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Kozmik · Aug 11, 2001, 05:32 PM

I have reason to suspect @Home has put a cap on the bandwidth I receive from certain IPs. Which IPs? Other @Home ones. I can send stuff at over 120k/sec to other @Home users, but when receiving from an @Home user, I can never get above 16k/sec. What the hell is the deal with this, and does anyone know if it is possible to work around?

AlbertWu · Aug 11, 2001, 06:34 PM

@Home has a 128 kbps upload cap for ALL users, but how you can upload at more than that baffles me.

Eugene · Aug 11, 2001, 07:04 PM

My buddy in SoCal with Cox@Home can send at about 30 kilobytes/s actual. I can only send at 16 kilobytes/s actual with AT&T@Home.

16 kilobytes/s is pretty much the standard upload cap for DSL and cable.

Cipher13 · Aug 11, 2001, 09:41 PM

My @home cap is 120Kb/s - or 13K/s. Pretty friggin' crap.

Kozmik, it seems you're bypassing their cap servers somehow.

I was working on doing that a while ago, then they cancelled my account (I since have it back and so shall continue to work on it).

Can you tell me, do you have a FireWall, and if so, what are its settings?

c0rvette · Aug 11, 2001, 10:13 PM

My ISP caps at 800kbps, or 100k/s so Im lucky, but lately since they changed my modem its been reduced to about 55k/s

120k/s is a bit shy from 125k/s which is exactly 1mbps, so you must have done something to your cap.

I heard some people editing their tftp files in their modem and allowing for more data, but this only works in rare circumstances.

Kozmik · Aug 11, 2001, 10:56 PM

Everything is set up the default way. A lot of my friends have @Home cable modems and upload past 120K/sec as well. One has reached nearly 200. I never did anything to uncap my bandwidth. It's all the default set up, and I have no firewall (yet). Perhaps my good bandwidth is due to the fact hardly anyone in my neighborhood has a cable modem? Still, the cap from other @Home users pisses me off.

Cipher13 · Aug 11, 2001, 11:07 PM

No, caps apply to all users regardless... hmm.
Very interesting...

Kozmik · Aug 11, 2001, 11:22 PM

You sure they haven't changed their caps or something?

Cipher13 · Aug 12, 2001, 12:04 AM

Originally posted by Kozmik:
You sure they haven't changed their caps or something?

Absolutely.
You're very lucky... if you're getting Mb/s upload speeds, you'd normally be paying several hundred dollars a month for that...

seanyepez · Aug 12, 2001, 12:12 AM

128 kilobits/second is 16K, Cipher.

One megabit is 128 kilobytes per second (i.e. 128K in a download window).

My cable is capped at 16 kilobytes/second up (128 kilobits/second up). I think they should have gone with a more reasonable cap for @Home users... 256k or 512k is nice, especially in more rural areas like Pleasanton where there aren't that many users.

sek929 · Aug 12, 2001, 01:23 AM

My RoadRunner upload is capped around 40-50K/sec...which is better than 13 but its by no means good.

On the downloading end I have gotten as high as 600K so I doubt that is capped.

wANCO tHE sANE · Aug 12, 2001, 03:19 AM

I've noticed this too. Before @home was popular in my area, my brother in law would get good speeds at up to 2mb/sec when connected through file sharing.... now it's like 10k/sec.

Cipher13 · Aug 12, 2001, 03:21 AM

Originally posted by seanyepez:
128 kilobits/second is 16K, Cipher.

Yes, I know, whats your point?

macvillage.net · Aug 12, 2001, 07:47 PM

The caps are now based on the area... they were put into place as a result of people running Napster and Guntella and sharing GB of data a day... thus causing costs to be astronomical.

Recently, lots of hardcore file sharers have recieved written letters saying that there service will be terminated by the end of the billing period and they have 30 days to return the modem (if leased) or that will be charged to their credit card.

As a result, in some areas traffic has gone down, and caps have risen.

I have 280k downloads, so I can't really complain, but back in February, I was down to 56k!!!! And had 3 day outages, I complained like crazy about that!

Kozmik · Aug 12, 2001, 10:59 PM

Originally posted by wANCO tHE sANE:
I've noticed this too. Before @home was popular in my area, my brother in law would get good speeds at up to 2mb/sec when connected through file sharing.... now it's like 10k/sec.

Cable is a large shared network. The more people on the network, the slower it goes, because more bandwidth from the line is being used.

I guess my area doesn't have a major cap like other areas do, either.