[RndTbl] Strange Shaw traffic. Shaping?

[Bill Reid]

John Lange wrote:
> Just recently I noticed that when I try and upload a file from my Shaw
> home Xtreme account via SSH (scp), the transfer starts out quickly
> reaching nearly 1Mb, then my entire Shaw connection clamps right down
> and my ping times shoot through the roof (800ms).

> Is anyone else seeing this? Has Shaw started some heavy duty traffic
> shaping?
> 

I have not noticed this behaviour with Extreme.

I just now tried a few uploads of a 5M file. It would hit 200KB+ occassionally 
atr the start but average rate for all 4 uploads was the same 121.3K(even to 
different hosts).  That seems strange and sure sound like rate shaping.  If I 
did concurrent uploads I would get close to the 1Mbps throughput.

I wonder if "Power Boost" applies to uploading? My uploads peaked over 200K 
which is certainly higher than 1Mbps.

-- Bill