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Virgin Media UK Begins Throttling P2P Traffic
An anonymous reader writes “The ISP which advertises itself as ‘The fastest in the UK’ and offers speeds of up to 100mbps has said it needs to throttle file sharing traffic to prevent slowness in other areas such as online multiplayer gaming. Trialing of the new traffic management plans commenced on March 2 and will only apply to upstream traffic, therefore download speeds will be unaffected …
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Question by specialboy201: What to do about ISP Throttling.?
I have Roadrunner 15/2 Through bright house. I live in Lakeland, FL. When I run my torrent program of choice (uTorrent) the speeds will be fine for say 30 seconds then drop down to sub Kb/s speeds. In addition when its running I cant get any website to work, update anything in windows, or even get my ps3 to sign into the PSN. I’ve got all my setting properly configured in terms of uTorrent and my router. I have no anti virus or anti spyware programs running. I also turned off windows firewall even though uTorrent has an exception rule put in place. Any thoughts or ideas would be wonderful. I’ll update with any info that someone thinks might be useful.
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Answer by RGBFoundry
It’s likely the ISP is throttling your traffic. If you can prove it, you could probably get a ton of negative media coverage against them.
Until then, encrypting your torrent traffic is a good way to prevent throttling. Here’s a link on how to do it. Scroll down to the specific instructions for uTorrent:
http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-encrypt-bittorrent-traffic/
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Question by Cole: do you think my ISP is throttling my internet?
Its always been 54.0 mbps now its down to 34.0 mpbs
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Answer by Ben
Your Internet connection from your ISP has not ever been 54.0Mbps. You are currently connected to an 802.11g Wi-Fi network, which has a maximum speed of 54Mbps. That is the connection from your computer to your router. It has absolutely nothing to do with the speed from your router to the rest of the Internet. There’s apparently more noise in your area right now (could be random, could be some stuff in the way) so the Wi-Fi card had to slow down a bit to make sure the router understands what it’s sending.
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