The more I think about it, the more I think you're right. I did some
usenet harvesting using encrypted connections and had no problem. If
only I could call earthlink and get in touch with someone in this
country. I'm guessing they don't tell their overseas tech support very
much.
On 02/23/2013 05:28 PM, Jason Spatafore wrote:
This is a classic example of QoS usage.
The VPN connection doesn't experience the problem because the QoS
settings for VPN would have a no throttling policy attached. SSH would
typically be non-throttled as well.
On 02/17/2013 08:02 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
For several weeks I've had a problem with my earthlink dsl service.
Anytime I'm doing something that uses all or most of my downstream
bandwidth, all data coming into or going out of my apartment stops.
At the same time I'm downloading something a series of updates for
kubuntu and listening to streaming audio, both stop. If I'm using my
windows box to download something else, that too stops. After a
pause lasting anywhere from a second or two to 15 or 20 seconds, the
downloads resume. A few seconds later, there's another pause. This
cycle repeats itself until the download is complete or I give up.
Each computer has two nics. The problem persists no matter which one
either machine is using for it's internet connection. If I remove
the router, connect the dsl modem directly to either computer, the
problem persists. I even went to the closet and got the modem when I
had dsl from AT&T. I set it to work with the earthlink service and
the problem persists.
Saturday an AT&T technician was here, checked the line from the cord
that plugs into the dsl modem and says the line is in excellent shape
and noise levels are very low. This is not surprising since I live
less than 1/4 mile from AT&T's local office where all their equipment is.
Since I've tried two computers, 4 nics, two dsl modems and removed
the router, and the problem still persists, I'm guessing the problem
is somewhere at earthlink's end.
Tonight at 21:30 EST, an earthlink tech support person from somewhere
in India called to tell me they had fixed the problem. While he was
on the phone I tried downloading something else and guess what. The
problem was not fixed. As near as I can tell, the dsl connection
does not go down. The earthlink people say it stays up. The lights
on the modem that are on when the connection is up never go off or blink.
The man asks me what dns settings I use. I tell him 8.8.8.8 and
8.8.4.4. He says I should try earthlink's dns servers. To humor him
I changed the settings on the windows box and guess what. The
problem did not go away.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it's my understanding that once the
download has begun, that dns has already done it's job and has no
further role to play. One more thing. If I use a VPN connection, I
have no problem with it.
Any idea what's going on? If you were to venture a guess, would you
say the problem is at my place, with AT&T or with Earthlink?
Thanks
Derek
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