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File sharers get help spotting ISP interference

PETER SVENSSON

Associated Press

Latest comment posted at 3:03 PM EDT 29/03/08

Vuze Inc., makers of Azureus, is giving users tool to help figure out if their Internet provider is interfering with their traffic ...Read the full article

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  1. D. Clearwater from Lethbridge, AB, Canada writes: I wonder how much this goes on in Canada. I have noticed that my cable Internet access has diminished in speed a lot over the last year or so and in just the last couple of months it has been horrible. I just wonder if there is something that all the marketers for ISPs are not telling us... are we not being led to believe that internet bandwidth is infinite?
  2. Joseph Whistle from Canada writes: Immediately obvious is that Rogers is the grand master overlord of traffic shaping. Speeds plummet down to under 10 KB when using BT. People think that there are 2 providers to choose from, kind of. Cable or Sympatico. Wrong ! There are literally numerous of providers, that happily provide you very high speed for $30 a month, are very reliable, and don't interfere with traffic at all.
  3. Randal Oulton from Canada writes: "The company has acknowledged to the practice...."

    huh?
  4. Imperial K from Toronto, Canada writes: The problem with they limiting, is that the only reason you need blazing fast internet...is for file sharing.

    Otherwise, browsing flash sites and regular sites does NOT require 10GBGBGBBBXST/ whatever to view the pages faster.

    They are kinda giving a bait and switch, the only reason to have high bandwidth is for file sharing, but they limit it if you do...so..what the hell was the point?

    I don't recall having to send 500MB personal videos home of my last vacation or likewise. It just doesn't happen for 95% of the population.

    Suggestion, if you don't file share, get regular speed....you don't need to pay for that as it's a lie.
  5. The Wight from Canada writes: There was an open source program that did just this, monitored traffic flow based on protocol, port, etc. and timed the hops on the way out. I was able to clearly see that my ISP was artificially limiting my Vonage VoIP service this way.

    This is very good news. I'll be downloading it tonight and running some tests ...
  6. Lou Bix from Van, Canada writes: Time for the ISP to build up the backbone with all the cash they make and stop bitching about people who file share. This will only get worse over time if nothing is done.

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