Thus spake "schoie88": > I know it's the ISP. Forums full of similar problems with game > servers. they've admitted Stops dead at 7pm comes back at 10 pm. > Nothing else changes. If I try to load any p2p stuff [as a test] it > stops and starts at exactly same time. Apart from port 5050 can you > think of any other parameter that might be looked at? the ISP has > admitted to 'traffic shaping' at these times. > > cheers > David
Thinking out loud here... I would be amazed if whatever they're doing to shape traffic is targetting VASSAL specifically, since it uses hardly any bandwidth at all and they've probalby never heard of VASSAL in the first place. Some people have reported success at evading traffic shaping by turning on encryption in their file sharing programs; that's going to work only if the ISP is throttling traffic by examining packet contents and letting through unhindered anything it doesn't recognize, as VASSAL traffic is probably something that it wouldn't recognize... Hmm. -- J.
