JimFlorida
@bellsouth.net
| reply to ropeguru
Re: AT&T=Bellsouth Speed Throttling with uTorrent??
TurboTCP is no longer an option that can be toggled on and off on the AT&T Southeast/BellSouth Westell 6100 modem/routers. TurboTCP either caused problems with some things and they eliminated it, or TurboTCP worked so good and never caused problems so they just built it into the firmware being always turned on. Another possibility is that they just forgot about TurboTCP and did not put it into the newer firmwares.
Just for the heck of it, I reloaded an old firmware version on my Westell 6100, but it didn't do any good. The TurboTcp option is gone.
I doubt if BellSouth "forgot" about the feature. They deliberately disabled it , lowering the upload and download speeds in the process. The feature cannot be turned on, as far as I can tell. Am I wrong? |
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patrickp
Patrick
join:2002-05-03
Bloomington, IL
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to JimFlorida
My Verizon Westell 6100 "Turbo TCP" option can be check marked on or unchecked is off.
I see no difference in d/l or u/l speeds with it on or off.
Turbo TCP is accessed on this by selecting from top main menu Configuration/Turbo TCP.
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JimFlorida
@bellsouth.net
| Patrick,
All that means is that if I move up to Indiana, I will be able to turn on the turbo feature.
Unfortunately, the geniuses at Bell South have disabled the feature down here.
It is ironic, because they are always touting their fast download speeds if you pay an extra $23 a month. But they are doing things that result in much worse download speeds. |
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pas1972
join:2000-10-22
Hanceville, AL
| reply to JimFlorida
I've experienced the same situation the OP was talking about.
Basically if you add your results from a speed test to the bandwidth the torrent itself is using it doesn't add up to what you'd normally get on a speed test.
This leads me to believe that perhaps it's the nature of DSL for this to be an issue? I'm not a dsl tech, so I'm not claiming any insider knowledge here. I just know that if I'm doing an upload at 26 KB/s (which is nowhere near my upload saturation of 53 KB/s) I get horrible pings in any game, I get horrible download speeds, and I get slow load times on web pages.
I have to assume that it's the actual DSL technology that causes this since I have several friends on cable that don't experience this type of issue and can even host a game server with great pings while seeding using half their upload bandwidth. Once again I'm not claiming to be a DSL guru, I'm just relaying what other people on broadband have reported to me about this situation. |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
1 edit | said by pas1972  :I've experienced the same situation the OP was talking about. Basically if you add your results from a speed test to the bandwidth the torrent itself is using it doesn't add up to what you'd normally get on a speed test. This leads me to believe that perhaps it's the nature of DSL for this to be an issue? I have to assume that it's the actual DSL technology that causes this since I have several friends on cable that don't experience this type of issue and can even host a game server with great pings while seeding using half their upload bandwidth. I have seen cable users posting in their forums, or the P2P forum about problems with speed and latency while using their cable connections.
There are, however, routers which can be configured for QoS control of bandwidth, broadband routers from D-Link, Linksys, and Netgear, which can be use with DSL modems, as well as cable modems.
In my experience, without QoS, torrent upload needs to be throttled to 66%, or less, of maximum upload capacity in order to not seriously drag down the connection.
Before I replaced my Westell WireSpeed B90-36R516 with the SpeedStrea 4100, I would throttle upload back to 50% of upload capacity, and I still suffered some lag with surfing, and such. Forget streaming audio, and streaming video!
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~Oh Lord, why have you come
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pas1972
join:2000-10-22
Hanceville, AL | reply to JimFlorida
I'm using QOS at driver level via CfosSpeed.
Traffic shaping definitely helps a lot overall. |
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