[clug] OT: Horrific speeds on NBN

[Scott Ferguson]

On 03/08/15 16:49, Carlo Hamalainen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My parents have a new nbn connection, a 25/5 plan from TPG. Download
> speeds are very different based on the site being used:
> 
> * Downloading HD video from youtube using youtube-dl: 2.2 MB/s
> * Downloading a tarball from my EC2 host (US-east): 80 KB/s
> * Apt-get update using au.archive.ubuntu.com: 80 KB/s
> * Apt-get update using us.archive.ubuntu.com: 80 KB/s
> * Wget of
> http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-ubuntu-precise_4.3.0.37-1_i386.deb: 80
> KB/s
> * Wget of http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/100meg.test: 400 KB/s
> 
> Meanwhile I can reliably upload via scp to my EC2 host at 600 KB/s.
> 
> Does TPG run some kind of transparent proxy that lets Youtube traffic
> through and demotes everything else to worse-than-ADSL2 speeds?

Possibly. Use Glasnost to find out.

Glasnost attempts to detect whether your Internet access provider is
performing application-specific traffic shaping. You can test if your
ISP is throttling or blocking email, HTTP, SSH, Flash video, and P2P
apps including BitTorrent, eMule and Gnutella.

http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest-mlab.php


> 
> Is this the kind of thing that the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman
> would like to hear about?
> 
> --
> Carlo Hamalainen
> http://carlo-hamalainen.net
> 
> 
> 


Kind regards