Hmm.
Tonight my 20Mb VM is very flaky and horribly slow. When I say horribly slow, I mean to the tune of the speed of a 28.8kbps modem, i.e. 2-3kBps
Interestingly, I did have my torrent client open, althought the bandwidth used was negligeable (about 20kBps up and down).
If I close this whilst downloading a file via http for example, my speed then shoots up from 2-3 kbytes/s to over 1MB/s
As soon as I open up torrets again, the speed drops to aforementioned slow speeds.
I've looked at my router (Linksys jobby running HyperWRT firmware) and the load is under 5% so can't see it being the router struggling to manage the TCP connections.
Is it traffic shaping? I've never experienced this before, and before I was upgraded from 10 to 20Mbit a month or two ago, things have been flying. I seem to remember NTL quoting that their 10Mbit connection was uncapped and not throttled in any way. I guess that's no longer the case VM have taken over?
Any ideas?