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bittorrent

How to Check if Your ISP is Throttling Your BitTorrent Traffic

Our ISP is currently Comcast, which is probably definitely throttling torrent traffic in this area, but how can we know for sure? Here's how. There's now a website that runs a little test, determining whether your ISP is throttling all traffic, all traffic on well-known BT ports, only BT traffic on well-known BT ports, or nothing at all. The full test takes seven minutes, but it's seven minutes well spent to find out whether you need another ISP. Or if you need to cut down on your PureTNA downloads. [Max Planck Institute via TorrentFreak via LifeHacker]

3:00 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Jason Chen
22,431 views, 21 comments

Latest by egyptiansushi: @tinascry: I've never noticed Comcast download speed issues, either... more »

at&t

Azureus/Vuze Says AT&T Is Pulling a Comcast, Resetting Torrents

A month after releasing its plugin that detects if your ISP is performing reset voodoo on your torrents, Azureus/Vuze is claiming AT&T hexes them with the same reset TCP packet curse as Comcast, despite AT&T's explicit statements otherwise. AT&T denies the accusation and points out a flaw in the plugin's method, that it can't tell the difference between naturally occurring TCP resets and artificial ones generated by an ISP. Azureus, while admitting the issue, still says AT&T is full it. More »

5:06 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By matt buchanan
4,553 views, 16 comments

Latest by tkatz: @madlogik: I'm also with Videotron, but sometimes I feel like they might be throttling my torrents, as my torrents are going at 100 kB/s when it used to fly at around 900 kB/s. I guess it all depends on the seed quality. more »

gadgets

QNAP TS-109 Pro II and TS-209 Pro II NAS Drives Bring Big Time BitTorrent Speed

QNAP has upgraded their line of NAS drives to include the one-bay TS-109 Pro II and two-bay TS-209 Pro II models. Both of these beefed up systems will include a Marvell 500MHz CPU and 256MB DDRII large memory, a faster BitTorrent download engine, built-in Joomla! CMS 1.5.1 and upgraded TwonkyMedia version 4.4.4. QNAP also claims that the P2P download speed is now the same as a PC-based BT download. More »

8:30 PM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Sean Fallon
4,458 views, 10 comments

comcast

Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

When I was talking to Comcast for my round up of ISP network management practices (pre-BT deal), we talked a lot about how they manage p2p traffic, and they were very clear that the temporary slowdowns were "surgical," (their word) and only employed during heavy congestion. So I'd been using that caveat anytime I brought it up, out of fairness. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told a Senate committee this week that what Comcast told me wasn't true: "It does not appear that this technique was used only to occasionally delay traffic at particular nodes suffering from network congestion at that time." More »

8:36 PM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By matt buchanan
4,142 views, 17 comments

gaming

GTA IV Leaked Online, Piracy Wins Again

GTA IV, supposedly the biggest thing in the history of modern electronic entertainment, has been leaked on the internet. If you're one of the lucky ones with a modded 360 and a copy of the game, disconnect from Live before you play it. Rockstar is watching out for people who go online with these before they're supposed to. [Kotaku]

4:30 PM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Jason Chen
14,791 views, 41 comments

speculation

FCC to Force ISPs to Reveal P2P Blockage and Real World Bandwidth Speeds

Last night, the FCC held its Comcast-less do-over hearing on net neutrality. While the FCC doesn't appear to be super gung-ho on government-enforced net neutrality, the smoke signals indicate that they're leaning toward forcing ISPs to be completely transparent about their network practices, telling you whether they block BitTorrent and how fast your connection is in real-world conditions, not fantasy-land speeds that only spike when the planets align. More »

10:05 AM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By matt buchanan
6,296 views, 27 comments

net neutrality

Will Your ISP F You In the A? Bandwidth Hogs Beware

As the amount of bandwidth we devour has skyrocketed, so has ISPs' need to police our appetites, even as they offer more bandwidth to whet it. We talked to the biggest ISPs around to get their official positions on traffic management and content filtering to see what's in store for your pipes. Here's where you find out which ISPs may screw you, and which ones swear to Giz they won't. Update: We've got new responses from AT&T and Speakeasy. More »

