Internet Speed Caps – Nightmare.
Posted by Honoo on May 4, 2009
Connection Speed Caps…
… is apparently the worst thing I’ve ever heard in my life.
Experienced during one of my rare visits to an Internet outlet over here in this oh-how-I-am-so-bored-already residency college.
Wait, what makes it so bad over here?
With connection speed caps, you won’t:
- Be able to download a MP3 file which usually takes you a short time. You can, although it’ll take more than twice the amount of time you actually need.
- Open more than a single web Page at a time. ‘Nuff said.
- Online gaming. Period. Happy getting timed out from the server due to lost connection thanks to the speed caps, whee!
What makes it worse is that the speed cap over here is cumulative – in other words, the speed caps include your happy IM-ing connections, downloads, web-surfing, everything – as long as they use the Internet, they’ll tally up to your bandwidth usage before it hits the speed cap. After it hits the limits, your downloads won’t go any faster and any more connections that requires the use of your current line will probably fail.
Pinging www.l.google.com [64.233.189.147] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 64.233.189.147: bytes=32 time=48ms TTL=244
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 64.233.189.147: bytes=32 time=49ms TTL=245
Request timed out.
Reply from 64.233.189.147: bytes=32 time=48ms TTL=244
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.Ping statistics for 64.233.189.147:
Packets: Sent = 20, Received = 3, Lost = 17 (85% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 48ms, Maximum = 49ms, Average = 48ms
And this is done while I’m downloading a 24MB file (to be exact, the oh-so-new IE8). As you can see, you’d probably wonder where the rest of the data packets went, after seeing my connection suffer that high amount of data loss. My conclusion? They went nowhere! So take this as a lesson: do NOT go to cybercafés practicing speed capping on their units (Yeah, irony on me).
krikit said
google got timed out…lol
Honoo said
@ Krikit: Because it’s just awesome like that.
Hangmen said
Even surfing Lowyat and other local pages are slow!
Honoo said
Hangmen: Do not need to say about Lowyat, the ping times are somewhat worse than Google. Which is weird.
… goddamn CC imposing speed cap. >_>