OT: BitTorrent, encryption, traffic shaping and the Internet

[Meng Cheah]

Zoltan wrote:
> Meng Cheah wrote:
>> Oops.
>> Allow me to rephrase "Does anyone know of encrypted bittorrents and 
>> traffic shaping?"
>> to "How do you detect if your ISP is using traffic shaping?'

> This should give you the basics:
> http://www.yyztech.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=73
> 
> The story has been going around for the last few months that Rogers is 
> employing some kind of traffic shaping for BT clients.
> As for detecting it, as far as I know, the  only way would be if you 
> notice your transfer speeds have dropped drastically since you 
> originally used it.
> 

Thanks. I was looking up how to detect traffic shaping and couldn't find 
anything than what you wrote above.

I'm downloading Gentoo using uTorrent on Windows to see if it is any 
faster. Getting about 175kB/s but I was getting that using BitTornado in 
Linux on the rare occassion (the last rare occassion was 2 days ago).
Will experiment some more. Thanks again.


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