OT: BitTorrent, encryption, traffic shaping and the Internet

Jamon Camisso jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Thu Mar 2 04:36:56 UTC 2006


Aaron Vegh wrote:
> It's worth noting that the traffic shaping is designed to limit UPLOAD
> rates, not download. Cable internet is pro at handling downloading,
> but crapola at uploads. As a result, I notice my download rates are
> fine, but uploads are a trickle...less than a 1K/sec, very often.
> According to the Rogers tech I spoke with, it should be higher than
> that, but they're still working on the technology... in short, they're
> still figuring it out.
> 
> I've been seeing a lot abotu this today (it was on Digg, for goodness'
> sake!), so I'm going to try out the encryption with Azureus and see if
> it helps.
> 
> Cheers,
> Aaron.

Just please don't use encryption and tor, or tor at all with bit-torrent 
for that matter. Not sure abot I2P, but I know that tor frowns upon bit 
torrent traffic.
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