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UPC does not throttle in PL. I have checked for RST packets with wireshark while testing several different torrents of different size, quality, place of origin and I was getting maxed out speeds. Just to let you guys know that UPC here actually stands by it's promise. I have used up about 1TB download and about 400GB upload last month on torrents alone and no issues. I also use youtube on highest settings, I try to watch 720p or 1080p documentaries on Youtube so you can Imagine that sucks up bandwidth also, not to mention FTP and HTTP up and down. So it truly is *unlimited* here, but I insinuate it is due to fierce competition from several other ISPs in the area ( sadly hasn't reached my outskirts of the city I reside in), but typically there are about 5-10 different ISPs fighting for customers, so UPC can't pull their monopolistic tactics here
I really feel bad for people who live in remote areas where UPC is the sole ISP. All they do is provide a DUMB PIPE to your home. I would hate to use the R word because it makes light of the word for half the population, but they really do stick it to the little guy. It really irks and vexes me that such greedy tactics are allowed. 0 -
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OneEightSeven wrote: »I don't believe they'll do anything. I remember reading something saying that they've never charge someone for going over the limit.
I'm with Vodafone use uTorrent 24/7. Never witnessed any throttling; although, I'm usually seeding 90% of the time and my upload speed maxes out at 70Kb/s, so it's barely a blip on the backhaul.
Thanks to the both of you for your replies,dyigirl4help wrote: »It's not so much as the ISP monitoring torrents rather them monitoring the QOS and throttling different protocols. It is estimated that p2p accounts for up to 75% of all internet traffic currently. So you can imagine that the sysop at a given ISP has to shape traffic so each customer gets a fair share. Usually a given person is faced with the *top 5* which means the top 5% of datahogs which are usually real heavy torrent users who do nothing but torrent day and night and congest a given neighborhood hub. They are faced with traffic shaping, so sometimes, when you see your torrent speed drop, it is not because you did something wrong, but someone connected in your area is bottlenecking everyone else, sure the sysop can throttle that one person, but it's easier to simply throttle that hub (nothing personal against you, but there are others to think about) When someone torrents something they shouldn't and they receive a warning from their ISP, it is not because the ISP is monitoring them, rather they are simply faced with a dilemma of having to forward a warning to you from a third party (usually a company that does nothing but connect to swarms and collect IP addresses and send out infringement letters to the ISP which is giving out the corresponding IP range) Luckily more and more judges are realizing that this has become a de facto modus operandi for certain law firms who do nothing but bully people into 2.5-5K euro settlements vs taking them to court over downloading some insertcrappysongnamehere.mp3. With open wifi and more and more of the older generation having unsecured routers at home, a lot of the time, the person being served a cease and desist letter is not the person doing the infringing at all, it could simply be a techy neighbor who hooked onto your unsecured network. I apologize for the essay I wrote but it really irks me, these laws we have on the books. If we had more legal media distribution services which are fairly prices, I insinuate that pirating would take a backseat.:o
From talking to a Vodafone rep they said that the 300GB FUP is now gone, so much for protecting the users from data eating viruses!
I'll soon be getting Vodafone Fibre or I might wait it out and get Sky Fibre, can't wait to have a 20Mb-ish upload!
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dyigirl4help wrote: »How deep are these blocks? Are they DNS blocks? All you need to do is edit your hosts file with a line that looks like “www.thepiratebay.se TPB IP GOES HERE”. There is also a plugin for Firefox that circumvents such blocks called MafiaaFire which is a basic redirector with a simple statement which reads *Un-censor the net and illegally taken down domains.*. Hope I helped.
My post was satire.
It's a doddle to get around even without browser plugins or editing the hosts file. Signing up for a VPN soon anyway because I plan to really take the piss with my connection soon. 0 -
Yeah that was going to be my next suggestion. After USA started up with their 6 strikes on the buttocks law, there was a sudden surge in new VPN customers. Could there be a correlation there? Hmmmm:rolleyes: Although you have to take account your bandwidth speed and usually you won't get 100% of that with a VPN, also always make sure to follow their instructions on setting up a VPN, mainly because a lot of people set it up and think they are safe, but their IP *leaks* anyway:p You will be lucky to get 75% of your max download and 50-60% of your upload with most VPNs as you are adding a middleman between your traffic, and most VPNs are already congested as it is. So shop around for a good one. Here is a good place to start looking. http://torrentfreak.com/vpn-services-that-take-your-anonymity-seriously-2013-edition/My post was satire.
It's a doddle to get around even without browser plugins or editing the hosts file. Signing up for a VPN soon anyway because I plan to really take the piss with my connection soon.0 -
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Question, how would this law pertain to an encrypted connection to a SSH tunnel to one IP address; the VPN? I am just wondering, would they record the packets going back and forth and decrypt them? Are they capable of that?aidan_walsh wrote: »
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In the US they have the *6 strikes on the butt* signed with major ISPs with elevated responses, but most lead nowhere, only 1 or two ISPs actually breaks a contract with a paying user, they usually down throttle for a period no longer than 24 hours. But in reality this will backfire over time as when I lived there, on any street (literally) there are so many unsecured open wifi networks, that when law abiding citizens start getting harassment calls / emails / disconnections, this won't get very far. Another short-term strategy if you ask me, especially for such places as NYC, Florida, California, Texas..basically all the heavily populated metropolitan areas where older generation people aren't as tech savvy as the younger generation. It saddens me really, but it is the truthSilly, you don't need one because of course you'll only be downloading Linux distros, abandonware and the material of self promoting artístes.....
