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Originally Posted by Toto
OK, then does cable forum know of the reasons why ntl have done this, has it been communicated to you guys?
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Erm, I think that is the issue...it doesn't appear that anything to do with traffic shaping has been communicated. I would guess that the reason they have implemented traffic shaping is because p2p and newsgroup traffic have been affected service quality for other customers, so rather than increase capacity they have decided to limit these services.
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Originally Posted by Ignition
EDIT2: While encryption might prevent the provider from seeing exactly what you're doing there aren't many things that open 50 connections instantly and none of them are legit.  |
That may be the case, but if you limit connections then you will be affecting everything the customer is trying to do and not just the bandwidth intensive p2p applications. I'm not aware of any ISP that has done it like this for those very reasons.
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Originally Posted by bilal
Good utorrent got protocol encryption recently, will make this basically useless for bittorrent (i think)
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No, peers which support encryption will not be shaped because the packets will be encrypted. Peers which are not encrypted will be shaped as normal.