Feature

12:45 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By matt buchanan
24,806 views, 70 comments

Latest by dry-roasted-peanuts: Stuff like this is why digital distribution becoming the primary media delivery means is still a long time away. more »

net neutrality

Europe Says Net Banning Is a Violation of "Civil Liberties and Human Rights"

The European Parliament voted on anti-piracy bill that would boot persistent "file-sharers" off of the net, at the last minute shooting down that particular measure. More importantly, it added an amendment that said the European Union and its member countries should "avoid adopting measures conflicting with civil liberties and human rights and with the principles of proportionality, effectiveness and dissuasiveness, such as the interruption of internet access." The vote royally pissed off the EU's RIAA-equivalent, the IFPI. Even still, the vote itself may not result in any kind of safe haven for, uh, P2P "enthusiasts": More »

11:20 AM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Wilson Rothman
2,152 views, 29 comments

Latest by krisve: The point is that this makes it harder for IFPI to press the internet providers to actively implement systems to detect and block users filesharing. This is good because as someone said, you are innocent until proven otherwise, and this more »

comcast

Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks

Okay, so Comcast and BitTorrent are finally making nice after being all Crips and Bloods, even rousing the FCC out of its slumber at one point, which Comcast fought with every trick in the book. It sounds awesome on paper: Your torrents are safe! More bandwidth! Torrents will work even better! Comcast is all for net neutrality! Not quite. You might actually even be worse off. More »

Feature

7:45 PM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By matt buchanan
14,427 views, 16 comments

Latest by o0oceanwaters: is this web cite for people that are stuck in some best of their year era...hehehehe...troops move forward more »

whaaaa

Comcast Pulls an About Face, Teams Up with BitTorrent for Net Neutrality

Comcast has taken a lot of crap from everyone from the FCC to consumers, and they've been listening. In fact, they've decided to stop all the fussin' and the fuedin' and actually team up with BitTorrent for the sake of net neutrality. But of course, dear readers, there's a catch. There's always a catch. More »

9:54 AM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Adam Frucci
19,075 views, 90 comments

Latest by JennifARGH: Now everyone can enjoy the quality of Australia's broadband! more »

bittorrent

BitTorrent Plugin Detects ISPs Raping Your Torrents

Vuze/Azureus actually operates a legit video delivery business using torrent, so they've been among the most vocal opponents of ISPs throttling torrents. To help build their case and create a detailed log of every ISP that scrambles torrents, along with their particular poison—short-circuiting uploads or general bandwidth caps, for instance—they've released a plug-in for their BitTorrent client that detects ISP torrent sabotage. On your end, it keeps track of interrupted connections and lets you know if your ISP is hosing you, and you can share the results with Azureus, if you'd like. They've already got a wiki going of the worst torrent ISPs, with Cablevision, RCN and Adelphia pulling the same tactics as Comcast. [Torrentfreak via DSL Reports]

1:00 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By matt buchanan
27,281 views, 34 comments

Latest by TNTBW: P.S. When Comcast dies, I'll piss on their grave:) more »

home entertainment

Myka Brings BitTorrent to Your TV

The Myka is what many Torrent fans have been waiting for—a device that makes it easy to download torrents and play them on your living room TV. You can connect to the internet via LAN or WiFi, it has HDMI, Composite, S-Video and SPDIF ports (nice), your choice of 80, 160 or 500 gigabytes (and USB expansion) and the Linux OS with pre-installed BitTorrent software. You can even transfer videos directly from your computer. Prices are going to fall between $299 and $459, which is more than the Apple TV, but something tells me that there is some built-in value there. Additional pic after the break. More »

3:30 PM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By Sean Fallon
8,775 views, 36 comments

