Comments on: BitTorrent Throttling Internet Providers Exposed

By: John

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:43:00 +0000

Comcast at 3%, huh? Well I’m most definitely in that 3%. I connect to peers for about 2 seconds before the connection gets cut off.

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By: Penguin_raf

Penguin_raf — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:34:00 +0000

I am from Poland and use UPC…have 25mb package and I never see any issues with d/l / /u/l speeds.. Around 2.5-3.0mbs down and up to 200kbs up..when I was living in nyc I had time warner 10mb package and I had around 1mb top d/l speed…so it seems the ratio stayed the same.

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By: Zig

Zig — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:43:00 +0000

Read the datasets on the site (as linked in TFA), it clearly states that even sites without throttling gave some false positives and that there was a margin of error which decreased with the increase of tests/valid tests.

“Glasnost seems to generate false positives of around 10% prior to August 2009 and of 4-5% after that – so some ISPs who do not throttle BT at all may show some positive results. The number of valid tests is important because the more valid tests done, the more reliable the results in the last column. E.g., ISPs for whom we have only 11-30 tests per quarter (only 1-2 tests per week) will be highly variable and thus less reliable than ISPs for whom we have >450 tests per quarter. We do not show results for ISPs with less than 10 results per quarter.”

http://dpi.ischool.syr.edu/MLab-Data.html

By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:25:00 +0000

You can’t subscribe for TV with O2 in the UK, so I’m betting that case of beer that they’re running different services across the EU depending on the different local infrastructures.

By: Scrutinicle

Scrutinicle — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:21:00 +0000

I used Virgin in the past and they throttled heavily if you downloaded anything for more than 20 minutes solid during ‘peak hours’ – 18:00 to 21:00 (not just P2P traffic, even http traffic). Made it impossible to watch BBC iPlayer during those ‘peak’ times, because nearly all BBC programmes are 25-30 mins long so the stream would begin buffering for the last 5 to 10 minutes! They didn’t just throttle your traffic for the peak period either – once they began throttling your connection the throttle then lasted until about 07:00 the next morning. It was like a kind of punishment for using their bandwidth. Needless to say they got dumped very quickly.

I switched to O2 and I don’t get any noticeable throttling at any time. They kindly gave me 12 months of FREE broadband because I already had a mobile phone contract with them and after the free period ended they give a reduced price monthly fee for their broadband if you still have a phone with them (contract or something like minimum £10pm top-up on PAYG).

From what I’ve heard, BE are one of the best around (they’re owned by O2) and never throttle any traffic at all.

As always, YMMV

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