Airtel Broadband blocking torrents and file sharing services

[goyal.sanchit]

Well the speed on torrents seem to be fine for me here. When we are talking about throttling how much speed difference are we talking about here?

 

[Ryan]

On some torrents (I had to test so did some torrents which I didn't want to download) the speed is not capped. I think they are throttling speed on public servers such openbittorrent or publicbt something like that.

 

[Ryan]

Does Xunlei actually work? I wonder how Airtel is throttling because even when using encryption (RC4) it still does not increase in speed.

 

[salmankhan]

ok i thought airtel wasnt throtling torrents but they are..after a cheap 5gb of allowance then speed reduced to 256kbps and now throttling torrents during the dayF*** U AIRTEL

 

[Ryan]

ok i thought airtel wasnt throtling torrents but they are..
after a cheap 5gb of allowance then speed reduced to 256kbps and now throttling torrents during the day
F*** U AIRTEL

Yes I agree. I have found 2 solutions that has worked for me. In the meantime, I'm going to be cancelling this and probably jumping to BSNL. Torrents by themselves are not legal, so the ISP should not be doing this to their end users.

 

[hitman]

Who says torrents r illegal?? If u download movies and software then tht is illegal .. No matter wht method u use ..

 

[Sushubh]

i think he just made a typo

 

[hitman]

If someone has any doubt abt airtel capping the torrent .. then see the images below ..
One taken before 10am and other after 10am ..

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/35/90011422.jpg/


http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/841/39219409.jpg/

 

[Ryan]

I know hitman. It seems Airtel is definitely capping. They said they don't support torrents which is fine by me, it's anyway a 3rd party application that an ISP should not support but then why are they interfering with it. Heh. Anyway, it sucks.

 

[naveen_reloaded]

I know hitman. It seems Airtel is definitely capping. They said they don't support torrents which is fine by me, it's anyway a 3rd party application that an ISP should not support but then why are they interfering with it. Heh. Anyway, it sucks.

I am little curious , did airtel say that they dont support torrent ? I think, In general no ISP as of now can discriminate any particular application and interfere with the bandwidth shaping. I dont really get the idea of third party application ..? CAn you explain on that ?

@hitman can you see if there is capping with encryption for inbound and outbound connection in utorrent setting ?