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Help Azureus to Fight BitTorrent Throttling ISPs
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ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years now, but only recently has this turned into a political issue. The BitTorrent client Azureus has now developed a plugin through which you can help distinguishing the good from the bad ISPs, data they will use to strengthen their argument in the ongoing Comcast debate. Last November Azureus petitioned the FCC, resulting in a FCC hearing which was held a month ago. One of the issues raised there, was that there is little data available on the scope of BitTorrent throttling, a gap Azureus now plans to fill.
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Test: Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic?
http://darkfile.net/2008/06/test-does-your-isp-slow-down-bit...Hundreds of larger and smaller ISPs all over the world try to limit BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Unfortunately, most companies are not very open about their network management solutions, with Comcast as the prime example. Thanks to the Glasnost project, you can now test wheter your ISP is one of the bad guys. A while back TorrentFreak posted about the plugin Azureus had developed, which allowed people to check whether their ISP is interfering with their traffic. The results showed that indeed quite a few ISPs were, but the plugin didn’t provide the user with direct feedback. The new tool developed by the “max planck institute for software systems” can be used without having to run your BitTorrent client, and compares BitTorrent traffic to regular traffic. On top of that, it will give you more information than the Azureus plugin does. “The goal of our Glasnost project is to make access networks, such as residential cable, DSL, and cellular broadband networks, more transparent to their customers,” the Glasnost team writes. We couldn’t agree more of course, as we have said many times before. The way it works is pretty straightforward. The Java applet developed by the Glasnost project uploads and downloads data via BitTorrent for a few seconds, and compares that to your regular download speed. It detects if your ISP is limiting all BitTorrent traffic, or just traffic on well known BitTorrent ports. All in all this tool should be able to tell you whether your ISP is messing with BitTorrent traffic or not. Please keep in mind that the degree of traffic shaping varies a lot between different ISPs. Some ISPs only limit BitTorrent traffic during certain times of the day or do not throttle until the customer has exceeded a certain data threshold, others only slow down traffic in specific regions. More advanced tools have to be developed to detect these methods. Thus far, over 5,300 users have performed the test, and the preliminary results show that at least 10 ISPs in the United States are slowing down BitTorrent. We asked the researcher for some more details (names) but we haven’t heard back from them. However, on their website, they promise to provide more detailed results later, once the code is peer-reviewed. I encourage you to do the test, Source : TorrentFreak
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Test: Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic?
http://peilo.com/2008/05/17/test-does-your-isp-slow-down-bit...A while back we posted about the plugin Azureus had developed, which allowed people to check whether their ISP is interfering with their traffic. The results showed that indeed quite a few ISPs were, but the plugin didn’t provide the user with direct feedback. The new tool developed by the “max planck institute for software systems” can be used without having to run your BitTorrent client, and compares BitTorrent traffic to regular traffic. On top of that, it will give you more information than the Azureus plugin does. “The goal of our Glasnost project is to make access networks, such as residential cable, DSL, and cellular broadband networks, more transparent to their customers,” the Glasnost team writes. We couldn’t agree more of course, as we have said many times before. The way it works is pretty straightforward. The Java applet developed by the Glasnost project uploads and downloads data via BitTorrent for a few seconds, and compares that to your regular download speed. It detects if your ISP is limiting all BitTorrent traffic, or just traffic on well known BitTorrent ports. All in all this tool should be able to tell you whether your ISP is messing with BitTorrent traffic or not. Please keep in mind that the degree of traffic shaping varies a lot between different ISPs. Some ISPs only limit BitTorrent traffic during certain times of the day or do not throttle until the customer has exceeded a certain data threshold, others only slow down traffic in specific regions. More advanced tools have to be developed to detect these methods. Thus far, over 5,300 users have performed the test, and the preliminary results show that at least 10 ISPs in the United States are slowing down BitTorrent. We asked the researcher for some more details (names) but we haven’t heard back from them. However, on their website, they promise to provide more detailed results later, once the code is peer-reviewed. We encourage you to do the test, if the test results show that your ISP is limiting BitTorrent traffic, please let us know. We will add a lits of offenders at the bottom of this article. The test servers seem to have limited capacity. If it shows up as “busy”, please bookmark this article and try again later. 1. Comcast, USA This is an article from: TorrentFreak Test: Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic?
