Traffic shaping?

[.: Mac :.]

When viewing  any flash, quicktime or WMP based streaming video site I can hear sound fine but the video is like 2 frames per second! This happens on Ubuntu 6.10, OS X 10.4.9 and on XP SP2. Sound like traffic shaping to you? Charter Communications is my ISP Speed is supposed to be 3mbps this just started happening in the past week

[Negeltu]

Happens to me on Ubuntu sometimes.  Depends what the site is, but it usually happens with flash videos for me.  That and OpenGL performance is awful.  I need to update my graphics drivers.  It's a pain though...so I procrastinate.

[Marc57]

When viewing  any flash, quicktime or WMP based streaming video site I can hear sound fine but the video is like 2 frames per second! This happens on Ubuntu 6.10, OS X 10.4.9 and on XP SP2. Sound like traffic shaping to you? Charter Communications is my ISP Speed is supposed to be 3mbps this just started happening in the past week

When I had Charter there was no problem, But since they were bought by Suddenlink I have nothing but problems with my connection. Which is why in my area they're known as "Suddenstink"

[DavidR]

I don't think this is traffic shaping as that normally doesn't get used on http traffic. Traffic shaping is more normal on P2P traffic, where there is a high server load/bandwidth hit on the ISP.

My traffic is permanently shaped and hammered flat to get through a very narrow dial-up pipe

[OrangeCrate]

My traffic is permanently shaped and hammered flat to get through a very narrow dial-up pipe

Funny. 

[.: Mac :.]

When viewing  any flash, quicktime or WMP based streaming video site I can hear sound fine but the video is like 2 frames per second! This happens on Ubuntu 6.10, OS X 10.4.9 and on XP SP2. Sound like traffic shaping to you? Charter Communications is my ISP Speed is supposed to be 3mbps this just started happening in the past week

When I had Charter there was no problem, But since they were bought by Suddenlink I have nothing but problems with my connection. Which is why in my area they're known as "Suddenstink"

Same here marc, Im thinking of getting DSL. This month Charter charged me a $5 Modem lease fee despit the fact that I bought this modem from them 3 years ago!  They finally refunded it after about 40 min on the phone

[Marc57]

Had the same problem about a year ago. I bought a SB5100 from Circuit City because I was tired of paying their"rental" fees. Every month for THREE months I had to call and remind them that I owned my Modem and get them to take the rental fees off my bill.