Airtel Broadband blocking torrents and file sharing services

[PrK]

^^^ +1

 

[linkingeek]

Further:Boy Thumb Down: bad news is they are throttling nights also from now onwards.It means a world without P2P , i'm moving now to 128 kbps plan from 2mbps because now only mails have remain important to internet:cakeso we should celebrate rebirth of internet as in near future we may see some new technology which will carry forward to this file sharing trend)

 

[SiriusB]

This may not be a fix, but just a recent observation:Like many here, I am getting 2mbps speed hike for the past few days. When only utorrent is running, the torrent speed seems limited to under ~69kBps no matter how many torrents I have forced started. But when a download from link-removed/oron is running (via jDownloader) is running, utorrent seems uncapped.It could be a coincidence and sometimes, utorrent does become uncapped without a parallel http download happening. Can anyone try this and confirm?

 

[PrK]

Further:Boy Thumb Down: bad news is they are throttling nights also from now onwards.
It means a world without P2P , i'm moving now to 128 kbps plan from 2mbps because now only mails have remain important to internet:cakeso we should celebrate rebirth of internet as in near future we may see some new technology which will carry forward to this file sharing trend)

nope they aren't throttling at night...from around 1030pm to 12 am, sometimes even more, i get normal speeds.

 

[gotobharti]

There is no doubt that Airtel is throttling p2p (torrent) traffic. There have been numerous posts about subscribers getting drastically reduced speeds from 9am to 9pm or so.In Delhi, I have personally experienced the same several times. Giving the excuse of illegality of p2p is none of Airtel's business as all the downloads are not illegal and then illegal downloads are not their issue at all.I am not sure whether this comes under net neutrality or not, but this is definitely an unethical practice by Airtel and TRAI should definitely take it up under the garbs of network KPI's of ISP's.I am not sure whether TRAI accepts online comments as well, like they do in their open forums. If they do, can someone provide the link for the same.Regards

 

[huyogi]

I agree that the legality of downloads may not be Airtel's business unless such a directive has been issued to it by TRAI or any other concerned authority; but, and i say this without any proof, most p2p traffic is definitely of the illegal pirated variety and should be discouraged altogether. And why not when there are alternative legal downloads available for almost every need today. I for one have never understood this insistence on torrents.

 

[gotobharti]

It is a misconception that torrents are being used ONLY for illegal downloads. Many legitimate softwares are these days being distributed through peer to peer networks, as this is one of the most efficient method of distribution.Going forward, this method of distribution is going to be adopted even by paid version of softwares / movies / games, etc., with actual software using p2p while license for the same being bought online.Airtel has no business throttling any type of traffic. Can they go public saying while taking their Broadband connection, p2p will be throttled ? Or, can they fully block it if they construe it to be illegal ?

 

[Sushubh]

heh. earlier this week i had to download ubuntu ISO. found out that using torrents i was getting 25% of the speed i was getting through HTTP. downloaded it through HTTP. felt sad.

 

[huyogi]

heh. earlier this week i had to download ubuntu ISO. found out that using torrents i was getting 25% of the speed i was getting through HTTP.

downloaded it through HTTP. felt sad.

Why, for heaven's sake when a faster direct download, with less chances of being corrupted is available? I quite agree about "Airtlel having no business..", but what if they were acting under some tacit or implied constraint imposed by TRAI, etc. requiring them to oversee misuse of connection for piracy or something like that? Again, i am only speaking from the top of my head, i have little or no insight into the inner workings of an ISP or it's legal obligations.

I am no fan of Airtel, for the record i swear by my Reliance connection and am openly contemptuous of their (Airtel's) FUPs and inflated tariffs, but still...

 

[Sushubh]

i prefer torrent for downloading because it does not cost the other party in bandwidth charges.