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LukeyKid · 04-09-2014 01:27AM #1

Hi im just after realizing that i'm being throttled by my ISP from 20mb/s to 1.5mb/s on bittorrent.

And i was wondering is there and good free VPN's that support Ireland, Im only 18 and im broke most of the time so paying for one isent an option unless pretty cheap and worth it. :P

blackbullet · 04-09-2014 11:35AM

try this zenmate its only for chrome i use it all the time

Mr. G · 04-09-2014 07:33PM

LukeyKid wrote: »

Hi im just after realizing that i'm being throttled by my ISP from 20mb/s to 1.5mb/s on bittorrent.

And i was wondering is there and good free VPN's that support Ireland, Im only 18 and im broke most of the time so paying for one isent an option unless pretty cheap and worth it. :P

Depends on who's sharing it. Some torrents can be very slow and that's due to other uploader's upload speed, rather than your download speed. Someone must upload it to you.

LukeyKid · 04-09-2014 08:29PM

Mr. G wrote: »

Depends on who's sharing it. Some torrents can be very slow and that's due to other uploader's upload speed, rather than your download speed. Someone must upload it to you.

I understand how it works

no it wasn't to do with do with there speed, I restarted my computer just to make sure that everything was working right.
And went straight on to speed test.net and i was getting 17+ mb/s which is normal.
Then i went and opened up Bittorrent and then back straight down to 1.5mb/s repeated this 4 -5 times happened every time i opened up bittorrent or utorrent.

Blackbullet: Ill try that thank you

LukeyKid · 04-09-2014 09:26PM

Really like some help, any other way to stop this throttling its getting really bad

at less then a MB the hole time and its really annoying.

helimachoptor · 04-09-2014 09:29PM

Are you sure your BitTorrent app isn't throttling itself? There are defaults on how many torrents you can download and what's the max speed the application can use, have you changed these?

LukeyKid · 04-09-2014 09:38PM

helimachoptor wrote: »

Are you sure your BitTorrent app isn't throttling itself? There are defaults on how many torrents you can download and what's the max speed the application can use, have you changed these?

Nope i changed nothing and i'm using http://www.speedtest.net/ to check my internet speed and this is what is drop from 17mb to 1.5 when ever i open utorrent or bittorrent.

Mr. G · 04-09-2014 09:48PM

LukeyKid wrote: »

I understand how it works no it wasn't to do with do with there speed, I restarted my computer just to make sure that everything was working right.
And went straight on to speed test.net and i was getting 17+ mb/s which is normal.
Then i went and opened up Bittorrent and then back straight down to 1.5mb/s repeated this 4 -5 times happened every time i opened up bittorrent or utorrent.

Blackbullet: Ill try that thank you

Try torrenting CentOS and see how it downloads. There are usually a lot of uploaders on those to rule out issues with a particular torrent.

Don't forget the difference between MB/s and Mb/s, 8 bits in a byte. Bittorent measures speed in bytes, so 1.5MB/s = 12Mbps, which on a 17Mbps connection isn't bad.

LukeyKid · 04-09-2014 10:12PM

Mr. G wrote: »

Try torrenting CentOS and see how it downloads. There are usually a lot of uploaders on those to rule out issues with a particular torrent.

Don't forget the difference between MB/s and Mb/s, 8 bits in a byte. Bittorent measures speed in bytes, so 1.5MB/s = 12Mbps, which on a 17Mbps connection isn't bad.

Okay thanks

That is working better im getting 1MB/s on that so why is my internet speed on speedtest.net going down to like 1.5 Mb/s and lower ?

05-09-2014 08:46AM

LukeyKid wrote: »

Okay thanks That is working better im getting 1MB/s on that so why is my internet speed on speedtest.net going down to like 1.5 Mb/s and lower ?

Are you downloading torrents while testing your speed? Speedtest only checks how fast you can download from their site, if you're downloading torrents at the same time, you won't have the same amount of bandwidth available to download from them

Spear · 05-09-2014 03:33PM

Just to proactively note something to avoid any grief here, discussion of VPNs is allowed, but discussion of VPNs to enable copyright infringment or any unauthorised access isn't, so bear this in mind.

LukeyKid · 05-09-2014 06:39PM

Spear wrote: »

Just to proactively note something to avoid any grief here, discussion of VPNs is allowed, but discussion of VPNs to enable copyright infringment or any unauthorised access isn't, so bear this in mind.

Not being smart but does downloading torrents automatically mean illegal activity ?

Xantia · 05-09-2014 07:52PM

LukeyKid wrote: »

Not being smart but does downloading torrents automatically mean illegal activity ?

I download Linux versions using torrents all the time, also Raspberry Pi images.

LukeyKid · 06-09-2014 08:52AM

Xantia wrote: »

I download Linux versions using torrents all the time, also Raspberry Pi images.

But that's what i mean its not when ever some says bittorrent or utorrent its straight away suspected to be illegal activity.

Seamus1964 · 06-09-2014 08:59AM

Using knife to cut slice of bread is legal, cutting somebody's head off with it - not so legal.
Its not when ever some says knife or axe its straight away suspected to be illegal activity.

MichealKenny · 07-09-2014 01:25AM

1. You are not being throttled, torrents max out at ~1.5MB/s
2. If your internet is over 10Mbps, consider Usenet.

Why you ask?

massy086 · 07-09-2014 01:28AM

or just learn how to use xbmc. The best thinks in life are free

degsie · 07-09-2014 07:32AM

I used to download Linux distros, now I just stream them....

