| > The downvotes were because the throttling en masse that you speak of is largely non-existent. 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) Slowed Down:
Peer to Peer (P2P) [x]
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? :) |
While P2P traffic is slowed, no other services - like gaming, newsgroups or VoIP - are subject to any throttling or traffic management and nor are they prioritised.
Apart from P2P throttling on its entry-level packages, BT does not shape or alter traffic in any way.
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Sky Broadband was for some time unique among the UK’s major ISPs in that it doesn’t apply any kind of traffic management at all, now others are following suit.Nothing is prioritised or de-prioritised at any time of the day or any day of the week, including P2P services like BitTorrent.
So when we said at the start of this piece that every ISP has a traffic management policy we weren’t wrong. Sky does have a policy, one which basically says ‘do what thou will’.
That still hasn’t stopped it complying with the UK Court Order and blocking The Pirate Bay.
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TalkTalk has removed all traffic management from its Essentials and Plus broadband products at all times, including P2P services (although like all the large ISPs some P2P sites are blocked).No type of traffic receives priority over any other, although TalkTalk Plus TV susbcribers will find around 4Mbps of their connection is set reserved for TV when their YouView box is streaming TV, in order to ensure a smooth, high quality picture
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REF [http://recombu.com/digital/news/isp-traffic-management-bt-sk...]
Helpful enough? :-)