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Haven't we had like a dozen threads about how net neutrality is fucked? It's like this 'news' keeps rearing it's ugly head then we forget about it once it's no longer interesting and nothing ever happens anyway.
I won't hold my breath because it's somewhat becoming the new 'zomg it's Armageddon this year i swearz' of the internet.
It's actually mostly true here too.
Most people I know with Comcast can torrent things no problem. It's kind of ironic that Verizon is the one doing most of the throttling.
Fake E: ninja'd by Apollo.
For a while, comcast was throttling torrents in our area, however, that stopped when everything going in and out became encrypted and I buckled down my security, but that was a whileeee ago. I've since switched to verizon and encountered nothing of the sort.
I don't think you can throttle just torrents, they'd throttle your total bandwidth hence limiting you ability to torrent.
I have Comcast and haven't once experienced any performance or bandwidth caps.
you have no understanding on the issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by paladin
long story short, yes they can.
That kind of reply isn't very moderator-like
It'd be resource intensive for an ISP to filter specific ports or even specific communications to specific IP endpoints. Even then, someone can just change the port they're using or change the location of where they're gathering the resource from, the ISP wouldn't get very far except in annoying the paying customer.
Luckily the ISPs don't control the standards of computers or software so they have no say or investment in any one communication "tube". So they can't really commercialize on say, your torrent traffic. They're pretty much stuck with commercializing on your overall bandwidth right now.
Bro's doing network and electrical engineering, yes they can and yes they've done it to him already.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
he went through all the info he was able to get on his connection and the info, did the maths on it, crunched some numbers and rang them about it. Their reply was something onlong the lines of "yeah... hmm your not really supposed to know about that..."
that was a couple years ago, but yes they can do it.
i cant give you specifics on how but my bro proved they where doing it to him.
they're just very, very quite on it and it's not an insane difference so it mostly gets put down to torrents being slow.
i'd very much like to know how he calculated this fact.
I'm taking a shot in the dark here, but I would guess the same way this worksQuote:
Originally Posted by neuro
Although I'm curious myself how exactly he supposed "did the maths".
I'd have to talk to him about it.
i'm just remembering a convo from a couple years ago i had with him about it