Re: Bandwidth Throttling

Maybe it was just bittorrent making, or only having available, poor
choices. It didn't occur to me that throttling might be done until
mentioned here.

Just out of curiosity, what equipment would be required? I thought all
it took was something along the lines of squid.

Leif Sawyer wrote:
> Well, as far as I know, there is no equipment in place at this particular
> time that could do that sort of throttling.
> I could be wrong, but I haven't seen anything go out the door.
>
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>> From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]
>> On Behalf Of Jim Gribbin
>> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 3:59 PM
>> To: Luke D
>> Cc: aklug@aklug.org
>> Subject: Re: Bandwidth Throttling
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>> 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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