Nick Rout wrote:
>I used to have paradise jetstart 128k. I now have Orcon UBS 256k. It is
>worse! higher latency, max speed outside NZ in the order of 64k.
>
>Previously when I had a bittorrent going I would absolutely saturate the 128k connection, and be lucky to get any other traffic in or out. Now
>its like its deliberately leaving 3/4 of my bandwidth for headroom. But
>its not only bad on bittorrent, also general browsing, downloading
>iso's, the works.
>
>I use gentoo linux and download a lot of files from
>http://linux.jetstreamgames.co.nz . That, and it seems most other nz
>sites go fine.
>
>I am using a DSE XH7916. Nothing has changed except my login name and
>password.
>
>
>Should I be gathering firm statistics and moaning to orcon, or is this
>just par for the UBS course?
>
Orcon were originally blaming Telecom for their UBS issues, but that
side of things appears to be resolved. now the issues appear to be
upstream. NZ trafffic works reasonably well, but intl sucks.

Steve

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