Traffic Shaping on TMNET Streamyx?

Everywhere I see people complaining that their Internet access speed via TMNET Streamyx is slow, and there are accusations that TMNET is using traffic shaping technology to limit bandwidth for certain applications. I don’t know how true are these, and have never bothered to check.

However lately I have been experiencing very slow Bittorrent traffic, as you can see from the table below. October traffic is much worse. I don’t really care too much as long as web browsing and POP traffic is fine. So far everything else seems fine but connections to GMail via POP3S / HTTP sometimes chokes.

While I know it is not valid (legally and morally) for me to complaint about slow P2P or bittorrent traffic, this is just an example of how slow things are becoming.

The table above is combined from 2 tables produced by trafvol.pl script downloaded from the Internet sometime ago. Measurements are taken only on the eth1 interface of my torrent box, which is the external interface connected to the router. Traffic above includes web traffic as the box is also running squid serving 4 PCs in my home.

I think October results will be much lower, as can be seen below the daily traffic passing through is less than 1GB (compare this to August and September daily values).

statistics last updated at 18:35:02 on 02. Oct 2006

I’m too tired to rant anymore, so from now on I’ll just see what happens, while praying that a miracle would happen and the Government will realize that if TM monopoly to the Internet goes on, their IT-vision for Malaysia is just a dream. Angan-angan Mat Jenin.