RE: Bandwidth Throttling

I've got no problem taking it on the chin for bittorrent/p2p. Its unfair
to let a small number of people ruin it for a large number of people. At
the college I went to, it was estimated that P2P traffic before 'lockdown'
was around 90% of all traffic.

I'd rather wait a bit longer for my downloads (or use an http/ftp mirror)
than to suffer having all my traffic be slow. The uproar over slow
bittorrent is very small. The uproar over slow http or voip is huge.

Adam

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Leif Sawyer wrote:

> You might try a different client, one that allows encryption, as most
> mitigation strategies can't decode the stream to accurately mark the
> packet as the bittorrent protocol.
> Maybe try bittyrant. :-)
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>> From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]
>> On Behalf Of Luke D
>> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 12:14 PM
>> To: aklug@aklug.org
>> Subject: Bandwidth Throttling
>>
>> I am hoping that some one can help me on the AKLUG list.
>> I called and talk to ACS and they told me they throttling
>> Bittorrent bandwidth. I know that it is used a lot of illegal
>> file sharing such as music, movies, games etc. But I use it
>> to get my Linux distros. Also World of Warcraft uses
>> Bittorrent protocol to download updates. Does GCI do the same
>> thing? I am really considering dropping ACS if GCI does not do this.
>> The only problem I might have with GCI is there bandwidth caps.
>>
>> Also I am wondering how many people think that they should
>> not throttling bandwidth and block ports?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Luke
>>
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Received on Fri Jan 5 13:38:50 2007