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Title: Problems with download speeds on Torrent sites
Post by: Adam Lincoln on July 09, 2007, 03:29:05 pm

Torrent spy, pirate bay, etc etc, dont get any download or upload speed. Anyone else having problems? Or have my isp blocked them?

Title: Re: Problems with download speeds on Torrent sites
Post by: Adam Lincoln on July 09, 2007, 03:43:42 pm

It seems isp's are doing what is known as throttling BT traffic. Apparantly its becoming more and more widespread. A few clients have traffic encryption, which i am about to turn on. Ill report back if i have any success.

Title: Re: Problems with download speeds on Torrent sites
Post by: Adam Lincoln on July 09, 2007, 04:24:31 pm

Utorrent works fine with encryption turned on

Title: Re: Problems with download speeds on Torrent sites
Post by: Stubbs on July 09, 2007, 04:25:17 pm

It's worth only running torrent things off peak time (i.e overnight) as there is less demand on the isp's then and they are less likely to reduce your bandwidth.

obviously copying kills creation etc etc and you wouldn't find me stealing music over the internet.....

Title: Re: Problems with download speeds on Torrent sites
Post by: ouch on July 11, 2007, 12:34:17 pm

I read somewhere that ISPs are sniffing out the torrent packets and throttling back the speed.  This is why turning on encryption works, they cant work it out from the packet.  You can also change the default torrent port to something else.  I use 443 which is supposed to be for https but I dont run a secure web server so it dont matter. 

Title: Re: Problems with download speeds on Torrent sites
Post by: Bubba on July 11, 2007, 11:37:40 pm

Worth shelling out for a decent isp sometimes

Title: Re: Problems with download speeds on Torrent sites
Post by: Jim on July 12, 2007, 09:23:30 am

I've been with pipex for a few years now, and decpite an average of 60 gig a month downloads, I've never had any bother

Title: Re: Problems with download speeds on Torrent sites
Post by: Bubba on July 12, 2007, 09:32:15 am

Same here with Nildram - not the cheapest but great connection and effectively no limits.

Title: Re: Problems with download speeds on Torrent sites
Post by: cofe on July 12, 2007, 03:12:36 pm

Quote from: Jim on July 12, 2007, 09:23:30 am

and decpite an average of 60 gig a month downloads,

eff me. you need to get out more word.