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How to Check if Your ISP is Throttling Your BitTorrent Traffic [BitTorrent]

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2008-05-07 19:00:00 by posted by Pantha in
Our ISP is currently Comcast, which is probably definitely throttling torrent traffic in this area, but how can we know for sure? Here's how. There's now a website that runs a little test, determining whether your ISP is throttling all traffic, all traffic on well-known BT ports, only BT traffic on well-known BT ports, or nothing at all. The...
 
Tags: traffic, isp, torrent traffic, test, test takes, max planck institute, minutes, puretna downloads, ports
 
 
 
 
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How to Check if Your ISP is Throttling Your BitTorrent Traffic [BitTorrent]

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2008-05-07 15:00:00 by Jason Chen in Gizmodo
Our ISP is currently Comcast, which is probably definitely throttling torrent traffic in this area, but how can we know for sure? Here's how. There's now a website that runs a little test, determining whether your ISP is throttling all traffic, all traffic on well-known BT ports, only BT traffic on well-known BT ports, or nothing at all. The...
 
Tags: traffic, isp, torrent traffic, test, test takes, max planck institute, minutes, puretna downloads, ports
 
 
 
 
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See if your ISP slows BitTorrent traffic

2008-05-08 22:14:40 by HASH0x8bc136c in gadget life blog
 
Comcast made headlines recently for slowing down BitTorrent transfers, but other ISPs have largely escaped scrutiny, If youre wondering whether your ISP delivers the service you pay for, you may want to run a Web application called Glastnost . How does it work? Simple Our test sets up a series of BitTorrent flows between an end users host and 5...
 
Tags: isp, test, test servers, isp delivers, flow, bittorrent traffic, test sets, packet trace, packet
 
 
 
 
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Google Tools Will Tell You If Your ISP Is Slowing Down Your Connection [Google]

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2008-06-14 19:00:00 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
And I was starting to feel unfulfilled by the stuff coming out of Google's labs. Its senior policy director, Richard Whitt, says that they're cooking up software that'll tell you if your ISP is screwing with or slowing down your connection because you're hogging too much bandwidth, and what exactly they're doing to it. (There's already some...
 
Tags: google, isp, finea non-neutral world, world, hot hardware, net neutrality, whitt, senior policy director, richard whitt
 
 
 
 
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Test your ISP and see if youre actually getting the speed you paid for

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2007-12-11 21:50:03 by Kinster in GadgetLite Blog
Many of us often experience problems with our internet service, too slow, not working, cant access the sites we need at the time they are most needed, etc What do we usually do about this? Usually the average internet user ends up no knowing what is happening and restarting their system, or unplugging the internet cables and reconnecting them...
 
Tags: speed, test, broadband speed meter, isp, popular, isps customer services, sites, poor broadband quality, tech sites
 
 
 
 
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ISP goofs up gives wrong IP address to the cops costs techie 50 days in jail

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2008-03-26 10:12:42 by HASH0x8b460c0 in Newlaunches.com
With the makings of a typical Bollywood flick, it's ironic that this story revolves around a famous South Indian ruler. The plot involved - an innocent techie A culprit Cyber Crime Police and ISP Bharti Airtel. The story goes like this; a group on Orkut was created that was dedicated to defame a South Indian Ruler, the cyber crime cell swung...
 
Tags: isp, address, isp bharti airtel, wrong, bharti airtel, wrong address, bharti, company, telecom company
 
 
 
 
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UK ISP will not be bullied by music industry dirty tactics

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2008-04-04 19:20:28 by Nicholas Deleon in CrunchGear
Flickrd In order to force people to buy plastic discs with music encoded on them, the British Phonographic Industry (more or less the UKs RIAA ) has started sending mean and nasty letters to ISPs there. Only problem is, these mean and nasty letters have had the exact opposite effect the BPI had in mind Rather than turn around and say, Oh, our...
 
Tags: music, nasty letters, isp, british phonographic industry, business, business model, internet, internet police, fight recent attempts
 
 
 
 
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Will Your ISP F You In the A? Bandwidth Hogs Beware [Net Neutrality]

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2008-04-14 12:45:00 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
As the amount of bandwidth we devour has skyrocketed, so has ISPs' need to police our appetites, even as they offer more bandwidth to whet it. We talked to the biggest ISPs around to get their official positions on traffic management and content filtering to see what's in store for your pipes. Here's where you find out which ISPs may screw you,...
 
Tags: management style, management, network management technologies, manage network congestion, manage, technologies, network, network engineers, heavy peer-to-peer congestion
 
 
 
 
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Test to see if your ISP is throttling BitTorrent traffic

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2008-05-07 21:02:20 by John Biggs in CrunchGear
Your connection on Time Warner This test will tell you if your ISP is throttling your BitTorrent traffic. So many people are taking it right now that it might be down, but TorrentFreak reports that 10 ISPs in the US are shaping traffic non named yet, though. Keep trying and let us know if your ISP is keeping you from downloading The Slip legally
 
Tags: traffic, bittorrent traffic, isp, test, torrentfreak reports, time warner, isps, connection, slip