ISPs restricting MFC video rates?

[BullFrogBlues]

I have access 2 60Mbps terrestrial links from the same provider (Optarse in Australia) yet any MFC cam model with a rate over about 250 kbps freezes every few seconds. In other words models with bad to average connections are OK, models with very good connections are shit.

I know that there is no shaping on the inside of the firewall, get the same result on the outside of the firewall anyway and one of the connections used to be OK until last weekend.

I have hunted around various flash video streaming sites and the "non-porn" ones are OK, streaming porn sites are buffering a lot.

Checked with our network guy and he knows of no restrictions.

I may have to raise a trouble ticket with them. Just wish I could find a non-porn stream that is also being restricted.

I wonder if they have done this because they now offer unlimited downloads for home users?

 

[FifthElephant]

I have access 2 60Mbps terrestrial links from the same provider (Optarse in Australia) yet any MFC cam model with a rate over about 250 kbps freezes every few seconds. In other words models with bad to average connections are OK, models with very good connections are shit.
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I wonder if they have done this because they now offer unlimited downloads for home users?

I was also seeing this last night.
Though in my case youtube was buffering too, on all but the smallest of postage-stamp video.

Aha.
http://www.plus.net/supportpages.html?a=2&support_action=messages&ispservice_id=adsldial - though this will only be relevant to those on plusnet in the UK.

This sort of traffic-spike lead (I suspect many people are coming on holidays, and hence watching lots more streaming media) congestion is one of the reasons that people are arguing that net neutrality is a bad thing - and that ISPs should be free to charge services for access to thier internet, over and above the fees they pay to connect to the internet.

This might work for sites like youtube, and others, that can negotiate good deals, but for bandwidth heavy sites like MFC it'd be impossible.
I for one have downloaded ~250G from MFC in the last 6 months.
If MFC had to subsidise my ISP, then they could never do buisness.

 

[BullFrogBlues]

Did a bit more hunting around on aussie ISP forums and there are lots of people complaining of download rates being poor from the US from this particular ISP. I suspect they haven't upgraded their international links enough to cope. This is from Australia's 2nd biggest ISP!

My home ISP recently upped their download limits to near enough to be unlimited (0.4 - 1TB) and I don't have a problem. Phew.