ISP Throttling

[SwimConnerSwim]

I think Cablevision is throttling my bit toorent connection. Anyway around this?

To clarify, I'm using a program... Lets call it "UT" with port forwarding enabled to the port used by the program. I'm using the current stable version 1.7.7. I've tried unplugging my modem and router, nothing is helping. It just started happening. I can't get past 18kbs a second on a download. Last week I was getting 200 kbs per second.

MOD EDIT: For your protection, and ours. :)

[d0uche_n0zzle]

When you log off the computer for the day/night, just unplug your router. It should get you a new IP when you turn it on eight or more hours later.

[burky79]

Same here, but I get a lil different reaction...

I hit speeds of 180-200, but they will slowly scale back to 150, 120, 110, 80, 50, etc. all the way down to 5k... then spike back up to 100, 150, 200.

It averages out to about a solid 50k per hour, but two weeks ago, I was 200+ consistantly.

WideOpenWest is my cable provider and I am using UTorrent 1.8 Beta. I am gonna switch my torretns to Azareus tomorrow and see if that's it.

I left the MoDem off over night and got a new IP, but same thing.

[Ballbuster1]

Same here, but I get a lil different reaction...

I hit speeds of 180-200, but they will slowly scale back to 150, 120, 110, 80, 50, etc. all the way down to 5k... then spike back up to 100, 150, 200.

It averages out to about a solid 50k per hour, but two weeks ago, I was 200+ consistantly.

WideOpenWest is my cable provider and I am using UTorrent 1.8 Beta. I am gonna switch my torretns to Azareus tomorrow and see if that's it.

I use Azureus and it does the same thing to me. Up and down constantly.
I'm using Comcast cable.

[burky79]

I use Azureus and it does the same thing to me. Up and down constantly.
I'm using Comcast cable.

Damn, must be my provider... oh well, I'm sure someone will come up with a work around here!

[roche]

Never tried it but you can try this

http://azureuswiki.com/index.php/Avoid_traffic_shaping

[zagman76]

I think Cablevision is throttling my bit toorent connection. Anyway around this?



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[Jambi]

Go here (http://broadband.mpi-sws.mpg.de/transparency/) to check if your ISP is actually throttling your P2P traffic.

There's an informative article on this very topic in the July 2008 edition of PCWorld. I don't feel like typing the whole fucking thing out, so we'll have to take this one step at a time. :)

[SaltyDelights]

I use Usenet and love it, despite AG Cuomo's recent efforts to spoil my fun. (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9967119-38.html):icon_mrgr

My speed is always 10 mbps (except on some evenings). Unfortunatly, if something hasn't been posted in over 200 days, Giganews doesn't have it.Go here (http://broadband.mpi-sws.mpg.de/transparency/) to check if your ISP is actually throttling your P2P traffic.

There's an informative article on this very topic in the July 2008 edition of PCWorld. I don't feel like typing the whole fucking thing out, so we'll have to take this one step at a time. :)From that Web site, it seems an ISP can throttle based on port number, not on content of the information being transferred. Is this how it works?

[SwimConnerSwim]

Go here (http://broadband.mpi-sws.mpg.de/transparency/) to check if your ISP is actually throttling your P2P traffic.

There's an informative article on this very topic in the July 2008 edition of PCWorld. I don't feel like typing the whole fucking thing out, so we'll have to take this one step at a time. :)

I did that test this afternoon and it says I'm not being throttled on any of my ports. Something is fishy, and I don't believe it. I'm going to do the router trick tomorrow since I'm gone all day.

[Ren5150]

Cablevision cuts back your speed if you use Bit Torrent or any type of heavy upload/download applications. I had it when I lived in NY and they cut it within hours of starting torrents. To get it back, you have to call. Then they must call you back and read you some shit about abusing the network. Then they reset it. They are notorious for that shit. Check out www.broadbandreports.com and go to the cablevision forum. Go with verizon. If you are in a CV area, you should have VZ available.

[Jambi]

From that Web site, it seems an ISP can throttle based on port number, not on content of the information being transferred. Is this how it works?The default port for torrent traffic is 6881, and the ISP's are onto it.

[Bobobie]

Thats like telling them to look on the moon. :icon_roll

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[Bobobie]

I use Usenet and love it, despite AG Cuomo's recent efforts to spoil my fun. (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9967119-38.html):icon_mrgr

My speed is always 10 mbps (except on some evenings). Unfortunatly, if something hasn't been posted in over 200 days, Giganews doesn't have it.From that Web site, it seems an ISP can throttle based on port number, not on content of the information being transferred. Is this how it works?

I used to use the newsreaders but moved to a web based news source called easynews back in 98'. It automates most of the file assembly.

[DonTheTrucker]

Any chance it could be the fault of the seeders setting their upload rates to 1kb/s? I have had THAT problem quite often.

[oandapartycock]

Go here (http://broadband.mpi-sws.mpg.de/transparency/) to check if your ISP is actually throttling your P2P traffic.

There's an informative article on this very topic in the July 2008 edition of PCWorld. I don't feel like typing the whole fucking thing out, so we'll have to take this one step at a time. :)

That was a good link, it says my Time Warner account is not being throttled.

Here's the PCWorld article:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,145786/article.html

[Max Johnson]

http://www.hothardware.com/News/Google_To_Develop_ISP_Throttling_Detector/

[SwimConnerSwim]

Well, out of no where, my bit torrent took off like a r**ed ape. My up and down speeds are back. I don't know why, but I'm not complaining.

[ginaf20697]

Looks like the FCC is good for something at least

FCC poised to punish Comcast over Web blocking

By JOHN DUNBAR, Associated Press WriterSat Jul 26, 2:44 AM ET

A majority of members of the Federal Communications Commission have cast votes in favor of punishing Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers' Internet traffic, an agency official said Friday.

Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, was accused of violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet.

Three commissioners have voted in favor of an order reaching agreement with the finding, enough for a majority on the five-member commission. But the decision will not be final until all five members have cast their votes. The commission is scheduled to take up the issue at its Aug. 1 meeting.

The three votes in favor were Democrats Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein and Republican chairman Kevin Martin, who recommended the company be found in violation, according to the official, who asked not to be named because the vote was not yet final.

The potentially precedent-setting move stems from a complaint against Comcast that the company had blocked Internet traffic among users of a certain type of "file sharing" software that allows them to exchange large amounts of data.

The text of the order is not public. But Martin has said it will not include a fine. He also said it will require Comcast to stop its practice of blocking; provide details to the commission on the extent and manner in which the practice has been used; and to disclose to consumers details on future plans for managing its network going forward.

"I continue to believe that is imperative that all consumers have unfettered access to the Internet," Martin said in a statement released early Saturday morning. "I am pleased that a majority has agreed that the Commission both has the authority to and in fact will stop broadband service providers when they block or interfere with subscribers' access."

The FCC approved a policy statement in September 2005 that outlined a set of principles meant to ensure that broadband networks are "widely deployed, open, affordable and accessible to all consumers."

The principles, however, are "subject to reasonable network management."

Comcast spokeswoman Sena Fitzmaurice in a statement released Friday night said the company's network management practices are "reasonable, wholly consistent with industry practices and that we did not block access to Web sites or online applications, including peer-to-peer services."

The action is the first test of the agency's network neutrality principles. Members of both the House and Senate have sponsored network neutrality bills, but they have never come close to becoming law.

Large Internet service providers have fought against such regulation, arguing that it is a solution in search of a problem and that companies that spend billions on their networks must be free to manage traffic.