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10-19-2008, 08:47 PM
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*^[#@"'.,;:\|/:;,.'"@#]^* Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Leicester, England Posts: 3,659
|  ISP Torrent speed limitting
This is stupid, my ISP - TalkTalk limit my download speeds for torrents, not just abit. But a whole lot. It's insaine.
I start a torrent download and for the first 5 second you see it climb up to about 200Kbps, then SLAM - it goes down the 10kbps. Then you go speedtest.net with a ping of 1800ms and a download speed of 120K, instead of the 3Mb i'm paying for (And yes i am paying, noone else in the family cares about the internet)
I Could understand it limmiting my speed at 6pm on a saturday evening during peak heavy hours, but at 2am on a monday morning ? thats absurd. I bet they have little to no traffic at this time.
I'm using azureus with RC4 ecryption enabled. It's actuall kinda funny, you can tell they struggle to detect it for a few seconds because it suddenly shoots up to 250Kbps, and then it goes back down to 10 or 15kbps for the next 10 minutes, then back up to 250kbps. It's actually precisely every ten minutes, maybe the traffic limiter at my ISP rechecks that often.
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10-19-2008, 08:59 PM
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Freak Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: MN, USA Posts: 1,520
|  Re: ISP Torrent speed limitting
that really sucks.
because there are actually legal torrents out there
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10-19-2008, 09:02 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 5,469
| Re: ISP Torrent speed limitting
If you use uTorrent it has a data encryption option so that the bandwidth limiter can't tell the difference between a normal download and a torrent.
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10-19-2008, 09:22 PM
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*^[#@"'.,;:\|/:;,.'"@#]^* Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Leicester, England Posts: 3,659
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Yeh well the encrption isnt as good as the one on Azureus, and Azureus wont download it very fast. 
Last edited by Oreo; 10-19-2008 at 09:33 PM.
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10-19-2008, 09:49 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 5,897
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Originally Posted by Fat.Clown  that really sucks.
because there are actually legal torrents out there | We can start off with WoW players as all the updates are distributed via Bit Torrent/
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10-19-2008, 09:53 PM
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| Re: ISP Torrent speed limitting
Linux Distrobutions? I know that i get my Ubuntu and Kubuntu from torrents. Esaier to make sure you get the whole file.
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10-19-2008, 10:12 PM
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Future ex-member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Chehalis, WA Posts: 4,010
| Re: ISP Torrent speed limitting
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Originally Posted by Oreo Yeh well the encrption isnt as good as the one on Azureus, and Azureus wont download it very fast. | Just because it "isn't as good" doesn't mean it might for some odd reason work. It doesn't hurt any to give it a try. 
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10-20-2008, 02:14 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 20K Club Posts: 6,146
| Re: ISP Torrent speed limitting
I love utorrent myself.
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10-20-2008, 02:15 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 5,469
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Yeah uTorrent is much faster than Azureus for me.
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10-20-2008, 02:34 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,362
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Originally Posted by Mak213 Linux Distrobutions? I know that i get my Ubuntu and Kubuntu from torrents. Esaier to make sure you get the whole file. |
Yea I will be needing to post up a torrent some time of the progress I have made.
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