E-Mule traffic shaping ?

[plonkah]

Just migrated to NTL (Ire) and when first started things up earlier (10MB download), had up to 500K download speed. Now it is down to between 20-60K. Still have highid but when I try to check ports get "It is possible that your IPFilter includes the IP of this server, making a connectiontest impossible".

Not sure what is going on here but the inconsistency is annoying.

When I moved over to NTL, I had to change my Wireless router from fixed IP to DHCP for WAN. Port forwarding on high number ports and firewall no chnges (allow all both).

Anyone any ideas on what has happened and how I can get the high speed back ?

Thanks to all great posters here.

[FLL]

Connection obfuscation and random ports have historically been one way to avoid ISP limiting. Default eMule ports are easily blocked but it sounds like you aren't using thise anyway, you might try Random ports and see if at least a new port assignment gets high speeds for a while.

Make sure connection obfuscation is turned on so it's allowed, in your case you might experiment with requiring it (though that knocks out some clients). I haven't personally had many problems with limiting so I haven't been keeping up with the latest news, but at some point the devices ISPs buy to do the "Deep Packet Inspection" needed to effectively limit p2p will catch up with obfuscation, maybe they have already.

Does your ISP force an IP change regularly (e.g. daily?) That can effectively limit your downloads because a "High ID" means other clients can connect to you, and if you are forced to change IPs that can't happen.

[Debaser]

Just migrated to NTL (Ire) and when first started things up earlier (10MB download), had up to 500K download speed. Now it is down to between 20-60K. Still have highid but when I try to check ports get "It is possible that your IPFilter includes the IP of this server, making a connectiontest impossible".

Not sure what is going on here but the inconsistency is annoying.

When I moved over to NTL, I had to change my Wireless router from fixed IP to DHCP for WAN. Port forwarding on high number ports and firewall no chnges (allow all both).

Anyone any ideas on what has happened and how I can get the high speed back ?

Thanks to all great posters here.

Virgin Media (NTL) throttle bandwidth.
The reduction you experience comes as no surprise to me im afraid.

Get a 10MB account but expect to receive less than half of it