Latest by John Laur: Fine: Ripping off apple & sonos for your gear design. Not Fine: Uglying it up by plastering shitty logos all over it. You buy it because it has BitTorrent, right; do you need to be reminded every single time you look at more »

net neutrality

Net Neutrality Shouldn't Extend to Illegal Acts, Says FCC Comissioner

One of the FCC's five commissioners, Jonathan Adelstein, said during a recent symposium on FCC Internet Video Policy that the FCC's rules shouldn't permit "illegal acts." Sure, illegal downloading is a serious problem, especially if you're a copyright-holding movie studio. But does that mean the FCC is actually against net neutrality, in general? More »

9:20 AM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Kit Eaton
4,992 views, 17 comments

fcc hearings

FCC Holding Comcast Do-Over Hearings at Stanford on April 17

The FCC has confirmed that they're going to hold a second hearing about Comcast's BitTorrent throttling/blocking at Stanford, seeing as the first hearing was filled with Comcast's paid audience members. The hearing is going to be on April 17, but does Comcast actually care. Apparently not, because the man who spoke on behalf of Comcast at the Harvard hearing last month says the FCC doesn't have any legal power to do anything about the ISP anyway, even if they decide that their BitTorrent blocking is a no no. Check Ars for more on this. (On a related note, my Comcast cable internet is down right now and I'm writing this on EVDO.) [ZDNet]

2:43 PM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Jason Chen
1,767 views, 14 comments

Latest by newuser1234: wow - one way to guarantee that they'll be regulated is by shunning the FCC. more »

fcc

FCC and NY Attorney General 'Bout to Stomp on Comcast for BitTorrent Throttling

As promised at CES, the giant boot of the FCC is hovering over Comcast, ready to make it the FCC's bitch for throttling P2P applications. At a hearing populated by drowsy Comcast shills, FCC Diddy Kevin Martin implied that they're about to fire up the fine canon or block Comcast from throttling P2P traffic, while Dem. commissioner Michael Copps said he wanted super clear rules:
"The time has come for a specific enforceable principle of nondiscrimination. This principle should allow for reasonable network management, but make crystal clear that broadband network operators cannot shackle the promise of the Internet."
More »

7:35 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By matt buchanan
4,773 views, 25 comments

Latest by DigitalNoise: @Vagabum et. al: I've had Comcast for 3 years, and have been a very heavy users - NewsGroups, BitTorrent, Gaming, what have you - for that entire time. Never, not once, have I ever had my bandwidth throttled or shaped more »

bittorrent

The Pirate Bay Makes Millions Not Spent On Hair Cuts

Here's an interesting clip that features a snippet with one of The Pirate Bay's co-founders, Gottfrid Svartholm. Along with a shot of the corporate HQ (which resides in the same building as Sweden's copyright office), the video includes a—quite literal—pile of evidence revealing just how much cash the BitTorrent tracker is making by advertising to their 10 million users. We always knew those guys were cashing in. [via digg]

10:44 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Mark Wilson
9,667 views, 81 comments

gadgts

Xbox Media Center Comes to Macs

Xbox Media Center, which was originally a media center for some console whose name we can't remember, has finally come to Macs. Why would you need this when FrontRow or other media centers work just fine natively? As the XBMC team (and loyal fans) can attest to, the codec support, usability and functionality is higher than even the Xbox 360 when it comes to playing back downloaded content. 9 to 5 Mac has an interview with one of the developers on the 0.1 version. [9to5mac]

1:05 PM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By Jason Chen
7,046 views, 20 comments

Latest by x23: @WeaponX101: be sure to pass that along to all the haters in basically every Apple post on Gizmodo. oh wait... it doesn't count when it is the other way around. right. more »

microsoft

Vista SP1 Leaked to BitTorrent

Time to fire up uTorrent, Vista pirates users, the RTM version of SP1 has been leaked to the Pirate Bay and other major torrent trackers. The torrent appears to be a complete Vista install, not just an upgrade, so be careful and back up your files before you proceed—or else, wait until mid-March when it's a free system upgrade. Let us know how it goes. [PC World]

11:31 AM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By Benny Goldman
8,466 views, 43 comments