Elisa Internet - throttling?

[bullacc]

Hmm... i thought i was the only one with this problem

Yup, it mostly happens when torrenting - and the problem is mainly somewhere in the DNS server. Your IP is leased for somewhere around 5 hours, and when those 5 hours are up, if you're torrenting the DNS server doesn't give you a new IP.

A small fix for this is to type in "Start > Run" the command "ipconfig /renew" before you start experiencing problems, and remember to do that every 4 hours or so - won't help if you run it after your connection is down.

Also, unplugging/pluggin in the modem will always do the trick when the connection fails because of this torrenting stuff.

[kay30]

Thanks for the update! Our is better too, but still spotty. Hopefully they can fix the problem soon.

[net_bh]

Just wanted to chirp in with a "me too". I live in Matinkylä.

Ping times to google.com are normally 36ms and on bad days go to 7000ms! And this is with minimal bittorrent traffic (20kbps). I'm thinking of switching providers since Elisa can't seem to get their act together after 2 complaints.

[bullacc]

Just wanted to chirp in with a "me too". I live in Matinkylä.

Ping times to google.com are normally 36ms and on bad days go to 7000ms! And this is with minimal bittorrent traffic (20kbps). I'm thinking of switching providers since Elisa can't seem to get their act together after 2 complaints.

Ouch - 7000ms ???
It never got so bad on Welho for me - the connection just fails after some time, and i'm still not sure if the server is at fault for refusing to give me a new IP, or for the modem that cannot cope with getting a new IP when it's busy getting hit with so many torrent requests...

[net_bh]

Atleast with me the problem seems to be on Elisa's side. Power-cycling the ADSL modem cum router restores sub-40ms ping times. So it is as if all my TCP connections are somehow being messed with. Need to find some time to study the actual packet patterns...

[Upphew]

Atleast with me the problem seems to be on Elisa's side. Power-cycling the ADSL modem cum router restores sub-40ms ping times. So it is as if all my TCP connections are somehow being messed with. Need to find some time to study the actual packet patterns...

If booting the router helps, it might be the router that is faulty. It is known that some (older?) routers choke with torrents.

[net_bh]

If booting the router helps, it might be the router that is faulty. It is known that some (older?) routers choke with torrents.

But this problem start a few weeks ago. I have had this router for over 1 year.

[rob34]

The problem is probably with your torrent client.

I'll assume you are using µtorrent.

If so, I had to back up to one of the older versions. Fixed everything.

Or.. try a different client, see if that fixes it.

[net_bh]

The problem is probably with your torrent client.
I'll assume you are using µtorrent.
If so, I had to back up to one of the older versions. Fixed everything.
Or.. try a different client, see if that fixes it.

No. I'm on Linux and use Transmission client. But I don't have it running all the time. The problem even happens on day I am not using torrent.