schoie88 wrote: > I know it's the ISP. Forums full of similar problems with game > servers. they've admitted Stops dead at 7pm comes back at 10 pm. > Nothing else changes. If I try to load any p2p stuff [as a test] it > stops and starts at exactly same time. Apart from port 5050 can you > think of any other parameter that might be looked at? the ISP has > admitted to 'traffic shaping' at these times.
You could ask if they're aggregate shaping, or per-user. If they're just saying "x Mb/s of 'p2p' traffic allowed on our transit pipe", you haven't got a hope in hell, statistically, of getting the tiny VASSAL traffic through against the people doing actuall file-sharing. If they're saying, for example "each 2Mb/s user is limited to 128Kb/s of 'p2p' traffic", then I'd say something's not working as intended - unless you (or someone else in your household, if applicable) is genuinely file-sharing at the same time. Shaping to *zero*, ie blocking, seems a bit extreme. Regards, Tim.
