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Originally Posted by Stuart C
Actually, if James Henry is correct, NTL's traffic shaping can detect encrypted bit torrent traffic. I don't know how it works (and even if I did, I wouldn't discuss it in public). Remember, they don't need to be able to read the traffic, they just need to recognise the encryption. There would HAVE to be a certain pattern in the encrypted data for the torrent client to be able to detet it. NTL just need to look for that pattern.
Of course, that's assuming they don't just traffic shape any traffic they can't access.
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Well, I had my suspicions which is why I wanted some people to trial it.
Bill's having problems with speed tests... Assuming its traffic shaping and not just congestion, then they are filtering regular HTTP traffic as well. Not sure if that counts as 'non-time critical' applications, which according to the news report, shouldn't.