Encrypted BitTorrent Party Over? Rogers users say the ISP has evolved traffic shaping efforts As more and more ISPs began to throttle customers who used Bit Torrent, a growing number of BitTorrent clients began to implement encryption to try to get around the traffic shaping. Resident users of Canadian cable broadband provider Rogers say their encrypted BitTorrent clients are no longer working. They surmise that Rogers has updated Cisco traffic-shaping hardware to perform more sophisticated deep packet inspection to again limit BitTorrent bandwidth consumption. Some users are using VPN software SecureIX to get around the new traffic shaping efforts, with mixed results. Of course, like RCN admits to doing, providers can also limit the number of overall connection BT clients can make, which also makes encryption largely useless.
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Re: Go figure... said by thender2:said by Jerm:Why is it always these Canadian Cable ISPs that trottle? Very simple. Canada > US Canada > * Fixed it for ya ! | |
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