kastleK2L
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join:2005-10-28
Kanata, ON
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Re: [Extreme] Bittorrent is suddenly working for me....
said by ghost641  :Hi... My BT has been throttled for the better part of the last year ... Suddenly my bittorrent is working exactly as it is supposed to... has anyone else had this happen??? I had a similar experience earlier this week. I upgraded to the latest version of BitTornado which is supposed to have a new feature that makes it more difficult to throttle. Immediately, BT performed as it did prior to throttling. Immediate connections, high speeds up and down. I too was excited!
But today, things have deteriorated. Most of my torrent attempts are failing as they have been doing since throttling began in my area a month ago ... it's as if the throttle box learns to adapt to new situations. |
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puzz1ed
join:2005-02-20
Markham, ON
1 edit | said by kastleK2L :it's as if the throttle box learns to adapt to new situations. From reading a cited article on the P-Cube site, it seems they try to classify all kinds of traffic signatures and keep them updated kind of like virus updates. It is possible to implement encryption that is effectively impossible to decipher but it's more important to not give clues as to what type of communications is going on. Even when using things like SSH or VPN, there are markers that identify what it is so you can communicate. I suspect that what might happen though is that if P2P encryption becomes unidentifiable then all "unknown" traffic might end up being throttled.
Most users are just web and email people. I wonder what kinds of complaints would surface if they started to severely throttle "unknown traffic".
»www.p-cube.com/doc_root/products···1403.pdf |
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kastleK2L
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join:2005-10-28
Kanata, ON
| said by puzz1ed :said by kastleK2L :it's as if the throttle box learns to adapt to new situations. From reading a cited article on the P-Cube site, it seems they try to classify all kinds of traffic signatures and keep them updated .... Thanks for that link. I had previously looked at P-Cube's site but missed that paper. It gives us a pretty good idea of what we're facing. It seems that Rogers has picked the "upstream control" strategy (see p. 9) ... but I wish they'd follow the example case of limiting the subscriber to 24 kbps - right now, my upload is essentially zero!! |
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ravage777
join:2000-10-27
Mississauga, ON
2 edits | I decided to test out this throttling. I used ~59GB bandwidth last month. At the second week of this month, the BT speeds went straight down from ~400KB/sec on torrents with like ~5000 seeders/~1000 leechers to ~1-10KB/sec on EVERY torrent, legal or not. I have heard people say that Linux torrents usually have better seeders, nope. Still ~1-10KB/sec constantly. Some of the torrents go at less then 1KB/sec even. This is in Mississauga. |
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