Re: PLDT rate limiting torrents?
Michael Tinsay <tinsami1-/[email protected]>
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Is anybody else getting multiple duplicates of this particular thread? Anyway... Just this past holiday week I was able to download a 2GB file via bittorrent using a Smart BRO LTE USB stick with a prepaid LTE sim. It took less than two hours. No throttling experienced here. Also from experience, Globe throttles your *entire* connection when it detects high P2P traffic, but not PLDT/Smart. I'll try to test PLDT DSL again when I get back to the office. Maybe they're testing out new network traffic management gears. --- mike t. On Sunday, 5 January 2014, 23:22, [C]hicken [G] od <[email protected]> wrote: I am no networking expert but according to the local forums PLDT has some issues with one of the international undersea cables. If torrents work on an encrypted connection the rumours may be true that throttling is occuring. On Jan 5, 2014 9:09 AM, "Robert Locke" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi gang, > >Is anyone experiencing problems with BitTorrent on PLDT myDSL? I'm maxing out at 10 to 20kB/s download, a far cry from the 600 to 700 kB/s I used to be getting a few weeks ago. > >For the record, my connection seems fine in every other respect - http, video, voip, etc all work well. Speedtest.net reports the usual 5 to 6 Mbps of download speed. I haven't touched my modem or wireless routers in months and none of them support QoS anyways. I've tried several torrent clients (e.g., uTorrent, Transmission, Vuze, etc), but no luck. > >One curiosity is that sometimes my download speed will reach 300+ kB/s, but *only* when I'm connected to a fast peer *within* the PLDT network. This, more than anything, indicates there may be some kind of filtering going on. > >I've found a work around by tunneling the Torrent traffic through a remote server, but it's a bit of a pain. > >Any theories? > >Cheers, >Rob >_________________________________________________ >Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph