NTL/Chorus (UPC) Traffic Shaping on Torrents?

stevenmu

Cabaal wrote: »

Certainly wasn't years back unless this is a recent change

Yep, as of version 6

(quote taken from a site about torrents that I think would be ok to link but haven't really checked it out so won't just in case)

BitTorrent Inc launched their rebranded version of uTorrent as BitTorrent 6.0. The good news is that uTorrent and its community will not be replaced. Not now, and not in the future.

The rebranded version of uTorrent looks just like the original uTorrent client, however, it now includes BitTorrent DNA. Another significant change is the absence of the built in search for sites like ********, ******and The *******. However, you can easily add those under options –> preferences.

Last year, when BitTorrent Inc acquired uTorrent, it was said that the client will continue to have its own website and community for a while. Many expected that the launch of the rebranded uTorrent client as the mainline BitTorrent client would be the end of uTorrent, but this is not the case. When we asked BitTorrent Inc CEO Ashwin Navin about the future of uTorrent and the uTorrent community he told us:

“utorrent.com and uTorrent community will exist indefinitely. It’s vibrant and growing, and we value the feedback provided in the forums a lot. It is not our plan to fold utorrent.com into bittorrent.com, but foster growth for both independently.”

Great news, but some (former) uTorrent users will always have their doubts. Ever since BitTorrent Inc took over, a lot of rumors started popping up, and uTorrent was even banned from several private BitTorrent trackers.

Most people were afraid that uTorrent was sending data to the MPAA or other anti-piracy outfits. These rumors were fueled by the fact that one of the uTorrent Beta releases was marked as a trojan by some anti-virus applications. Here at ******* we looked into the suspicious behavior reported by some of our readers, but up until now we did not find any hard evidence to support these claims. With Wireshark we tried to replicate the findings reported by some users several times, both on virtual machines and in use systems, but we didn’t find anything suspicious.

But I’m sure this won’t comfort the really paranoid people among us.

(article dated july 07)

Hellrazer

Hellrazer wrote: »

Anyone know if theyre throttling torrents in Maynooth??

Can anyone confirm whether this is happening in Maynooth before I sign up?

jimmycrackcorm

I'm on the 20mb connection and as soon as I try to use uTorrent, I get slow speeds for browsing in general. I'm not using port 80 but a port forward and encryption turned on.

How can they tell if I'm using a torrent client as I have other applications such as ORB that have a dedicated port with significant uploads?

MrVestek

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

How can they tell if I'm using a torrent client as I have other applications such as ORB that have a dedicated port with significant uploads?

Easy, using programs like this:

http://www.arbornetworks.com/en/ellacoya-e100.html

stevenmu

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

I'm on the 20mb connection and as soon as I try to use uTorrent, I get slow speeds for browsing in general. I'm not using port 80 but a port forward and encryption turned on.

How can they tell if I'm using a torrent client as I have other applications such as ORB that have a dedicated port with significant uploads?

I think with torrents aswell the sheer number of connections being made can cause slowdown, I think the router gets a bit tied up trying to deal with them all.

JPA

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

I'm on the 20mb connection and as soon as I try to use uTorrent, I get slow speeds for browsing in general. I'm not using port 80 but a port forward and encryption turned on.

How can they tell if I'm using a torrent client as I have other applications such as ORB that have a dedicated port with significant uploads?

That could be a different issue than traffic shaping.
Try applying the patch from this site http://www.lvllord.de/ if you're on windows xp.

Blindpew

I used that patch when I had xp and it made a big difference on torrent speeds. I often think when people complain of slow speeds that the problem is of misconfiguration. Max connections per torrent should be set at around 200 and not unlimited. You'll get better speeds that way.

thebman

Also MTU on the router is rarely changed by people. I optimised my torrent settings the other night and was getting 150KB/s on a 2Mb connection.

I used to get 30KB/s and it looked like traffic shapping was blocking it. I'm using Vista so I didn't tweak OS settings but just Utorrent and router settings.

Cabaal

since this thread is more general then UPC anymore I think its time to create a new sticky to cover all ISP's and P2P use.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=56552490

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