just rapidshare its across the board, from downloading files, musci etc across all different sites.

[ragnawind]

yeah vidoes and that are all fine. its only when i want to download something that it happens and its not just rapidshare its across the board, from downloading files, musci etc across all different sites.

This may or may not be the case, but your university may have put a limit on HTTP Transfer rate. If that is done, it wo't affect anything but direct downloads, like from file hosts. It will have no effect on video, irc, torrent, etc., since they use their own respective protocols, but file hosts use HTTP. websites do also, but they don't use enough bandwidth to notice a difference, unless the limit is set to around 5-10KB/s (approximately 56KBPS modem speeds) for HTTP.

[whereswally007]

if this was true, whats the easyest and best way around it?

[lemmingllama]

If that is true, then you either have to proxy or just live with it. Well, you could also try to hack your school's system, but I doubt that you can get it to work... Also, if they are using a standard school internet package like NetSupportSchool, then you could also make a program to bypass the program or shut it down.