British Expats - downloading with Etisalat

British Expats (https://britishexpats.com/forum/)

- Middle East (https://britishexpats.com/forum/middle-east-60/)

- - downloading with Etisalat (https://britishexpats.com/forum/middle-east-60/downloading-etisalat-793166/)

abudhabinewbie

Apr 7th 2013 5:13 am

downloading with Etisalat

Anyone have problems with downloading with etisalat? Im downloading torrents and only getting speeds of 10-30kbps which is crazy!

I did a line speend test and getting 7mbps

any help at all would be great as TV is rubbish here and will have to rely on downloads

thanks

Quackers

Apr 7th 2013 5:19 am

Re: downloading with Etisalat

Quote:

Originally Posted by abudhabinewbie (Post 10644253)

I had problems before trying to download movies so gave up and asked my mate in the UK to download and put them in 'Dropbox' for me....and I have 16 mb/s Etishite.

abudhabinewbie

Apr 7th 2013 5:33 am

Re: downloading with Etisalat

so is there no way round this?

Quackers

Apr 7th 2013 6:07 am

Re: downloading with Etisalat

Quote:

Originally Posted by abudhabinewbie (Post 10644264)

so is there no way round this?

Yes

Go to the pub :D

Blue Cat

Apr 7th 2013 6:18 am

Re: downloading with Etisalat

I have been finding downloading is taking a long time the last few days, I think there must be an issue with Etisalat.

busybee2

Apr 7th 2013 9:17 am

Re: downloading with Etisalat

Yeh probs with etislat and of course the cables....... its just very very slow and keeps dropping out. not much you can do about it.

abudhabinewbie

Apr 7th 2013 11:20 am

Re: downloading with Etisalat

no issue with general browsing just downloading torrents.......

abudhabinewbie

Apr 7th 2013 11:21 am

Re: downloading with Etisalat

will be going to a pub tomoro night quackers for the united game, most likely hemmingways if anyone is around

Quackers

Apr 8th 2013 6:17 am

Re: downloading with Etisalat

Quote:

Originally Posted by abudhabinewbie (Post 10644604)

will be going to a pub tomoro night quackers for the united game, most likely hemmingways if anyone is around

11pm kick off is too late for me as I'm up at 6am for work :(

Bongoman2

Apr 8th 2013 8:34 am

Re: downloading with Etisalat

Both du and Etisalat use traffic shaping on streams at peak hours.

They can tell the difference between torrents/skype etc and regular web traffic

jam25mack

Apr 8th 2013 11:58 am

Re: downloading with Etisalat

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bongoman2 (Post 10645874)

Both du and Etisalat use traffic shaping on streams at peak hours.

They can tell the difference between torrents/skype etc and regular web traffic

Mine is fine during the day just goes really slow after 9pm.

abudhabinewbie

Apr 9th 2013 4:54 am

Re: downloading with Etisalat

thanks for the advice guys, i left the laptop running overnight and the downloads were all complete. I do notice that some of the torrents download at 1mb for a few seconds and then drop to 100kbps and then back up again. very temperamental!

ukfb	Apr 9th 2013 10:17 am

Re: downloading with Etisalat

Now that Etisalat have 'officially' unblocked Skype I'm sure they'll be using the increase in Skype traffic as an excuse for network congestion and slow browsing speeds.

Facetime next apparently - hopefully it'll appear on the local phones and tablets.

Quackers

Apr 9th 2013 10:46 am

Re: downloading with Etisalat

Quote:

Originally Posted by ukfb (Post 10648571)

It's a bold move unblocking Skype lol...what next ? unblocking dating sites :p

All times are GMT. The time now is 2:55 pm.