Author Topic: ISP Traffic Shaping (perhaps where PeerGuardian gets some of it's sites)  (Read 6560 times)

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Was looking a around for plugins for VUZE (Azureus) and found this one specifically designed to measure ISP attacks on BTorrent traffic.
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_details.php?plugin=aznetmon

http://cache2.vuze.com/docs/internet_future/First_Results_from_Vuze_Network_Monitoring_Tool.pdf
this is the data which if you look at peer guardians blocked ip/entities you'll notice a lot of familiar names.

this link talks about comcast in particular and rogers a little (my soon to be ex-ISP) but had a good explanation (in non technical terms) how they mess with Bittorents.  http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttles-bittorrent-traffic-seeding-impossible/

in case anyone else lives in a Traffic Shaped environment my clients are in order of preference  FrostWire (seemingly immune), Vuze (tweakable-more bells and whistles out of the box), utorrent (sometimes (maybe) little faster than vuze-but that may be subjective) and Bitcomet gets really wacked with its default settings.

if seen a few guides advising to avoid shaping to cap u/p speed at 85% but my neck of the woods i find to get a good solid 55-60KB/s d/l (ya i know another reason to upgrade my ISP) capping the u/l at 5-15KB/s and i slip under the ISP hacking at me. ;)