For years now, many ISPs have sought to limit P2P traffic as they try to reduce bandwidth consumption due to their lack of preparation for the online video and music sharing boom. When it was first revealed that Comcast had been using hacker techniques …
Comcast has announced that it will stop targeting BitTorrent transfers and has said it will invest in its network capacity. For the time being the company will throttle users who use the most bandwidth, not all BitTorrent users per se. Comcast’s chief t …
… show in a few minutes. That is, if Canadian ISPs aren’t throttling their traffic. Update: It turns out that mininova is not seeding …
… there is little data available on the scope of BitTorrent throttling, a gap Azureus now plans to fill. “We at Vuze (Azureus) decided … of the plugin is to gather factual data on which ISPs are throttling with BitTorrent, and to what extent. Already there is an ever …
… says it has received reports that it effectively bypasses throttling but at this point they cannot confirm that it works in all cases …
When Comcast introduced the Sandvine traffic shaping solution, it hoped it could quietly interfere with its customer’s BitTorrent activities without getting too much attention. Unfortunately for them, their actions didn’t go unnoticed, and during August la …
… throttling is not a new phenomenon, ISPs have been doing it for years. When the … technique is especially designed to be a workaround for throttling devices, such as the Sandvine application that Comcast uses. More …
… behavior, many others use similar tactics. BitTorrent throttling has been going on for a few years now, but it is getting more … real problem is that ISPs tend to be secretive about their throttling efforts. If it really is that big of a problem, be open about it, …
… Comcast should move on and invest in the future instead of throttling and interfering with the traffic their customers paid for. …
