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.
> 


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