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broadband and p2p throttling

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ok so this is a new issue for me since I moved to the UK pretty recently, in Finland I never had this problem, but here it seems pretty much every ISP likes to throttle bandwidth if you're downloading torrents or something, it's like using a friggin' modem sometimes. now is there anything I can do about it or do I just have to learn to live with it?
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You should probably move on to a better ISP that doesn't throttle. :/

Do you live near a university WLAN or could you get a university account? That might help, too. Or just try to use a random WLAN nearby.
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lol uk = arcane technology


But meh... australia sux too with its internet.
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Our ISP named comcast started doing the same thing but I haven't used bittorrent in awhile to actually notice a difference. I think people found some work around to be able to get past the throttle but I don't know the details. If you search for comcast you will probably find some clues.
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Yeah, no suprise there.
Comcast is in bed with Time/Warner.

I was thinking of switching to Comcast for the $99 bundle deal, and their cable internet is screaming here. Fuck that. What good is the extra bandwidth if they throttle it like that?

What do they give a fuck? Packets aren't movies, they're jumbled up 1s and 0s. What legal basis do they have for blocking that?
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Whereabouts in UK do you live?
In London, I use Bethere (bethere.co.uk) and my torrents are also limited, so I use rapidshare for 99% of the things that I download.
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How can torrents be limited, afaik the ports can be altered. Are they actually sniffing out what files you download?
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A dude I work with said his daughter was using P2P - to download rugby games supposedly. But Comcast sent him a letter stating "stop downloading X movie" they cited the title, but he claims his daughter wasn't d/ling any movies. I know it sounds naive of him "daddy I only downloaded a game", but the guy is MCSE so he would know better than her what's going on.
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What, you aren't allowed to download illegal copies of copyright protected material?


This is outrageous! >:(
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Liam wrote:How can torrents be limited, afaik the ports can be altered. Are they actually sniffing out what files you download?
it's not sniffing, it's "packet inspection".
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Gimp Mask wrote:
Liam wrote:How can torrents be limited, afaik the ports can be altered. Are they actually sniffing out what files you download?
it's not sniffing, it's "packet inspection".
good thing the industry has the rights to just sniff through your stuff, fuck privacy and civil rights
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change the port. if that's not successful you could try tunnelling, which is tiresome but should surely work. see for example: http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-over-ssh-071014/

or you could always come to canada, one of the last bastions of internet freedom, but not for long - artist's unions are bullying de feds to put huge surcharges on blank media (apparently there's no such thing as legit u$e) and for isps to sniff out packets, there has been minimal protest but it looks like the necessary infrastructure is already in place & the wheels are in motion :( pretty :suicide: aight.
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I heard the DEA nazis want to arrest your major dope seed dealer and your gov't is too faggy to speak up :[
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atoga wrote:change the port. if that's not successful you could try tunnelling, which is tiresome but should surely work. see for example: http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-over-ssh-071014/
well i found out my ISP (Virgin) is not throttling P2P, but is limiting bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume, and also limiting at certain times of day. :rofl:

Anyway, as far as I know, changing ports doesn't necessarily help since they can detect bittorrent etc by packet inspection or packet profiling. And using VPN such as Relakks usually results in a massive performance hit so I don't think it's a great solution for downloadz (unless you know of better services/methods than Relakks?)
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I found that utorrent's encryption, when enabled, usually allows you to get around throttling for torrents at any rate.

EDIT: I've been with 3 different ISP's since getting broadband (Cogeco, Rogers and Sympatico) and have yet to receive any bullshit letters telling me not to download copyrighted material.
I know people who have gotten them and been pissed when they got their net cut off for it. Gotta love Canada.
I figure somethings coming though, I've had two 75gig download months back-to-back.
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Gimp Mask wrote:
atoga wrote:change the port. if that's not successful you could try tunnelling, which is tiresome but should surely work. see for example: http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-over-ssh-071014/
well i found out my ISP (Virgin) is not throttling P2P, but is limiting bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume, and also limiting at certain times of day. :rofl:
virgin isnt that bad for doing that. ntl sometimes just shut my account off for days at a time. and when i had 56k they rang the house up saying we were using too much bandwatch, DOH lol
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ApTyp wrote:
Cimmerian Nights wrote:A dude I work with said his daughter was using P2P - to download rugby games supposedly. But Comcast sent him a letter stating "stop downloading X movie" they cited the title, but he claims his daughter wasn't d/ling any movies. I know it sounds naive of him "daddy I only downloaded a game", but the guy is MCSE so he would know better than her what's going on.
He lied to you to make you paranoid about downloading movies from the internet. Coworkers do this all the time.

Sometimes "coworkers" are assigned to watch you.

That's their Real Job: "Coworker".

Sorta like temps, but it's a professional job.

They have to have a degree in psychology or sociology and pass some kind of Civil Service exam.

Sort of like Stealth Marketing.

It's proactive stealth policing.


They get $500-$2000 a month plus benefits on top of the pay for their Duty Assignment.
("Duty Assignment" being whatever job they have in order to be your coworker.)

struth!





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