Comments on: BitTorrent Friendly Bandwidth Throttler?

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:49:15 +0000

I’m about fed up with kids and their sense of entitlement, and I’m only 25 mind you. Answer this, if you pay $45/month for your connection, and some “old biddy” down the road pays $45/month for the same type of connection, why should he get his email slower because of your behavior? Traffic shaping shouldn’t be about flat out blocking and controlling services, but rather providing the tools to level the playing field so that all the other customers get what they paid for as well.

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Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:47:52 +0000

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By: hykx

hykx — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:04:51 +0000

So he takes the time to reply to a community site and you kiddies flame him?

I personally disagree with shaping so some old biddy can get her email faster, but its still warranting of respect that he gave us an answer like that.

By: CDNguy

CDNguy — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:35:26 +0000

Nice comments guys. Its nice to see that we keep the discussion above the juvenile.

By: TGHI

TGHI — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:19:11 +0000

I second the above notion.

By: Rod Johnson

Rod Johnson — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:42:29 +0000

Hey, Art: go to hell.

By: art reisman

art reisman — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:11:56 +0000

Sorry for any confusion on the site.. just a couple points

Yes we do actually keep Bittorrent in check , even encrypted streams. We are not trying to make outragous marketing claims, just trying to inform.

As for how we do it: we simply look at the behavior of bittorrent users… they open lots of connections and use lots of bandwidth , we have not seen anything else behave this way, so we can safely make assumptions when we see this type of activity on a network it is Bittorrent like.

No we are not out to rid the world of Bittorrent downloads , that is not our intention.. its just that these things clog up networks with an unfair advantage…so keeping a balance is the comprimise we try to attain.

We recommend to our customers that they use our products to slow them (Bittorents) down and keep them in balance. We advise against trying the total block as that just creates an arms race with ISPs and torrent developers which is unproductive.

Art Reisman
CEO
http://www.netequalizer.com

By: Yatti

Yatti — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:25:53 +0000

Rogers shapers are evil and they do somehow seem 2 keep speeds down on ecrypted traffic.. I wish i had the newspaper cutout id know right away if they are the same devices etc.

By: SiTRiC

SiTRiC — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:07:10 +0000

haha….
this will purge the large FTP and HTTP downloads!