Are you being throttled?

[EricTheMagician]

Is anyone getting throttled by bitcasa?
I used to be able to hit 20-30MB/s, but now I'm only getting 2-3.

I'm not really sure if it's my server, but I tested on my laptop and it seems like I am being throttled.

[johoja12]

Looks like it -

Monitoring eth0... (press CTRL-C to stop)

rx: 5.79 Mbit/s 520 p/s tx: 116 kbit/s 210 p/s

Used to get 45-50 Mbit/s -- that sucks...makes this whole effort useless :(

Maybe its an issue on there end ? Have you asked them?

[EricTheMagician]

I feel like they are actually throttling us.

On amazon EC2, it costs them at most 120$ / TB transferred out, and they may be trying to limit their bleeding.

Maybe you could ask their customer support?

I think they may know me and give me bs answers.
Eric

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:46 AM, saqebakhter notifications@github.com
wrote:

Looks like it -
Monitoring eth0... (press CTRL-C to stop)
rx: 5.79 Mbit/s 520 p/s tx: 116 kbit/s 210 p/s
Used to get 45-50 Mbit/s -- that sucks...makes this whole effort useless :(

Maybe its an issue on there end ?

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[johoja12]

I've submitted a request to ask them what the issue is.

Is it possible to pretend to be the desktop client, and use those APIs instead?

[johoja12]

Let me know if anything changes for you in terms of speeds. Better / Or / Worse.

[johoja12]

They replied saying they don't throttle...

Sure they replied that.
How should they do that? Everyone use his own API Key, API Secret and so on...

[johoja12]

Any updates on this - anyone getting imporved speeds or its still not working? Makes this client slower than the offical one :(

Update speeds seem to be back to normal for me:

sakhter@sakhter-ubuntu:/mnt/BitcasaJS/Bitcasa Infinite Drive/Media/Movies2/Evil Dead (2013)$ rsync --partial --progress --append --rsh=ssh -r -h Evil\ Dead.mkv /tmp
sending incremental file list
Evil Dead.mkv
671.12M 14% 7.75MB/s 0:08:26

[EricTheMagician]

I've been away for a few days.
Is it still back to normal?

[johoja12]

Yes looks normal to me..

[johoja12]

Speeds seem to be back to normal -but when transcoding with Plex - it does not transcode the whole file - sometimes just a few minutes of the episode (it thinks the file is done ) ...this is with the dev branch - not sure if you guys are running into this issue.....

[EricTheMagician]

That’s actually normal. Plex Server throttles the transcoding after it’s successfully transcoded a certain a mount of time so that it can stream to multiple users better.

You can change the time in the plex/web server settings. 

In the "advanced options" of the transcoder section, you can set the "Transcoder default throttle buffer”. I have mine set to 5 minutes (300 seconds).

Eric

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:11 PM, saqebakhter notifications@github.com
wrote:

Speeds seem to be back to normal -but when transcoding with Plex - it does not transcode the whole file - sometimes just a few minutes of the episode (it thinks the file is done ) ...this is with the dev branch - not sure if you guys are running into this issue.....

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[johoja12]

Nope - that's not what I meant - I use plexsync , when plex starts to transcode something with the dev branch it thinks it's done before the episode is actually done i.e) plex only transcodes, and syncs 5 minutes for a 40 minute show....

Using the offical client it works fine - it also used to work fine in the main branch, any idea what could be causing this or if you into this problem...?

[EricTheMagician]

I have some ideas on that might be causing it, but I'm not totally sure.
Is it the same file that worked for you on the master branch and the dev branch?
Or is it two different files?