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« on: December 30, 2006, 03:54:30 PM »
Well, after insight upgraded there service in November, then they decided to start blocking torrents.  I have tried everything, and it is most definitly throtting, sad to say.  THIS SUCKS.
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« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2006, 06:00:04 PM »
i havent noticed anything.. but ok lol
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« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2006, 06:24:16 PM »
Welcome to the forum  natatkinson   wave  Welcome!
Could you tell us how they are doing this? Or I guess I meant how do you know this? (you know)
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« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2006, 06:28:50 PM »
natatkinson welcome to the forum

i doubt they are packet shaping but to test use utorrent and turn on encryption, if it goes faster on a few different torrents then they are, if it is the same speed then they are not.
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« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2006, 06:35:17 PM »
I have done that, I am using encryption and it has indeed increased speed, but I am still not back up to normal levels.  many people in my area have also felt the effect, so it is not just me.
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« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2006, 06:48:37 PM »
Quote from: natatkinson on December 30, 2006, 06:35:17 PM
I have done that, I am using encryption and it has indeed increased speed, but I am still not back up to normal levels.  many people in my area have also felt the effect, so it is not just me.

how many seeds are on the torrent and how many are you connecting to.
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« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2006, 06:58:42 PM »
there are 69 seeds and 577 peers.

with encryption turned on I am connected to 35 seeds, and 100 peers, on average.
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« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2006, 07:00:34 PM »
yup, i think its throttle.. i tried every port.. no luck... i'm getting a womping 25 kB/s right now
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« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2006, 09:04:28 PM »
Bummer. if they throttled hughes. I would have to shoot my dish and think dial-up.  confused2
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« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2006, 09:06:22 PM »
Quote from: tommie gorman on December 30, 2006, 09:04:28 PM
Bummer. if they throttled hughes. I would have to shoot my dish and think dial-up.  confused2

You could always driver over and pick it up, it would be just as fast.
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« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2006, 09:09:25 PM »
Quote from: coknuck on December 30, 2006, 09:06:22 PM
You could always driver over and pick it up, it would be just as fast.
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« Reply #11 on: December 30, 2006, 09:18:26 PM »
Always with the poor sat guy.  knuppel2
Hey your posts coknuck. 2006 for the year. And you finally made RTB's list.   laughing7
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« Reply #12 on: December 30, 2006, 09:25:14 PM »
I'm scared. Please don't beat 'ole Toby. 2funny 2funny 2funny
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« Reply #13 on: December 30, 2006, 09:55:39 PM »
  nono Not me. toby is too tricky. Yeah the kids have 3 of those movies. Toby is a sneaky little bast*rd.  evil6
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« Reply #14 on: December 30, 2006, 09:59:08 PM »
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« Reply #15 on: December 30, 2006, 10:15:41 PM »
Ahh.. I posted about this a couple of days ago.. I started noticing in about a week before Christmas or so...

Throttling has been my suspicion since, however, on *some* torrents, I'm still getting descent speeds.. but on the whole... no. 

Hopefully this thread doesn't die... Encryption doesn't help, I'm wondering what would be a good solution.

I'm assuming this is all due in part to the major headaches Insight were having after the upgrade, since it basically killed tons of peoples connections for weeks. Mine was severely injured for 2-3 weeks directly after the upgrade. I'm sure they noticed ton's of bandwidth going directly to bittorrenting, and decided the way to save their network was to kill bittorrent.

Is that ethical? Lots of people have internet solely for bittorrenting. I myself use it to Legally obtain Grateful Dead and Phish concerts. Free to trade, and free to share.  Nothing wrong with that. I know there is some fine print in there TOS that states basically they can change/add/remove any features or services at anytime, and the only way to deal with it is to terminate the service...

But one tends to figure, that when you pay for a service, such as the internet, you should be able to to with it what you will, in confines of the law and such.

What a nightmare.
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« Reply #16 on: December 30, 2006, 11:40:24 PM »
Try satelite for bad things from an ISP. We have a maximum usage before a slowdown. Called FAP.  angry You ain't  seen nothing yet to worry about, till you put up with that. Then dial-up speed for a while. ( a few hours I think)
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« Reply #17 on: December 30, 2006, 11:54:23 PM »
hah, yeah.. man, i'm hitting 20 kB/s right now on this one torrent
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