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coderGeek29 · 16-05-2008, 19:41

Has anyone experienced any application (ie P2P) throttling? Not just limiting download speeds during certain hours, but actually trying to slow down BitTorrents?

The reason I ask is that for a month or so now, I've been getting some really slow (~2kb/s) speeds on BitTorrent. At first, I thought it was a problem with my connection so I ran some speed tests and sure enough I was only getting ~100kb/s. So, I phoned Virgin who told me there was a known issue in my area and they would be fixing it on May 16. To my utter amazement, May 16th rolls around, and it's been fixed - I'm getting ~15Mb/s now!! Alas, though, BitTorrent is still as slow as ever

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Then, I get the idea to see if they are actively monitoring the connection and restricting certain applications, so I change the port in Transmission and enable encryption. Then BOOM, things speed up straight away and I'm now getting ~60kb/s.

16-05-2008, 19:41	#100
coderGeek29 Inactive Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 5	Re: New Virgin traffic managent - so that's why it's slow! Has anyone experienced any application (ie P2P) throttling? Not just limiting download speeds during certain hours, but actually trying to slow down BitTorrents? The reason I ask is that for a month or so now, I've been getting some really slow (~2kb/s) speeds on BitTorrent. At first, I thought it was a problem with my connection so I ran some speed tests and sure enough I was only getting ~100kb/s. So, I phoned Virgin who told me there was a known issue in my area and they would be fixing it on May 16. To my utter amazement, May 16th rolls around, and it's been fixed - I'm getting ~15Mb/s now!! Alas, though, BitTorrent is still as slow as ever . Then, I get the idea to see if they are actively monitoring the connection and restricting certain applications, so I change the port in Transmission and enable encryption. Then BOOM, things speed up straight away and I'm now getting ~60kb/s.