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Old 16-12-2012, 17:44   #7
bradyios
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Re: Problem downloading torrents?

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Originally Posted by Qtx View Post
Virgin throttle torrents and newsgroups big time in the evenings and weekends. Their throttling works based on a percentage of current load, so could explain why its low but not a constant speed low.

I thought using ssl/encryption on the client got around that though.
That could be why, but like you say, I don't see why it drops from just under 3MB to 10KB max... I also read encrypting torrents stopped throttling, I might try a VPN service.
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