trekboy
join:2006-08-16
Benton, PA
 ·HughesNet Satellit..
| reply to fester
Re: [DW7000] Does HughesNet Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic?
While It would be very easy for me to believe that Hughes is throttling Bittorrent traffic, I think the majority of torrent slowness on Hughes is due to the fact that without a static IP you can't have incoming connections. Basically Hughes has an incoming firewall at the modem level, that you cannot disable. So whatever port you choose (6881 is the default I think) will be blocked.
Also I should warn you, it is theorized by some on this forum (including me) that using Bittorrent at all will mark you as an abuser for the 4pm-12am throttling. Just a friendly warning. 
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HughesNet | HN7000S | Pro Plan | .74 dish | 1-Watt Trans. | IA6 1433 MHz | Router 67.44.65.112 | Rate Code=256k 4/5 | NO Static IP | WRT54G w/ DD-WRT Firmware v23 sp2 |
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bumwolf
join:2007-04-21
Florence, AL
·HughesNet Satellit..
| Hughes does throttle torrenting during prime time. But if you have a torrent with alot of seeders then you can usually download at good speeds outside of prime time. Best thing to do is get utorrent set it's scheduler to go slow until the Fap free time and then turn the faucet wide open. I can usually nab 500 to 1gb in an overnight. Lot of it depends on what your downloading. The new beta version of utorrent works the best with Hughes. They've incorporated a protocol obfuscation method to get around packet shaping technology.
Hope that helps.
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Hughesnet | DW7000 | Pro Package | Windows XP SP2 | AMD Athlon 64 3000+ | 1GB RAM | ATI Radeon 9550 256MB | 250GB HDD |
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fester
@direcpc.com
| reply to trekboy
I don't use BitTorrent, but I wanted to see if this test can prove conclusively that Hughes DOES in fact throttle/shape BT traffic so they can be added to the list of ISPs that censor customer usage and the wiki be edited to reflect that as well (right now it only mentions what you said about the NAT problem that the NOC firewall causes and nothing about any traffic shaping). I realize the general consensus is that Hughes is unfriendly towards p2p (my theory as well), but I don't want to speculate if there are alternatives. 
So if anyone can complete the test and post their results, that would be great!
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HughesNet | DW7000 | Home Plan | .74 dish | 1-Watt Trans. | GC3 1360 MHz | Router 66.82.12.51 | Rate Code=256k 2/3 | NO Static IP | Airport Extreme Base Station Firmware v5.7 |
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