Atlantic Broadband thottles BitTorrent!

Atlantic Broadband thottles BitTorrent!
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bmxmikey861 @ 6th Feb 06:42PM:
Atlantic Broadband thottles BitTorrent!

Just like Rogers cable in Canada, ABB completely throttles BitTorrent and speeds can not be acheived.

I'm truly upset as this is the only broadband internet connection available to me in my area.

I'm stuck using IRC, Newsgroups, and DC++.

I want my BitTorrent!

Does anybody know any ways around?
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winstoda @ 7th Feb 09:59PM:
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I see you're in Middletown. Are you sure you're not lit up for Fios? The only other option is Netgazers but that's pricy and not nearly as fast as ABB or Fios...
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anon @ 14th Feb 09:19PM:
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Use a SOCKS proxy; with some tweaking you'll get semi-decent speeds. Nothing like NO throttle, but do-able.
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anon @ 14th Feb 10:11PM:
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Where can you get a socks proxy at?
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anon @ 15th Feb 06:09AM:
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I call ABB every day now and complain how it is not right for them to limit my speed when we bought 5MB unlimited. Downloading and uploading Torrent files is a nightmare now! I went from 640KBs a sec to next to nothing now and upset isn't the word. Today i was told by them that P2P sharing is mostly illegal downloads so they are policing the net and not allowing it. I can't even host a chat room on Ares. Not one person can make it inside and the room motd took me so long to make so nice. I said i just want to do like other people in the world. So the guy said soon all ISPs are going to block p2p programs. That's a nasty thought.

I have no other ISP choice here. As for doing Bit Torrents I found by rebooting my PC and modem every few hours it makes the torrents start moving again a little better. I know torrent sites don't like you shutting down but its the only way to get any activity. All in all it sucks but i hate giving up something I love to do cause ABB says so. I feel my freedom has been taken away and I can't do what i want to with the service I pay for!
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micropitt @ 18th Feb 07:12PM:
Re: Atlantic Broadband thottles BitTorrent!

No problems here with BitTorrent. Download speed always is between 280kb/s and 320 kb/s which is correct according to the package i pay for.
On the other hand, I don't use BitTorrent 24/7 and i don't use any questionable P2P networks ;)

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houstondude @ 20th Feb 11:58AM:
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Fios will start construction soon in my area. Can't wait, I've had just enough of this p2p throttling crap.
With a 15/2 connection from fios, I can get a max of 3888 gb / 518 gb transferred per month. Insane. And just this sunday, circuit city was selling Seagate 200gb hdds for 29.99. Time to add on some additional hdds :)
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thejynxed @ 22nd Feb 11:37PM:
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They don't throttle my connection at all, and I use Bit Torrent alot. Then again, I also use it for Linux distros, and yes, ISPs CAN tell what you are downloading, as BT traffic is flagged and wide open that way. All the techs have to do is watch the server logs and see everything you do online, heh.
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houstondude @ 23rd Feb 12:37PM:
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It's gonna take 428 hours to download a 700mb file for me on BT. It's been runiing for a couple of days at an average of 1 kbps.
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houstondude @ 24th Feb 12:09AM:
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Whoa, all of a sudden my BT works. Amazingly it reached it's actual speed. Their program must have a bug in it.
»www.upload2.com/?cmd=_viewer&fil···&s=ad15b
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micropitt @ 24th Feb 08:36AM:
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I am making a wild guess here but in theory it could be possible that your computer has a bug and with the Cable Company everything is fine......
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houstondude @ 24th Feb 11:43AM:
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Nope, there are six computers in my home and p2p dosen't work on any of them.
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houstondude @ 24th Feb 11:48AM:
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...actually, before I had Atlantic Broadband, I used BT and LimeWire and they both worked fine. However when I switched, both ceased to work. LimeWire won't even connect to the Gnutella network.
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anon @ 28th Feb 12:46PM:
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My torrents are blocked on Miami Beach. They are using Cisco 7200's which have modules for packet inspection.
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houstondude @ 1st Mar 03:43PM:
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YES YES YES!!!! Verizon contractors are outside burying fiber optic cable. I will be the first one in my neighborhood to get fios. No more throttling!
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houstondude @ 5th Mar 06:35PM:
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Damn. That last post sounded like that of a girl who just got a new barbie. Well, I was excited at the moment is all. If I recall correctly, the fiber optic cable has a maximum bandwidth of 780mbit/125mbit. This comes out to be approximately 78,000kbps down/12,500kbps. Insane huh? Just imagine the power you'd have if you could uncap them somehow.
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anon @ 7th Mar 12:35AM:
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Is anyone else getting unbearable pings? I haven't been able to play any pc or xbox games online for weeks. Atlantic bb is complete shite.
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anon @ 12th Mar 02:38PM:
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Houstondude, just out of curiosity, what city do you live in? Atlantic BB doesn't run any systems in Texas?
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houstondude @ 14th Mar 05:51PM:
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heh, this is an old account. i need to update that.
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David Feifer @ 9th May 01:13PM:
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I've had problems with bittorrent since my cable was set up oh a year to 2 years ago? Made downloads for wow and my linux distros a pain. Thankfully we still have our verizon dsl account active on the router,.. i just connect my winxp box to that one when i need a torrent.
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