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Test: Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic?
http://blog.idtorrent.org/news/test-does-your-isp-slow-down-...A while back we posted about the plugin Azureus had developed, which allowed people to check whether their ISP is interfering with their traffic. The results showed that indeed quite a few ISPs were, but the plugin didn’t provide the user with direct feedback. The new tool developed by the “max planck institute for software systems” can be used without having to run your BitTorrent client, and compares BitTorrent traffic to regular traffic. On top of that, it will give you more information than the Azureus plugin does. “The goal of our Glasnost project is to make access networks, such as residential cable, DSL, and cellular broadband networks, more transparent to their customers,” the Glasnost team writes. We couldn’t agree more of course, as we have said many times before. The way it works is pretty straightforward. The Java applet developed by the Glasnost project uploads and downloads data via BitTorrent for a few seconds, and compares that to your regular download speed. It detects if your ISP is limiting all BitTorrent traffic, or just traffic on well known BitTorrent ports. All in all this tool should be able to tell you whether your ISP is messing with BitTorrent traffic or not. Please keep in mind that the degree of traffic shaping varies a lot between different ISPs. Some ISPs only limit BitTorrent traffic during certain times of the day or do not throttle until the customer has exceeded a certain data threshold, others only slow down traffic in specific regions. More advanced tools have to be developed to detect these methods. Thus far, over 5,300 users have performed the test, and the preliminary results show that at least 10 ISPs in the United States are slowing down BitTorrent. We asked the researcher for some more details (names) but we haven’t heard back from them. However, on their website, they promise to provide more detailed results later, once the code is peer-reviewed. We encourage you to do the test, if the test results show that your ISP is limiting BitTorrent traffic, please let us know. We will add a lits of offenders at the bottom of this article. The test servers seem to have limited capacity. If it shows up as “busy”, please bookmark this article and try again later. 1. Comcast, USA This is an article from: TorrentFreak Test: Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic?
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Test: Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic?
http://www.zwartbaard.nl/weblog/2008/05/08/test-does-your-is...Hundreds of larger and smaller ISPs all over the world try to limit BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Unfortunately, most companies are not very open about their network management solutions, with Comcast as the prime example. Thanks to the Glasnost project, you can now test wheter your ISP is one of the bad guys. A while back we posted about the plugin Azureus had developed, which allowed people to check whether their ISP is interfering with their traffic. The results showed that indeed quite a few ISPs were, but the plugin didn’t provide the user with direct feedback. The new tool developed by the “max planck institute for software systems” can be used without having to run your BitTorrent client, and compares BitTorrent traffic to regular traffic. On top of that, it will give you more information than the Azureus plugin does. “The goal of our Glasnost project is to make access networks, such as residential cable, DSL, and cellular broadband networks, more transparent to their customers,” the Glasnost team writes. We couldn’t agree more of course, as we have said many times before. The way it works is pretty straightforward. The Java applet developed by the Glasnost project uploads and downloads data via BitTorrent for a few seconds, and compares that to your regular download speed. It detects if your ISP is limiting all BitTorrent traffic, or just traffic on well known BitTorrent ports. All in all this tool should be able to tell you whether your ISP is messing with BitTorrent traffic or not. Please keep in mind that the degree of traffic shaping varies a lot between different ISPs. Some ISPs only limit BitTorrent traffic during certain times of the day or do not throttle until the customer has exceeded a certain data threshold, others only slow down traffic in specific regions. More advanced tools have to be developed to detect these methods. Thus far, over 5,300 users have performed the test, and the preliminary results show that at least 10 ISPs in the United States are slowing down BitTorrent. We asked the researcher for some more details (names) but we haven’t heard back from them. However, on their website, they promise to provide more detailed results later, once the code is peer-reviewed. We encourage you to do the test, if the test results show that your ISP is limiting BitTorrent traffic, please let us know. We will add a lits of offenders at the bottom of this article. The test servers seem to have limited capacity. If it shows up as “busy”, please bookmark this article and try again later.
