gizmodo.com — Azureus actually operates a legit video delivery business using torrent, so they've been among the most vocal opponents to 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 rele
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lukeevMar 27, 2008
Sounds like similar issues I've had Tiscali. They are subtle bastards.
groverblueMar 27, 2008
So, is it dropping down to the driver/interface level?
iamthewurstMar 27, 2008
I just switched to Mac from windows around Christmas. I loaded transmission and haven't look back. It's clean and tight! No bloat.
johnmearnsMar 27, 2008
Read your terms of service before you start getting puffy about whats "borderline illegal." You are not being offered guaranteed bandwidth for your home broadband service but a best effort attempt at speeds that may peak at XX rate. If your isp doesn't come near that rate often enough to please you its time to find a new one.
johnmearnsMar 27, 2008
You pay for some bandwidth but not dedicated bandwidth. You can pay for that sort of bandwidth if you like but the cost is closer to what your ISP pays than the cost of sharing that bandwidth with other customers. When you get home broadband you're essentially agreeing to share a chunk of bandwith with several other people to offset the cost of that bandwidth. You won't all be using it at once and to capacity so you get it cheaper than it costs from a tier 1 ISP. The ISP you're buying from takes a little cut for themselves for bringing the service to your house and brokering the sharing arrangement. If you're hogging more resources and depriving the others of their cut, it seems fair that the ISP should ask you to find service elsewhere that can provide you with a constant use type level or service or restrict your usage. Similarly they might not want to deal with the hassles that come with your web server being rooted when you don't update whatever applications you have running on it.I wish bandwidth were free and we could all have as much as we want. That isn't the reality of the situation though. If you want to use your pipe to capacity 100% of the time you're going to pay more than the average home broadband customer.
hierophantusMar 27, 2008
funtastico: I can't tell if you're being serious or sarcastic. Either way, I like it.MWeather: There is some of that, but the lawyer is the company's agent. If the company doesn't want it in the contract, it doesn't go in. Much of lawyers' reputation for complicating transactions is deserved, even if some of it arises from misunderstanding of how the law works in practice. But people much too easily forget that anything lawyers do they do on someone's behalf, because that person wants it done. That's really the only point I was making.
cyantistMar 28, 2008
Telus is already slow, so throttling is pointless...