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I am bandwidth hungry

There is never enough! But then, since I don’t shut off my computers, I have all the time in the world to finish my downloads slowly over a 512kbps ADSL connection. All I ask for is more upload speed so my webserver can serve pages faster and I don’t have to frustrate myself with webhosting providers. I’m currently serving anime files on IRC, capped at 15KB/s, leaving me about 10-15KB/s for gaming and forcing this paragraph down to your internet browser.


If I could save up enough money, I’ll be getting a 80GB harddisk with 8MB cache, and start using my Athlon 1GHz CPU to run this site and some others. Currently, this blog and my ircquotes site is being processed on a Pentium 2 233MHz. The other PC that’s sitting on the left of my main rig in the photos of my room I posted a few entries ago.


Back to the topic, I came across 2 infuriating links regarding SingTel’s use of P-cube to throttle down the downloads of SingNet’s ADSL subscribers and one of them unfortunate ones happens to be me. The Internet Bandwidth forum at HardWareZone’s forums are heating up with a few discussions of SingTel’s use of P-cube.


Here’s the stuff and I’m highlighting the important points to note…


http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/columnists/2003/0707bleed.html

During the last year they have had many subscriber complaints as to unsatisfactory bandwidth and performance, and many customers have churned. They had to add many costly leased lines to their infrastructure, and have seen international transit traffic soar. Through the use of P-Cube’s product they found that 60% of their traffic was P2P. Additionally, they found that only 5% of the users accounted for 70% of the P2P traffic.
I belong to that 5% so satisfy me cos I paid you!

SingTel also implemented new services to help control this problem. They limited P2P traffic from international transit links. By using regional bandwidth links, internal costs were reduced. They allowed for unlimited P2P during off-peak hours, but limited during peak.
And by peak, you mean the only period of time where I am home from work and play FinalFantasy 11 with lag because of limited bandwidth.

http://www.isp-planet.com/news/2003/p-cube_030707.html

We spoke to one satisfied P-Cube customer, Benny Chee, senior network engineer at SingTel, Singapore’s ILEC.
You’re satisfied because you’re probably getting a raise for reducing our bandwidth.

Chee says he only needs to throttle P2P during the peak usage hours. During peak hours, P2P traffic is generally throttled to one-fifth normal speed. “We want to maintain 512 Kbps all the way to the desktop.”
How the heck do you maintain that speed when you are throttling our traffic to one-fifth the normal?

The company might also like to charge more for heavy usage, but it has to maintain its current low price because Starhub offers 1.5 Mbps for about $32 (56 Singapore Dollars).
Bravo Starhub, Bravo!!

My question, how damn hard is it to improve Singapore’s internet bandwidth? I’ve seen advertisements of SingNet’s boasting high speeds at low costs but open your fucking eyes and look at yourself. Limiting our download speeds simply contradicts what you have been promoting since the dawn of ADSL, dedicated bandwidth.

2 Replies to “I am bandwidth hungry”

  1. Anyway, put yourself in the shoes of the service providers. They are buying bandwidth for their customer, but then now the amount they collected cannot tally with they are paying. Thus limiting bandwidth lor.

    Anyway I hope the P Cube will be able to allow normal speed where sharing with other p2p users on the local network, that is traffic within singapore itself.

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