Really, though, are people here still getting hit by strike notices and court summons that this needs to be a thing? I haven't heard much about that kind of carry on as of late. I was under the impression that it had died off, pretty much, and the new tac was simply to lobby ISPs to block pirate sites.
. A real constructive approach would be to offer better distribution services to match piracy, not try to patch it with a short term band-aid. 0 -
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dyigirl4help wrote: »There was also one called MiiVi.com, that one made a pretty big scuffle in the torrent world.
Source - http://torrentfreak.com/mediadefender-emails-leaked-070915/
I was wondering why I hadn't heard of that one but I see that it dates from 2007. I think people have been pretty wary of any kind of file sharing site with a 'kewrl' name from there on out.dyigirl4help wrote: »In the US they have the *6 strikes on the butt* signed with major ISPs with elevated responses, but most lead nowhere, only 1 or two ISPs actually breaks a contract with a paying user, they usually down throttle for a period no longer than 24 hours. But in reality this will backfire over time as when I lived there, on any street (literally) there are so many unsecured open wifi networks, that when law abiding citizens start getting harassment calls / emails / disconnections, this won't get very far. Another short-term strategy if you ask me, especially for such places as NYC, Florida, California, Texas..basically all the heavily populated metropolitan areas where older generation people aren't as tech savvy as the younger generation. It saddens me really, but it is the truth. A real constructive approach would be to offer better distribution services to match piracy, not try to patch it with a short term band-aid.
I think getting companies of the size we're talking about to change their ways is a bit like getting a supertanker to do a 180 turn. There's a huge iceberg dead ahead but the captain would rather maintain course, sink the ship and escape on the only lifeboat than admit that there's a better way.
There's a lot of f'd up stuff going on the US in the internet realm, with regards to the consumer, although I was thinking more of the situation in Ireland when talking about suing and strikes. I think the companies realised that here it was too impractical to sue or cut people off because the population is small enough that the cons outweigh the advantages in doing so.0 -
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I was wondering why I hadn't heard of that one but I see that it dates from 2007. I think people have been pretty wary of any kind of file sharing site with a 'kewrl' name from there on out.
I think getting companies of the size we're talking about to change their ways is a bit like getting a supertanker to do a 180 turn. There's a huge iceberg dead ahead but the captain would rather maintain course, sink the ship and escape on the only lifeboat than admit that there's a better way.
There's a lot of f'd up stuff going on the US in the internet realm, with regards to the consumer, although I was thinking more of the situation in Ireland when talking about suing and strikes. I think the companies realised that here it was too impractical to sue or cut people off because the population is small enough that the cons outweigh the advantages in doing so.
Well I am no longer in the US so their methods aren't really that much of a concern to me at the moment. What is of concern is this side of the pond We really need to get our butts in gear and cut out the middleman, in this case the US in internet control. A DNS server can be placed anywhere and all routing does NOT have to go through the US. I am in a country that is also a part of the EU and if we got our act together, all this spying nonsense could simply go away. Think about our history, the US is just a baby compared to the history of Europe, Ireland, Middle East and england. We had all our eggs in a basket for all these Centuries, I think it's time to come together and change some things around. I am not saying cut the US off from the net, not at all, but as it stands right now, they can simply pull the cord and there goes the net, that is too much power for one nation to have over all the other nations. amirite? lol:D 0 -
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I only seed for a few hours with a 100KB global limit tbh. With a days worth of shows queued up I'm rapidly downloading at 10-14MB per second. Yes I am a leech but my leeching hasn't collapsed the torrent system yet.
I use peerblock btw. Some say it helps block IPs from copyright groups, some say its useless. It's free, doesn't affect my day to day Internet usage so I continue to use it regardless of whether it's actually helping.
So as far as my experience goes, UPC are not throttling me in the slightest and are unlikely to be too proactive in getting rid of me as they would lose €160 a month from me. That €160 a month is also the reason I feel no moral qualms about torrenting shows. Everything I torrent is shown on one channel or another on my TV package within hours, days and rarely weeks. The content creators are getting my money via my UPC subscription. I just acquire that content via a different medium to watch what I want, when I want, where I want and without the limitations imposed by unreliable small capacity UPC DVRs0 -
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whomitconcerns wrote: »50KB/s you need to contact UPC tech support, theres a technical issue there..not throttling
The issue only seems to be on BitTorrent. Speedtests are showing the full speed. Will they even deal with me?rent a dedi server and use FTP to get your d/loads or just stream them using Plex
speed test of my Dedi Server, 1080 movie in three minutes
Don't think I need it if I'm honest. Don't DL much.0 -
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