On: Glasnost: Test if your ISP is shaping your traffic

[naz]

In this case, Virgin is giving higher priority to streaming video or lower priority to everything else. Traffic shaping works both ways.

[MattBearman → naz]

Interesting, the shaping only seems to occur on port 8080 - standard port 80 traffic generally runs at near enough 10mbits for me.

Also the bit torrent test came back unshaped, I'd be interested to see what other Virgin UK users have.

[ZoFreX → MattBearman]

Virgin have transparent caching proxies between you and the web, which may explain why some HTTP results were faster - they didn't have to leave the Virgin network.