Tag Archives: bittorrent

Apr200829

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Bell’s throttling demonstrated

Earlier today I decided to run an experiment to see whether or not I was throttled. Long story short, I am. I saw on the DSLReports forums that Glasnost was probably not the best way for me to test since it primarily checks for RST packets. That is, it checks for blocking rather than throttling. [...]

Mar200830

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Bell’s throttling damages a lot more than P2P

I just discovered that TekSavvy has posted mrtg graphs of traffic before and after throttling. I notice that proportions between types of traffic are about the same, except P2P is a little bit smaller than before. What’s staggering is although proportions wind up being the same, overall traffic is down from 160 megabit to 40 [...]