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My results for Flash: Your ISP appears to rate limit your FlashVideo downloads. In our tests, downloads using control flows achieved up to 6723 Kbps while down
by MattBearman 16y ago
My results for Flash:
Your ISP appears to rate limit your FlashVideo downloads. In our tests, downloads using control flows achieved up to 6723 Kbps while downloads using FlashVideo achieved up to 9345 Kbps.
Your ISP appears to rate limit downloads on port 8080. In our tests, downloads on port 8080 achieved up to 9487 Kbps while downloads on port 42507 achieved up to 6723 Kbps.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the tests, but if my flash downloads where being rate limited the control would be faster, not slower?
In case anyone's interested, I'm in the UK, my ISP is Virgin - it's a 10mbit cable line.
- naz 16y agoIn this case, Virgin is giving higher priority to streaming video or lower priority to everything else. Traffic shaping works both ways.
- MattBearman 16y agoInteresting, the shaping only seems to occur on port 8080 - standard port 80 traffic generally runs at near enough 10mbits for me. Also the bit torrent test came back unshaped, I'd be interested to see what other Virgin UK users have.
- ZoFreX 16y agoVirgin have transparent caching proxies between you and the web, which may explain why some HTTP results were faster - they didn't have to leave the Virgin network.