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by ZenPro
4417 days ago
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The downvotes were because the throttling en masse that you speak of is largely non-existent. There are problems in the UK with achieving advertised speeds (you are correct it's misleading) but it is not because of ISP throttling traffic. Normally it is that the UK infrastructure outside of London and the South West is plagued by huge distances to the exchange (> 6 kilometres) making the advertised speeds nothing but a dream. Most ISPs in the UK are extremely tolerant of torrenting as a fact of life. It was only when a court order forced them to do so that they blocked access to kickasstorrents et al. When the mirrors sprung up the ISPs refused to block access since the court order was very specific what they had to do to comply. You said kat.ph specifically Judge nothing to do with katph.eu... The Talk Talk CEO actually blogged about the ridiculousness of the legislation and stated they absolutely would not send letters to users of the service accused of illegal piracy. The throttling you think you are seeing is normally caused by legitimate issues. Although you are correct some ISPs have a fair use limit but that is becoming rare to non-existent (even across our mobile spectrum - most plans are all you can eat data). |
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Really? Well, let me elaborate on what I've explicitly described as the situation I've encountered personally, as opposed to anecdotally. Though it should be obvious by the fact that I give ample indication that I'm absolutely certain what I encountered through the means I used to circumvent it. It has nothing to do with the blocking of websites (kickasstorrents or otherwise). My problem is the use of L7 packet filtering/deep packet inspection to identify and connections using torrents and penalize them for it. As I stated, I'm peeved about this because it inhibits my sync solution, so no .torrent files or public trackers are involved at all. In some cases the ISP doesn't just throttle the "offending" traffic, the throttle the entire connection.
You don't need to believe me, on this - here're a whole bunch citations, including from the horses mouth:
EE Section 2: Traffic management to optimise network utilisation (what happens during busy times and places in addition to traffic management as described in section 1)
Source: http://ee.co.uk/content/dam/ee-help/e-gain.s3.amazonaws.com/...Virgin Media Virgin Media also manages P2P traffic and in its Fair Use Policy explicitly points the finger at proscribed sites like Limewire, Gnutella and BitTorrent. Access to newsgroup services like Usenet are also restricted, with those accessing similar sites subjected to slower connection speeds. On services where you get speeds of above 30Mbps, your connection speed will be halved for a 5 hour period if you exceed the following limits: Source: http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/News/Article.asp?TextID=1554
Also have a look at the UK section of: https://torrentfreak.com/new-data-exposes-bittorrent-throttl...
Or the broadbandbuyer link at the top or: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2292840/ofcom-publishes-inter...
Got bored of searching at this point, but DDGing or googling for virtually every ISP I could think of in conjunction with "site:co.uk" and combinations of "AUP" "Fair Use" "Throttle", "Peer to peer" "p2p" and "bit torrent" returns matches that at least from the summary text seem to indicate they do implement it in some form.
How about you, or some other helpful poster, instead of down voting me, point me in the direction of some ISPs that don't throttle, as I obviously haven't been able to find any? :)