i am no expert in traffic shaping, essentially it involves your ISP identifying and blocking traffic from popular p2p applications (Bit Torrent/Emule/etc). While there are not that many isps that do this right now, expect more and more ISPs to implement traffic shaping (as new CISCO hardware has P2P throttling built in standard) It has been widely reported that most ISPs in Italy have implemented traffic shaping, and a major service provider in Canada uses a particularly brutal brand. Often there is no alternative service providers to turn to because of monopolisation of the market.
How will this work when p2p software can encrypt information now for example if you use the edonkey network (kad overnet emule etc).
check out
http://forum.emule-project.net/index...howtopic=90121
http://forum.emule-project.net/index...howtopic=99208
here is some info on the protolcol from the guy who wrote it
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There ts a preferences branche "Neo -> neo tweaks -> ISP traversal"
This setting have 3 states:
off - dissabled
on - enabled with extra ports
gray/squere - enabled without extra ports.
Normal users should have the gray/squere.
Throtled users should have fully enabled.
There are 2 sub settings:
1. Encrypted ports there you can enter ports and whole port ranges to be used
2. need isp traversal.
not needed
transfer - for transfer connections (not recomended on low id)
implicit for all connections expected the initial one for compatybility
explicit for all connections (not available yet for compatybility reasons)
I would recomend the implicit.
The download will be better when the amount of clients using this feature will raise.
The upload is immidetly improved becouse the neo is dropping sockets that are blocking automaticly, (neo->bandwith control -> general bandwidth settings -> upload management -> trickle blocking sockets -> drop blocking sockets) howeever the socket fitnes is estimated relativly to all sockets so when all are blocking thay want be droped.
David
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