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Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic?
http://cyberlaw.org.uk/2008/05/07/does-your-isp-slow-down-bi...This is an article from: TorrentFreak Test: Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic?: “ A while back TorrentFreak posted about the plugin Azureus had developed, which allowed people to check whether their ISP is interfering with their traffic. The results showed that indeed quite a few ISPs were, but the plugin didn’t provide the user with direct feedback. The new tool developed by the ‘max planck institute for software systems’ can be used without having to run your BitTorrent client, and compares BitTorrent traffic to regular traffic. On top of that, it will give you more information than the Azureus plugin does. ‘The goal of our Glasnost project is to make access networks, such as residential cable, DSL, and cellular broadband networks, more transparent to their customers,’ the Glasnost team writes. We couldn’t agree more of course, as we have said many times before. The way it works is pretty straightforward. The Java applet developed by the Glasnost project uploads and downloads data via BitTorrent for a few seconds, and compares that to your regular download speed. It detects if your ISP is limiting all BitTorrent traffic, or just traffic on well known BitTorrent ports. All in all this tool should be able to tell you whether your ISP is messing with BitTorrent traffic or not. Please keep in mind that the degree of traffic shaping varies a lot between different ISPs. Some ISPs only limit BitTorrent traffic during certain times of the day or do not throttle until the customer has exceeded a certain data threshold, others only slow down traffic in specific regions. More advanced tools have to be developed to detect these methods. Thus far, over 5,300 users have performed the test, and the preliminary results show that at least 10 ISPs in the United States are slowing down BitTorrent. We asked the researcher for some more details (names) but we haven’t heard back from them. However, on their website, they promise to provide more detailed results later, once the code is peer-reviewed. We encourage you to do the test, if the test results show that your ISP is limiting BitTorrent traffic, please let us know. We will add a lits of offenders at the bottom of this article.
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BitTorrent Throttling ISPs Exposed by Azureus
http://blog.idtorrent.org/news/bittorrent-throttling-isps-ex...ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for quite a while, but only since the Comcast debacle has this been picked up by mainstream media. A few months ago Azureus petitioned the FCC, which led to a FCC hearing in February. One of the complaints from the commission was that there is little data available on the scope of BitTorrent throttling, a gap Azureus now tries to fill by collecting data on the prevalence of TCP-resets among ISPs worldwide. Last month Azureus published a plugin through which users can help distinguishing the good from the bad ISPs, and today we have a preview of some early findings. A massive 1,000,000 hours of data from over 8000 users has been collected over the past few weeks. The preliminary results again confirm that Comcast continues to use TCP-resets to manage BitTorrent traffic on their network, but they are not alone. The rest of the Vuze/Azureus report (pdf) includes the median reset rates for hundreds of other ISPs ISP Country Reset % Comcast USA 23.72% Cogeco Canada 19.13% Emirates Internet UAE 17.86% Cablevision USA 17.58% Brasil Telecom Santa Catarina, Brazil 17.43% TM Net Malaysia 16.80% BellSouth USA 15.88% Tedata Egypt 15.33% Tiscali UK 14.89% AOL USA 14.88% TCP resets seem to be more common for American ISPs, and Comcast leads the bunch. The Azureus team has sent a letter to Cablevision, Cogeco, BellSouth and AOL, where they request that the companies are open about their BitTorrent throttling practices. Thus far, the ISPs have not responded to the letters. At the bottom of the list we see the good ISPs, mostly from Europe. There are other ways to throttle BitTorrent traffic, besides using TCP-resets, a list of ISPs who are known to limit BitTorrent traffic is available on the Azureus Wiki. ISP Country Reset % Telecom Italia France France 2.53% Orange Nederland The Netherlands 2.57% WiLine USA 2.78% Telefonica Germany 3.60% Freenet Germany 4.21% It has to be noted that the data gathering techniques Vuze uses are far from optimal. The plugin detects all TCP resets on a connection and doesn’t make a distinction between BitTorrent and other traffic, and there is no control group. The Azureus/Vuze team will continue to collect data, and stated: “We believe that there is sufficient data to suggest that network management practices that ‘throttle’ Internet traffic are widespread. At a minimum, more investigation is required to determine whether these resets are happening in the ordinary course of business or whether they represent the kind of throttling practices which target specific applications and/or protocols, harming the consumer experience and stifling innovation.” The preliminary results presented here do indeed indicate that Comcast is not the only ISP that uses TCP resets to slow down BitTorrent traffic. People are encouraged to continue using the plugin so more robust data can be presented in the near future. This is an article from: TorrentFreak BitTorrent Throttling ISPs Exposed by Azureus
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Caughtcha!!
