Re: Bandwidth Throttling

It didn't occur to me at the time that the ISPs might be throttling, but
I suspect GCI is doing that with bittorrent also. I downloaded the
latest OpenOffice the other day and it didn't seem like it was going
that much faster than dial-up. They were probably throttling too.

I also find port blocking a little annoying. They apparently do it do
keep people from running servers without paying for the higher level
service. It's my understanding that if you pay for the commercial
version of the DSL, those ports aren't blocked. At least fewer of them are.

Jim

Luke D wrote:
> 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 16:01:05 2007