 maartenaElmoPremium
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
kudos:1
 ·AT&T U-Verse
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| Pirates will find a way.... ...and so it goes to show that pirates will always find a way to circumvent technology. Since UDP is apperantly a lot more difficult to throttle, one can circumvent the current (and very expensive) throttling mechanisms in place.
The downside is that it will make ISP's more likely to implement caps. If they can't keep torrent traffic down ONLY, they will simply start capping ALL the traffic.
Quite frankly, for the few times I DO use a torrent app, i'd much rather be throttled then having my entire connection capped at a certain amount of data, because I use my connection for a LOT more.
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Markus
join:2005-05-27
Middlesboro, KY | That's what my old cable company, Cebridge, did. If you downloaded more than 30MB in something like 10 minutes, your whole connection would be throttled back to 1/4 speed for an hour. This occurred no matter the source of those 30MB; it wasn't just torrents. Sucky ass company. |
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It's just a matter of time before every ISP has a cap of some sort, as it's a source of easy money, especially as they don't actually have to do any of the work in creating an artificial bandwidth scarcity (just look at most of Europe, and even they don't have real competition). |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to maartena
wow that is a shit ISP, i could blow past 30mb with a single MMO patch blizzard BT style or standard HTTP EQ style.
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