[RndTbl] Strange Shaw traffic. Shaping?

Mike Pfaiffer high.res.mike at gmail.com
Tue Feb 19 16:50:37 CST 2008


John Lange wrote:
> Just recently I noticed that when I try and upload a file from my Shaw
> home Xtreme account via SSH (scp), the transfer starts out quickly
> reaching nearly 1Mb, then my entire Shaw connection clamps right down
> and my ping times shoot through the roof (800ms).
> 
> In fact, not only does the upload slow to a crawl but the entire
> connection becomes unusable for anything.
> 
> I don't do a lot of uploading but I don't recall this ever happening
> before.
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this? Has Shaw started some heavy duty traffic
> shaping?
> 
> John

	Just terrible performance on their news servers. Then again they've
always treated NNTP as a joke. At this point it could be anything. I had
to go back to Feisty from Gutsy (Ubuntu) because of what looks like a
driver issue from ATI.

				Later
				Mike



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