http://thirdpipe.com/2008/04/22/caughtcha/Caughtcha!! It appears that Comcast is not the only one play games with TCP resets on Torrents according to the blog Torrent Freak. Here be the list of expected offenders – ISP Country Reset % Comcast USA 23.72% Cogeco Canada 19.13% Emirates Internet UAE 17.86% Cablevision USA 17.58% Brasil Telecom Santa Catarina, Brazil 17.43% TM Net Malaysia 16.80% BellSouth USA 15.88% Tedata Egypt 15.33% Tiscali UK 14.89% AOL USA 14.88% If you are interested there is a plug in you can use to determine what is happening to your Torrent traffic. It is clear that Comcast is the leader but they are not alone as the table indicates. Filed under Legislation / Regulation, Net Neutrality, traffic shaping by Dr. Dog
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ISP throttling widespread: Azureus
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15694p2pnet news | Freedom:- Data collected by the BitTorrent client Azureus shows Comcast might only be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to BitTorrent throttling ISPs. Early findings show customers from quite a few other internet service providers are experiencing an unusually high amount of TCP-resets. ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for quite a while, but only since the Comcast debacle has the scandal been picked up by mainstream media. A few months ago, Azureus petitioned the FCC, which led to a FCC hearing in February. One of the complaints from the commission was: there is little data available on the scope of BitTorrent throttling, a gap Azureus now tries to fill by collecting data on the prevalence of TCP-resets among ISPs worldwide. Last month Azureus published a plugin through which users can help distinguishing the good from the bad ISPs, and today we have a preview of some early findings. A massive 1,000,000 hours of data from over 8000 users have been collected over the past few weeks. Preliminary results again confirm Comcast continues to use TCP-resets to manage BitTorrent traffic on their network, but they are not alone. The rest of the Vuze/Azureus report (pdf) includes the median reset rates for hundreds of other ISPs ISP Country Reset % Comcast USA 23.72% Cogeco Canada 19.13% Emirates Internet UAE 17.86% Cablevision USA 17.58% Brasil Telecom Santa Catarina, Brazil 17.43% TM Net Malaysia 16.80% BellSouth USA 15.88% Tedata Egypt 15.33% Tiscali UK 14.89% AOL USA 14.88% TCP resets seem to be more common for American ISPs, and Comcast leads the bunch. The Azureus team sent a letter to Cablevision, Cogeco, BellSouth and AOL, where they request that the companies are open about their BitTorrent throttling practices. Thus far, the ISPs have not responded to the letters. At the bottom of the list we see the good ISPs, mostly from Europe. There are other ways to throttle BitTorrent traffic, besides using TCP-resets, a list of ISPs who are known to limit BitTorrent traffic is available on the Azureus Wiki. ISP Country Reset % Telecom Italia France France 2.53% Orange Nederland The Netherlands 2.57% WiLine USA 2.78% Telefonica Germany 3.60% Freenet Germany 4.21% It has to be noted that data gathering techniques Vuze uses are far from optimal. The plugin detects all TCP resets on a connection and doesn’t make a distinction between BitTorrent and other traffic, and there is no control group. The Azureus/Vuze team will continue to collect data, saying: “We believe that there is sufficient data to suggest that network management practices that ‘throttle’ Internet traffic are widespread. At a minimum, more investigation is required to determine whether these resets are happening in the ordinary course of business or whether they represent the kind of throttling practices which target specific applications and/or protocols, harming the consumer experience and stifling innovation.” The preliminary results presented here do indeed indicate that Comcast is not the only ISP that uses TCP resets to slow down BitTorrent traffic. People are encouraged to continue using the plugin so more robust data can be presented in the near future. TorrentFreak - The Netherlands Slashdot it! Stumble It! Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. It’s really easy! Subscribe to p2pnet.net | | rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile - http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details. Download here. This has been nicked from: p2pnet.net - not the lamescream media ISP throttling widespread: Azureus
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