plusnet - p2p Limited to 30k downloads ?

I can't hit over 30k with all my p2p programs i'm downloading a few demo's.

Or am I going crazy ?

so has plusnet put in 30k limits, I'm sure its 10k on there plus service,

I'm on a prem account.

Marky wrote:
> I can't hit over 30k with all my p2p programs i'm downloading a few
> demo's.
>
> Or am I going crazy ?
>
> so has plusnet put in 30k limits, I'm sure its 10k on there plus
> service,
>
> I'm on a prem account.

I just fired up my p2p client and got over 100Kb/s downloading within
seconds on a couple of popular mp3s (which I then cancelled of course:-) ).

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> so has plusnet put in 30k limits, I'm sure its 10k on there plus service,

There's no fixed limit on Plus so far as i'm aware, it's traffic shaped,
so that during peak or busy periods, P2P will slow down, but speed up
when the network is generally quiet.

"with all my P2P programs" is a worrying phrase, as it suggests you have
rather a few, and given consideration that there are very few which
don't contain spyware of sorts, are you sure your system isn't just
overwhelmed by such? You of course have your bandwidth settings
correctly aligned, and realise that downloading from a peer may be
subject to *their* upload speed being slow?

> I can't hit over 30k with all my p2p programs i'm downloading a few
demo's.
>
> Or am I going crazy ?
>
> so has plusnet put in 30k limits, I'm sure its 10k on there plus service,
>
> I'm on a prem account.

I'm getting 200 kB/s on Azureus on a Linux cd image I'm currently
downloading.

Russell

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:15:04 +0100, "Tiny Tim" <_> wrote:

>Marky wrote:
>> I can't hit over 30k with all my p2p programs i'm downloading a few
>> demo's.
>>
>> Or am I going crazy ?
>>
>> so has plusnet put in 30k limits, I'm sure its 10k on there plus
>> service,
>>
>> I'm on a prem account.
>
Forgive my curiosity, but if you're only downloading demos, why use
P2P, why not do a direct download from the vendor's site?

Or are the demos "Demos!!"

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 01:12:54 +0100, Don Carter <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Forgive my curiosity, but if you're only downloading demos, why use
>P2P, why not do a direct download from the vendor's site?

some software is moving to bittorrent and the like as an efficient
distribution method, to save their servers collapsing when they
release a new version or whatever.

Opera and OpenOffice spring to mind.

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Don Carter wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:15:04 +0100, "Tiny Tim" <_> wrote:
>
>>Marky wrote:
>>> I can't hit over 30k with all my p2p programs i'm downloading a few
>>> demo's.
>>>
>>> Or am I going crazy ?
>>>
>>> so has plusnet put in 30k limits, I'm sure its 10k on there plus
>>> service,
>>>
>>> I'm on a prem account.
>>
> Forgive my curiosity, but if you're only downloading demos, why use
> P2P, why not do a direct download from the vendor's site?
>
> Or are the demos "Demos!!"


Bittorrent P2P quick. 3Gb knoppix CD downloaded in 4 hours with 2Mbit link
when it was released. Ftp would have taken minimum 8 hours with the hoards
people rushing to get it.

"Marky" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:4310223c$0$1304$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I can't hit over 30k with all my p2p programs i'm downloading a few
demo's.
>
> Or am I going crazy ?
>
> so has plusnet put in 30k limits, I'm sure its 10k on there plus service,
>
> I'm on a prem account.
>
>

same here...all my p2p programs run at a maximum of 30k no matter what time
of the day I connect. I get maximum speed if I download direct from web
sites though. I am on Broadband Plus...can't really grumble I suppose paying
£14.99.

On 27 Aug 2005 12:27, ComPCs wrote:

>There's no fixed limit on Plus so far as i'm aware, it's traffic shaped,
>so that during peak or busy periods, P2P will slow down, but speed up
>when the network is generally quiet.

Nice theory... I don't use peer-to-peer (though I am sure you mentioned
using something many weeks back, over a weekend - sometime when quotas
were under discussion and you did not want to be checking your usage
'just in case'). Anyway, as you have both Premier and Plus you can do
the experiments and report back. On Usenet, I get something from 10 to 15
kB/s during "peak" hours (sometime like 08:00 to 01:00 - must admit that
I have not monitored for "start" of their peak hours but have seen the
change to higher traffic at 01:00) and up to 30 kB/s from 01:00 *and no
faster* despite there being perfectly adequate capacity for it, seeing as
I can start a webcam at 150 kB/s and run it for hours if I want (yes, it's
a case of "blast them" if they are throttling Usenet to so slow a speed :-)

Or is the plan not to switch to 2x Broadband Plus accounts now ? Would be
a bit awkward, running a business connection on one (but then again, isn't
that what you've been doing with one on Plus and one on Premier! ) PGM.

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On 28 Aug 2005 13:56, "Gareth :-\\\) voom" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>same here...all my p2p programs run at a maximum of 30k no matter what time
>of the day I connect. I get maximum speed if I download direct from web
>sites though. I am on Broadband Plus...

I've queried the policy - lower priority is one thing, but when you can see
<http://www.plus.net/support/displayImage.php?strImageFile=plus-week.gif>
a load of spare capacity every night, it surely cannot be claimed to impact
on the other trafic, and that graph is specific for BB Plus accounts. I've
posted a query for Dave Tomlinson in plusnet.service.customer-feedback on a
similar line, in the last half hour, and hope he'll come up with an answer.

Of course, one could always watch films from services like CinemaNow.com as
an alternative (I do, as well as various streaming audio and video services
which can bump up traffic to anything from 1 to 6 GB in a day). Peter M.

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