"Our RIN profile, as far as I am aware, is free from shaping. Then again, I know very little about RIN so I can't really tell you anything else."
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I was in all the project meetings and can confirm that you are correct. Our profile is clean.

Edited by deleted (Fri 11-May-07 15:01:42)

YOU'd love to know whats causing them! lol.

I havent got a clue - just looking for answers - short of following the cable myself, which is tricky as its underground I havent got a clue.

Im leaning to ward either a config error somewhere, or more likely, something being fried or close to fried in my exchange.

If it were a noisy connection or degraded wire etc, I would expect the synch rate to drop.

If it were contention, then why has it appeared so suddenly (almost line speed for weeks on end, to 1/20th line speed overnight). Also, shouldnt upload be affected also, and at peak times should be less noticeable.

So I think it has to be something that is fried or failing at the exchange.

Anyway - sorry for the OT post on this thread.

Its the weekend - we should be away from our PC's and enjoying the garden or something!

What does the BT speedtester say for your IP Profile?

Could you post a tracert to 212.159.6.9 please.

Cant do a tracert now as I am at work, but the ip profile for my line is 3500 (although in a few days it should return to 4000 as I am synching at well over the 4096 level).

Synch is about 4250, ip profile is 3500 and throughput on the latest test was about 200.

"Course... Remember - Ellacoyas tag and monitor traffic and are used on many networks throughout the world, but they don't do shaping."

That's arguable since you've been rate limiting with the Ellacoya's since they were bought and that falls under the banner of traffic shaping in some people's eyes.

TT

The Ellacoya's don't do the shaping though. As Ian says, they merely tag the different types of traffic. We have additionally hardware that actually performs the shaping, prioritisation and rate limiting.

"The Ellacoya's don't do the shaping though. As Ian says, they merely tag the different types of traffic. We have additionally hardware that actually performs the shaping, prioritisation and rate limiting."

Since your portal graphing indicates the ERXs *aren't* doing the peak hours rate-limiting on the likes of p2p protocols, you must have another device doing it. Have you got another inline device in addition to the Ellacoyas? If so, what is it?

TT