arstechnica.com — BitTorrent clients such as Azureus added a feature that encrypted torrent traffic to try and get around ISP roadblocks. Now, a company called Allot Communications is claiming that their new hardware product, the NetEnforcer, is the first device that will seek out and throttle encrypted BitTorrent traffic.
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chmodSep 1, 2006
You do know what steganography is right? You would be increasing the size of downloads to the point where bit torrent would be completely pointless. Besides, steganography is not perfect. If they are willing to implement a system to break encrypted packets (mind you I have no idea what type of encryption bit torrent uses) they will probably just implement a form of steganalysis.
ayeroxorSep 1, 2006
hardcannons, you ignorant bitch: Every person or company on the internet pays for their connection/bandwidth. There is NO SUCH THING as bandwidth without paying for it. When will you and your "tubes" senator get this through your heads?
nazadusSep 1, 2006
@chmod:I know many people who only went to broadband for downloading stuff.While dialup sucked, they didn't really care.Time Warner's commercials always talks about downloading music and stuff. So they *advertise* you using it as such.As for the argument I read in another post pertaining to "they don't guarantee bandwidth", well that's yes and no. They can't give up 1kB up and down and say "be happy and pay us money". It has to be within reason otherwise you can sue. Especially if you can prove that they are throttling it. That's called "false advertising" because of their "hidden" intention to throttle traffic.TW used to say you aren't allowed to run mail servers but I ran one for years on their connection. I was ready for when they were going to ask me to cut it off (they never did) because I would reply with "oh, you aren't selling bandwidth? I wasn't told these conditions up front and thusly am not held by your contract". They could drop you, sure, but you wouldn't have to pay that fine if you left before your contract was over.I suspect that after they start doing some serious throttling (and big companies like SBC do this) then we will see something happen. if I have a download rate of 5mb and they throttle it down to 4mb then that's one thing but if they throttle down to 100kb that's a whole different ball park. I got no problem with them shaping a little bit to allow other packets (like http, smtp, and dns) out as a higher priority but not so high that it kills BT.I'm on SBC and have no problem. I've probably (in the past 3 months) uploaded about 25gb and downed about 15gb. In my life I've done over a couple hundred gig. but I don't leave it running 24x7. Night time and when I'm at work (sometimes). During "peak" hours I tend not to because I like my bandwidth for gaming ;-)
hewbieSep 1, 2006
yeah use something like SSL used in everyday online shops/banks sites if they messed about with ssl traffic they will get alot of angry cusomters/ and ppl will leavefor another isp :D
wyzishSep 1, 2006
chown -R us /bandwidth
pippSep 1, 2006
The Netenforcer is a pretty sweet device. I've used one when I worked for an ISP. It's been out there for many years. It's great for controlling customer to the speeds they pay for, and help you prioritze your traffic as you need.Sounds like they just added an item for BitTorrent. They already have tons of options like web, mail, ftp, aim, p2p sharing, etc, etc.
vibri2001Sep 1, 2006
I agree. Don't tell me I have a 6 mbps download connection that is always on if you don't want me to use it.
tommieSep 1, 2006
The US is already way behind in broadband, and now this?If your ISP can't handle BitTorrent, maybe you should switch ISPs, or encourage them to upgrade so that they can handle it.