natatkinson Posted December 30, 2006 CID Share Posted December 30, 2006 Well, after insight upgraded there service in November, then they decided to start blocking torrents. I have tried everything, and it is most definitly throtting, sad to say. THIS SUCKS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimPawlak Posted December 31, 2006 CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 i havent noticed anything.. but ok lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted December 31, 2006 CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 Welcome to the forum natatkinson Could you tell us how they are doing this? Or I guess I meant how do you know this? (you know) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 31, 2006 CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 natatkinson welcome to the forum i doubt they are packet shaping but to test use utorrent and turn on encryption, if it goes faster on a few different torrents then they are, if it is the same speed then they are not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natatkinson Posted December 31, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 I have done that, I am using encryption and it has indeed increased speed, but I am still not back up to normal levels. many people in my area have also felt the effect, so it is not just me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 31, 2006 CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 I have done that, I am using encryption and it has indeed increased speed, but I am still not back up to normal levels. many people in my area have also felt the effect, so it is not just me. how many seeds are on the torrent and how many are you connecting to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natatkinson Posted December 31, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 there are 69 seeds and 577 peers. with encryption turned on I am connected to 35 seeds, and 100 peers, on average. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimPawlak Posted December 31, 2006 CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 yup, i think its throttle.. i tried every port.. no luck... i'm getting a womping 25 kb/s right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted December 31, 2006 CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 Bummer. if they throttled hughes. I would have to shoot my dish and think dial-up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted December 31, 2006 CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 Bummer. if they throttled hughes. I would have to shoot my dish and think dial-up. You could always driver over and pick it up, it would be just as fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimPawlak Posted December 31, 2006 CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 You could always driver over and pick it up, it would be just as fast. :2funny: :2funny: :2funny: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted December 31, 2006 CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 Always with the poor sat guy. Hey your posts coknuck. 2006 for the year. And you finally made RTB's list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted December 31, 2006 CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 I'm scared. Please don't beat 'ole Toby. :2funny: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted December 31, 2006 CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 Not me. toby is too tricky. Yeah the kids have 3 of those movies. Toby is a sneaky little bast*rd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted December 31, 2006 CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 :2funny: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toast6977 Posted December 31, 2006 CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 Ahh.. I posted about this a couple of days ago.. I started noticing in about a week before Christmas or so... Throttling has been my suspicion since, however, on *some* torrents, I'm still getting descent speeds.. but on the whole... no. Hopefully this thread doesn't die... Encryption doesn't help, I'm wondering what would be a good solution. I'm assuming this is all due in part to the major headaches Insight were having after the upgrade, since it basically killed tons of peoples connections for weeks. Mine was severely injured for 2-3 weeks directly after the upgrade. I'm sure they noticed ton's of bandwidth going directly to bittorrenting, and decided the way to save their network was to kill bittorrent. Is that ethical? Lots of people have internet solely for bittorrenting. I myself use it to Legally obtain Grateful Dead and Phish concerts. Free to trade, and free to share. Nothing wrong with that. I know there is some fine print in there TOS that states basically they can change/add/remove any features or services at anytime, and the only way to deal with it is to terminate the service... But one tends to figure, that when you pay for a service, such as the internet, you should be able to to with it what you will, in confines of the law and such. What a nightmare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted December 31, 2006 CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 Try satelite for bad things from an ISP. We have a maximum usage before a slowdown. Called FAP. You ain't seen nothing yet to worry about, till you put up with that. Then dial-up speed for a while. ( a few hours I think) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimPawlak Posted December 31, 2006 CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 hah, yeah.. man, i'm hitting 20 kb/s right now on this one torrent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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