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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
51,689 views, 22 comments

Latest by SBM_from_LA: I was unable to run this test until just now, after midnight on Sunday. According to the result, My Time Warner ISP does NOT throttle my bandwidth. So I guess that's very interesting. I remember reading or 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."
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7:35 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By matt buchanan
4,840 views, 25 comments

Latest by n/a: @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 »

knob throttling

DJ4: Two-Source Mixer Has Two Big Knobs, Doesn't Go Up to 11

For some reason, that headline sounds just wrong, but whatever. Here's the Bird Electoron DJ-4, "the passive type micro mixer of power source unnecessary." In other words: Yes, it's from Japan and yes, it's a very simple passive mixer with two mini-stereo inputs and one output. The seller for me is the two big analog knobs: VOLUME and VOLUME. For just $70 you will be able to connect your two MP3 players and touch your own two big knobs until your audience's ears bleed. Or they throw you into the river inside a sack full of rocks after you play the same Black Eyed Peas track for the 28th time. – Jesus Diaz More »

7:36 AM on Fri May 25 2007
By Addy Dugdale
1,435 views, 12 comments

Latest by deusdiabolus: I expect to see this popping up at a lot of IDM and experimental music shows. more »