I work in ISP and the biggest problem (and the reason) why P2P traffic is throttled, is the network abuse from the P2P programs side. If you are in Sweden and calling your neigbour you can expect low rate for the call. If you call Argentina, price is high, because traffic must pass Atlantic and many borders. Each byte that crossed Atlantic is many times more costly than the byte that is delivered to neighbour. Costly for you, users, because YOU pay for that cost, not anyone else. Megabit of traffic costs thousands in long distance and for some special destinations, and cost nearly zero in short distance or some other destinations. Both eMule and torrent clients are STUPID enough to do not care about that at all, happily downloading a 4MB torrent file piece from Argentina even when the source is available nearby.

Whats needed is the priority based on IP ranges. So, if many sources are available, client must connect from first priority IP ranges, then from second priority IP ranges, and so on. Its so simple to implement, compared to uTP. And the IP list file with priorities for every IP range, very similar format of IPFILTER.DAT in emule, will be prepared by ISP. The client can get the file by connecting to, for example _ip_priorities.reversednsname.provicer.com. I will post this to utorrent forum and see what happens. If they implement this, I will advice all millions of clients to use uTorrent only, on every invoice, for example. As an ISP I want to deliver the maximum possible speed for the interconnect budget I have, and IP priorities would allow to eliminate all throttling. Its the most popular files that kill the networks, not the rear files. And most popular files are usually offered locally, just the programs are stupid enough and connect to South America to get piece that is available nearby.

utorrent is for n00bs!!!

use cheaters clients FTW!!!

feedthe.net pwned

I have been using the newest alpha of UT for a couple days, the only prefs I changed was the encryption..

If anything I have seen an increase in performance…but really subtle, nothing to “pop” one over, LoL..

On files with very few seeds/leaches I gets speeds I would expect from other clients, on other more popular files I have reached DL speeds of 1.5 megs…

The client seems to find and connect to more seeds than I have noticed other clients connecting to, thats a PLUS…

Personally I like it, so far…

fuck them

Actually it does, you dumbass.

ISP’s back-haul pipes have contention ratios due to the costs (BT’s ‘cash-cow’) and in order to manage bandwidth so that it is somewhat ‘usable’ and so they can keep using their ‘unlimited’ logos.

Virgin Media is a different story, their bandwidth problem is down to wiring, which is very expensive to replace and would require replacing most of the fibre cabling around the UK.

Some of the backhaul fibres cables are so old that the new ones they lay have 5 times more capacity.

You can disable uTP by unticking ”Preferences > BitTorrent > Enable bandwidth management” if you want.

That is the atitude!

I agree people not happy should be lobbying congress to let them play in the broadband field.

We need more people willing to build their own netowrks and choose some backbone to connect to.

For every fiber in the ground in Asia there is 20 or more ISPs trying to get to use that and it is not owned by them. When the ecosystems in the U.S. and the entire Europe is like that ISP’s will have to stop bitching about and start working hard to advance their services until then you get people who feel entitled to their profits without regard to their costumers.

I tested uTorrent 2.0, and it is still not network friendly at all. My testing suggests that it’s just as nasty to web surfing, online gaming, and VoIP as before. BitTorrent still consumes 90% of the network and causes very high jitter.

You wrote, “I’m indeed very happy with [...] massive hard drives to store my CDs so I can use my jukebox software to stream my legally purchased tracks around my 5 bedroomed house. I just don’t agree with stealing and not purchasing media to sate your appetite for illicit free media.”

UK copyright law prevents the transfer of data across media types (eg from CD/DVD to hard-drive), even for private use. You would, therefore, support those who consider this a step too far, and be willing to criticise the industry bodies who have pursued individuals who have done it?

Or do you believe that, whatever the law says in a given country, it is correct for that country and should be obeyed? If so, I assume you would support Spain’s current position on private use of copyright works?

Which is it? Cant keep your cake and eat it :)