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Playing on a low speed network

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So the end of the month approaches and my beloved ISP lowered my connection to around symmetric 300kbps (thats kilobits per second).

Now, the bot still opens ok, but when hitting Start, the button stays grayed out (instead of turning to Stop) until eventually there is a CommunicationException. Logs attached

View attachment 13512 2015-11-16 21.21.txt
 
Hi, Scoplastico,

We find it hard to believe that a 300k symmetric UL/DL speed is insufficient to run Honorbuddy. We're checking with the Senior staff about some timing issues.

In the meantime, could we do these two things:

Please let us know the findings, and toss a fresh log.

cheers,
chinajade
 
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Unfortunately, Speedtest (as well as other flash-based websites like youtube or twitch) does not even fully load when I'm under these conditions. I can tell that my connection is at around 300kbps because I get 30kb/s (give or take) maximum download speed when I enable Google Drive client.

I actually did have all Buddy Store products' streaming disabled at the time of the log in the original post since I originally had problems with checking the streamed products too (HB wouldn't fully boot).
 
Hi again, Sacoplastico,

We simply don't understand this. We can understand why youtube or twitch might fail at these speeds. However, speedtest should work.

Believe it or not, upload speed also influences download speed since acknowledgment (or throttling) packets must be sent back to the source. The specifics vary by protocol or app. Latency (high ping times) can also affect the download throughput for the same reasons. This is why we were interested in the measurements.

It sounds like your ISP may be doing more than simply throttling your traffic. Could they have possibly placed filters on your traffic for ports other than say HTTP?

cheers,
chinajade
 
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Hello,

Yes, it is totally possible that my ISP does any kind of whatever they want. They just state that they are entitled to constrain my network connectivity under their fair use agreement, which in our country (Portugal) means they can do whatever they want, whenever they want. So they can apply any kind of port- or protocol-based constraint, limiting or denying the access altogether.

That might be the reason why speedtest and the other websites do not load, even if I leave them loading, say, overnight. The website itself does load, but the flash application does not. I can't tell exactly why that happens.

In fact I mentioned that I have symmetric 300kbps because under normal circumstances my connection is (roughly) symmetric. I just made a test uploading a big file to DropBox and the upload stabilized at around 25 kB/s wich would mean I have roughly 250kbps of upload speed.

I understand this situation is very specific and possibly very hard to solve, but I would like to understand if there is anything that I can do to just make HB work, even if not in perfect condition.

If it is of any help, I have a ping of ~30ms to google.com and ~70ms to thebuddyforum.com and buddyauth.com
 
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Definitive not a bandwidth problem. I run 3 Bots on a permanent 360kb connection (Thailand UMTS limited connection) and i have 0 Problems.
WoW runs with a latency of under 250, which is enough for botting.
1 connection set (WoW+HB) needs about 25-30 kbps and jumps up to a little over 100 if you are in major cities (Orgrimmar/Stormwind)
 
You could try TunnelBear, it a free VPN, ad-free. Try Honorbuddy with it, maybe your IPS is filtering some connections...
 
Don't use those high resource "speed test sites".

Use this completely HTML5 based speed test site -- Go to speedof.me -- very simple slim and sexy. I use it for anything including mobile devices.
 
ExOkeo said:
You could try TunnelBear, it a free VPN, ad-free. Try Honorbuddy with it, maybe your IPS is filtering some connections...
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Hi again, Sacoplastico,

ExOkeo's advice is definitely worth pursuing. Using a V-P-N tunnel (if you can) may allow you to bypass some of the ISP's possible port-blocking issues.

Just an FYI note...
speedtests using VPNs will be meaningless. They measure the speed from the VPN exit endpoint to the destination, not the speed from your computer to the destination.

cheers,
chinajade
 
Hello,

I gave it a shot on speedof.me and got the following results which I have a very hard time trusting:

Download Speed: 18.01 Mbps
Upload Speed: 6.96 Mbps

The only plausible explanation would be my ISP having different traffic restrictions for different domains/IPs/protocols.

I will now give it a try with a VPN and come back with the results.

UPDATE: With the VPN the bot seems to work correctly, so I believe it is safe to assume this is some kind of restriction being applied by my ISP.

UPDATE2: With the VPN my whole connection did get better. I can now browse Youtube, Twitch and so on, so I guess I will have to keep this in mind for the future.
 
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sacoplastico said:
Hello,

I gave it a shot on speedof.me and got the following results which I have a very hard time trusting:

Download Speed: 18.01 Mbps
Upload Speed: 6.96 Mbps

The only plausible explanation would be my ISP having different traffic restrictions for different domains/IPs/protocols.

I will now give it a try with a VPN and come back with the results.

UPDATE: With the VPN the bot seems to work correctly, so I believe it is safe to assume this is some kind of restriction being applied by my ISP.

UPDATE2: With the VPN my whole connection did get better. I can now browse Youtube, Twitch and so on, so I guess I will have to keep this in mind for the future.
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Good to know, and no that site doesn't just lie.. :)

VPN fixes all! Damn ISPs..
 
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