MichealKenny · 07-09-2014 06:22PM

you mean now you just netinstall them right?

BigEejit · 08-09-2014 09:22AM

If the OP is torrenting without using a VPN or similar then he could be in for a rude surprise. An expensive rude surprise.

For people who do actually have a few quid, I strongly suggest using a VPN for many reasons, 2 of them are:
When your ISP looks at your data crossing their servers and it is encrypted they usually will not throttle you if they cannot identify what you are doing (but they may throttle because of raw usage).
If you want to browse without having NSA, GCHQ or other feckers looking at what you are doing then VPN is the job... or TOR ... but TOR is looking a bit ropey at the moment.

Not all VPN's are the same. Make sure that no usage logs are stored (many keep connection logs for a short while) and pick a country that allows a lot more personal privacy, like Holland. I use cactusvpn and this is the kind of thing you should be looking for https://www.cactusvpn.com/support/faq-general/#q7

LukeyKid · 08-09-2014 01:46PM

BigEejit wrote: »

If the OP is torrenting without using a VPN or similar then he could be in for a rude surprise. An expensive rude surprise.

For people who do actually have a few quid, I strongly suggest using a VPN for many reasons, 2 of them are:
When your ISP looks at your data crossing their servers and it is encrypted they usually will not throttle you if they cannot identify what you are doing (but they may throttle because of raw usage).
If you want to browse without having NSA, GCHQ or other feckers looking at what you are doing then VPN is the job... or TOR ... but TOR is looking a bit ropey at the moment.

Not all VPN's are the same. Make sure that no usage logs are stored (many keep connection logs for a short while) and pick a country that allows a lot more personal privacy, like Holland. I use cactusvpn and this is the kind of thing you should be looking for https://www.cactusvpn.com/support/faq-general/#q7

Okay thanks everyone for the help

and im after getting the free trial for cactusVPN and i was just wondering whats the best protocol

PPTP , L2TP , OpenVPN , SSTP

Seamus1964 · 08-09-2014 03:10PM

Is there any other VPN /SmartDNS service providers who allows more countries - like Finland, Denmark,Germany... etc?
Most of them offers only USA and UK + 2-3 more countries.

wiz569 · 08-09-2014 03:27PM

Seamus1964 wrote: »

Is there any other VPN /SmartDNS service providers who allows more countries - like Finland, Denmark,Germany... etc?
Most of them offers only USA and UK + 2-3 more countries.

I use ghostpath,it has approx 40 different countries

BigEejit · 08-09-2014 03:49PM

LukeyKid wrote: »

Okay thanks everyone for the help and im after getting the free trial for cactusVPN and i was just wondering whats the best protocol

PPTP , L2TP , OpenVPN , SSTP

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=The+Differences+Between+PPTP%2C+L2TP%2FIPSec%2C+SSTP+and+OpenVPN+Connection

BigEejit · 08-09-2014 04:06PM

Seamus1964 wrote: »

Is there any other VPN /SmartDNS service providers who allows more countries - like Finland, Denmark,Germany... etc?
Most of them offers only USA and UK + 2-3 more countries.

Instead of looking at the number of countries I looked at the privacy standards and risk of my data getting into the wrong hands of the countries themselves.

Have a look at http://nomadcapitalist.com/2013/12/15/top-5-best-countries-host-website-data-privacy/ and ended up using the Netherlands because it has a very high privacy standard while also having excellent peering. Other countries that have high privacy standards are Norway and Romania.

LukeyKid · 08-09-2014 09:46PM

BigEejit wrote: »

Instead of looking at the number of countries I looked at the privacy standards and risk of my data getting into the wrong hands of the countries themselves.

Have a look at http://nomadcapitalist.com/2013/12/15/top-5-best-countries-host-website-data-privacy/ and ended up using the Netherlands because it has a very high privacy standard while also having excellent peering. Other countries that have high privacy standards are Norway and Romania.

Thanks for the help

but id like to try this out with out having to pay but there very limited in the trial and i cant get a good connection.

BigEejit · 09-09-2014 09:16AM

I use Amsterdam 5 from cactusvpn and going full belt I get about 4 - 4.5MB/s (60mbit broadband)

LukeyKid · 09-09-2014 11:54PM

BigEejit wrote: »

I use Amsterdam 5 from cactusvpn and going full belt I get about 4 - 4.5MB/s (60mbit broadband)

The reason i want one is so i can have my full 17MB/s all the time so i cant be throttled and i can browse and download an little more private.

degsie · 10-09-2014 06:11AM

LukeyKid wrote: »

The reason i want one is so i can have my full 17MB/s all the time so i cant be throttled and i can browse and download an little more private.

You mean 17mb/s, right?

LukeyKid · 10-09-2014 11:54AM

BigEejit wrote: »

I use Amsterdam 5 from cactusvpn and going full belt I get about 4 - 4.5MB/s (60mbit broadband)

degsie wrote: »

You mean 17mb/s, right?

Okay i'm just after reading about this because there is clearly a big difference :P

But im still a little confused about it, So my broadband speed is 17 megabits/sec so i'm getting 2.1 megabyte download speed ? correct ?

wiz569 · 10-09-2014 12:09PM

LukeyKid wrote: »

Okay i'm just after reading about this because there is clearly a big difference :P

But im still a little confused about it, So my broadband speed is 17 megabits/sec so i'm getting 2.1 megabyte download speed ? correct ?

Correct m8

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