GNG News Guy
04-02-2008, 09:01 AM
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Users in our TekSavvy forum (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r20266587-Found-a-way-past-The-Throttle-NO-JOKE), still smarting from Bell Canada's decision to throttle wholesale competing ISPs without warning, are tinkering with ways to get around the throttling of P2P traffic. As we've seen with other ISPs that throttle (Comcast included) many users are finding that that enabling BitTorrent encryption and changing ports returns some of their P2P bandwidth (until Bell Canada catches on to the ports being used).I was throttled this evening to 30kb/s and decided to try some tricks to get past the throttle. After some goofing i decided to try popular protocol ports Like email and port 80 . After waiting I found I was UN throttled when using port 21/80! I thought maybe my throttle was removed So I once again Changed to port 22541 ( my personal BT port) and i was once again throttled i waited 10 minutes nothing changed. i went back to Port 21 Again Unthrottled.
Of course in most cases of traffic shaping, this results in a constant game of cat and mouse between ISPs and users. When users first got around the traffic shaping by Canadian Cable company Rogers using encryption, the ISP just throttled all encrypted traffic. When user started using VPNs to get around the encryption throttle, Rogers began throttling all VPN traffic as well. And so it goes...
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Getting-Around-Bell-Canadas-Traffic-Shaping-93207)
Users in our TekSavvy forum (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r20266587-Found-a-way-past-The-Throttle-NO-JOKE), still smarting from Bell Canada's decision to throttle wholesale competing ISPs without warning, are tinkering with ways to get around the throttling of P2P traffic. As we've seen with other ISPs that throttle (Comcast included) many users are finding that that enabling BitTorrent encryption and changing ports returns some of their P2P bandwidth (until Bell Canada catches on to the ports being used).I was throttled this evening to 30kb/s and decided to try some tricks to get past the throttle. After some goofing i decided to try popular protocol ports Like email and port 80 . After waiting I found I was UN throttled when using port 21/80! I thought maybe my throttle was removed So I once again Changed to port 22541 ( my personal BT port) and i was once again throttled i waited 10 minutes nothing changed. i went back to Port 21 Again Unthrottled.
Of course in most cases of traffic shaping, this results in a constant game of cat and mouse between ISPs and users. When users first got around the traffic shaping by Canadian Cable company Rogers using encryption, the ISP just throttled all encrypted traffic. When user started using VPNs to get around the encryption throttle, Rogers began throttling all VPN traffic as well. And so it goes...
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Getting-Around-Bell-Canadas-Traffic-Shaping-93207)