Just did some research on Tiscali. They do seem to be on anti-P2P side. Especially with statements like "please disable any P2P software".
I would be looking for a different ISP. --- Tim Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
