The Construct

Just a quickie. I just noticed that I get 180 prefix when I connect recently. Maybe starting around a week ago. I used to get the dreaded 203 or 222 prefix which meant that I’m on their oftentimes shared public IP.

I used to have such bad luck with Globe’s shared public IP addresses. That meant I can’t use file sharing sites Rapidshare and sometimes when some dolt Globelines user had been idiotic enough to get banned (by IP) in some sites, I’m locked out as well.

Those times, I had to reconnect for several times before I get a more decent IP address. But now that I’m getting the new 180 prefix. Still dynamic but it appears that I don’t have the shared IP problem with most sites. And my uTorrent is still getting that green notification meaning that my port forwarding settings are still good.

Looks like things are looking great.

I’m a sucker for reading fineprints and Kyam already warned me of this before I applied so I know of their Peer-to-Peer bandwidth cap which states:

Peer-to-Peer download speed is restricted to a maximum of 20% of the subscribed maximum speed regardless of type of plan. Should the subscriber use the Service beyond the allowable parameters as provided herein in violation of the Acceptable Use Policy, then INNOVE reserves the right to limit the Subscriber’s service. The download volume allowance is in accordance with the following schedule whether time-based or regular packages: 256kbps – 10 Gigabytes per month; 384 kbps – 15 Gigabytes per month; 512 kbps plan – 20 Gigabytes per month; 1.0 Mbps – 25 Gigabytes per month; 1.5 Mbps – 30 Gigabytes per mopnth 2.0 Mbps – 35 Gigabytes per month; 3.0 Mbps – 50 Gigabytes per month.

I initially expected that the most I can get from my 2 Mbps connection is 50 kB/s for P2P. I had a few problems setting port-forwarding up during my first week on Globelines until I just reset everything to default and was amazed that only then was I able to get around 1.6 Mbps (200 kB/s) max on uTorrent. I was pretty satisfied with my connection until three days ago when all I can get was around 44 kBps when torrenting. All direct downloads seemed okay. Speedtest shows that I’m still getting 1.6 Mbps on the average.

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