Throttling BitTorrent

Posted by Kyle Pott at 1:00 PM on August 23, 2007

Comcast has started throttling BitTorrent traffic. Customers will start to see (if they haven't already) dramatically slower download speeds and they will be completely unable to seed their downloads.

AU -There are always mutterings on community forums like Whirlpool about whether ISPs are "shaping" P2P traffic or not. Often it's smaller players who do it - in June, Telstra, Optus and iinet all denied doing it.

 

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