[RndTbl] Strange Shaw traffic. Shaping?
John Lange
john.lange at open-it.ca
Tue Feb 19 23:28:53 CST 2008
I guess it was just either a local congestion issue or some other
temporary Shaw problem.
I Tested it again tonight and got nearly a full megabit upload sustained
using the same file as last night.
Glad to say it was a false alarm.
John
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 18:33 -0600, Bill Reid wrote:
> 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).
>
> > Is anyone else seeing this? Has Shaw started some heavy duty traffic
> > shaping?
> >
>
> I have not noticed this behaviour with Extreme.
>
> I just now tried a few uploads of a 5M file. It would hit 200KB+ occassionally
> atr the start but average rate for all 4 uploads was the same 121.3K(even to
> different hosts). That seems strange and sure sound like rate shaping. If I
> did concurrent uploads I would get close to the 1Mbps throughput.
>
> I wonder if "Power Boost" applies to uploading? My uploads peaked over 200K
> which is certainly higher than 1Mbps.
>
> -- Bill
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