Airtel Broadband blocking torrents and file sharing services

[naveen_reloaded]

Alternative downloads | Ubuntu

Legal Torrent. But i guess it too will be throttled. try it and report back , lets see..

on a side note:

These kind of throttling happens imo when the ISP dont invest much in thier infrastructure and route thier profit to other business and other countries (Airtel in africa). Actually TRAI should be asking the ISP`s what kind of improved they are doing in the past years on the infrastructure.

Particularly when AIRTEL has no unlimited plans , its unfair to throttle or involve in any kind of such activity , particularly when users are paying a premium for FUP`d up Plans...

 

[Ryan]

Chrome: I'm doing some testing, so once I know for sure it is that, then I will pass it along via pm but please guys, try NOT to pirate if you can . Also, for that ubuntu torrent, it is NOT being throttled at my end at the moment, but maybe it's because I have RC4 enabled.

 

[hitman]

Hmm.. tht's strange .. I am getting better speed on downloading ubuntu from torrent .. But fluctuation is too much.. sometime speed drops under 100kbps and sometime it touches even 500 ..But mostly it remain between 130-170

 

[MonsterBallsofDoom]

keep calling their engineer every day , i did that 6-7 times(giving reason that my net is not fast enough) when i got the connection 4 months back and i got a call from 3 senior officials from airtel and they all said they don't support speeds on torrents but after all that and i really bad modem issue , my connection hasn't been throttled now . even before that only files larger than 5 GB were getting throttled .actually these says i'm getting 4mbps during day and 7-8 mbps during night(my friend tells me that as i'm not @ my apartment in delhi ) . never complain that speeds on torrents are low , just say that net is slow otherwise they won't send anyone . i had to buy a seedbox for a month anyways to get my ratio set for an year of downloading without uploading as upload speeds on airtel are really bad(700kbps).i uploaded 7.5tb in a single month by seedbox.

 

[dovahkiin]

i have used internal tests in Vuze to check for bandwidth shaping etc etc. no results.

in fact, even using SSH Tunnel failed in my case. have no idea what exactly they are doing. but my torrent speeds suck during the day time. so i do it all during the night. works good enough for me.

SSH tunnel will never fail if set up correctly, vuze on it's own is a crappy client and i think has no support for sock5 , you need socks5 support for shh tunneling, like opera has no support for socks5 but chorme and ff do.



Geek to Live: Encrypt your web browsing session (with an SSH SOCKS proxy)

^ this link shows how set up socks5 for ff but using a linux remote as an ssh tunnel

^ this shows how to set up a ssh using putty in windows

Using PuTTY to create an SSH tunnel

whatever remote you use the ssh window has to kept open just minimize it and keep it alive for the tunnel to work, may connections drop the ssh session on idle , this a known bug on win7 , for that you can use a script to keep session alive.

utorrent, transmission and deluge have socks5 support so try them out.

 

[Ryan]

l33t, what ssh tunnel do you use?

 

[dovahkiin]

if i have to , i run it off my dedi server , but mostly i run a VPN of my server, ssh tunnel is helpful when you are using public wifi or hot spots from cell , since my cell has no app for open vpn i use ssh tunnel . but in any case you need a remote server, vps , sshd shell a/c etc.

 

[rajm11]

l33t plz start a thread about tunnels, SSH, proxy I am personally interested...

 

[dovahkiin]

^ there was already a request about setting up a VPN in this thread , i wrote tutz on installing open vpn , it's in linux section of this forum , we can carry on there , just post any query you have

 

[amish]

SSH tunnel limits ur speed to the server you SSHed too.

Plus SSH packet overhead increases. So speed drops slightly too.

And if server you are connecting to, if that itself uses Airtel, then that will be throttled too!

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in linux SSH SOCKS tunnel can be easily made using this command:

ssh -fND 8080 username@serverip

username will be ur username on server.

Then in ur torrent client:
SOCKS server wud be 127.0.0.1 and SOCKS port will be 8080. Protocol will be SOCK4