@ anupam_luv : Dunno if u had this problem or not, but a lot of connections in Delhi with 4 mbps speed were facing a slow speed problem around last week, including on my connection. On complaint, I was contacted by the backend team who confirmed that there was indeed a problem on 4 mbps connections and speeds had gone down to 256 kbps from 4 mbps. This was not just torrents but on browsing as well and speedtest as well as their own speed check site confirmed it. They rectified the speeds back to 4 mbps, but since then, I've been facing the same issue of throttling of speeds on torrents in daytime. But this is an old issue and has been happening for a long time, so no choice but to get used to it. Thank you Airtel :annoyed:
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Airtel Broadband blocking torrents and file sharing services
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tusharlovesrafa
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This is really annoying with airtel.1st they throttle the speeds during day time and secondly they implement FUP..I heard the port forwarding could help us..Is that true?? By port forwarding we can change the port number and get pass thru isp's..I have carried glasnost test during the day and it showed that one my 3 ports in 6881 is blocked and they are not capping by downloading speed,but still my download speed is low during day time..Its only after 11pm that i get my full speed till 10 am in the morning..
kattuviriyan
Regular
Guys,Some facts about Airtel's P2P throttling capability: * You can't tweak anything in your torrent or other P2P clients to to override their traffic shaping capability. The P2P algo used is very aggressive 
Forget about any straight forward solution. Don't waste your time on this.* If you really want to bypass throttling get a fast VPN/or configure OpebVPN if you have your own server on the net. But this costs money. But this is the only working option as of now.I don't have problem Airtel throttling in the day time. As long as I get my 4mbps during night for P2P as well it's fine.But, yesterday, even at night P2P was slow for me. I hope it's a temp glitch. I have ~40GB left only account and only 5 more days left.I started my pooled torrents and in the morning only 2GB was downloaded. Generally I get >10GB! If they throttle P2P at night too then they have no common sense as they sell only plans with download limits. Why should someone take 75GB/150GB plans?
Forget about any straight forward solution. Don't waste your time on this.* If you really want to bypass throttling get a fast VPN/or configure OpebVPN if you have your own server on the net. But this costs money. But this is the only working option as of now.I don't have problem Airtel throttling in the day time. As long as I get my 4mbps during night for P2P as well it's fine.But, yesterday, even at night P2P was slow for me. I hope it's a temp glitch. I have ~40GB left only account and only 5 more days left.I started my pooled torrents and in the morning only 2GB was downloaded. Generally I get >10GB! If they throttle P2P at night too then they have no common sense as they sell only plans with download limits. Why should someone take 75GB/150GB plans?
i have been getting decent speeds on torrents during the day time on a random basis. at nights it is fine. sometimes i have to restart my torrent client to get it to top speed. otherwise it remains stuck on slower speeds. always check the speeds you are getting in the client before you go to sleep. by the way, i prefer vuze over utorrent for my torrent downloads. somehow vuze always works better for me compared to utorrent. also. i am talking about public torrents only. not a user of private torrents.
MonsterBallsofDoom
Crotch Shot Expert
just restart your modem and as soon as net connection resumes , open your torrent client . it is working for all my friends . instead of constant 500 kbps , i get speed variates from 350-500 kbps . also , using private trackers seems to help instead of trackers like link-removed and link-removed .
kattuviriyan
Regular
just restart your modem and as soon as net connection resumes , open your torrent client . it is working for all my friends . instead of constant 500 kbps , i get speed variates from 350-500 kbps . also , using private trackers seems to help instead of trackers like link-removed and link-removed .
kbps - kilibitspersec or kBps- kiloBytespersec?
When Airtel throttles P2p they speed is averages around ~400 to 500kbps for me. but I am on 4096kbps plan... 500 is waste of computer resource- power & time
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i have been getting decent speeds on torrents during the day time on a random basis. at nights it is fine.
sometimes i have to restart my torrent client to get it to top speed. otherwise it remains stuck on slower speeds.
always check the speeds you are getting in the client before you go to sleep.
by the way, i prefer vuze over utorrent for my torrent downloads. somehow vuze always works better for me compared to utorrent.
also. i am talking about public torrents only. not a user of private torrents.
I believe my speed problem is temporary. Let me check tonight. I like the sleekness of utorrent and sticking to it.
kbps - kilibitspersec or kBps- kiloBytespersec?
When Airtel throttles P2p they speed is averages around ~400 to 500kbps for me. but I am on 4096kbps plan... 500 is waste of computer resource- power & time
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i have been getting decent speeds on torrents during the day time on a random basis. at nights it is fine.
sometimes i have to restart my torrent client to get it to top speed. otherwise it remains stuck on slower speeds.
always check the speeds you are getting in the client before you go to sleep.
by the way, i prefer vuze over utorrent for my torrent downloads. somehow vuze always works better for me compared to utorrent.
also. i am talking about public torrents only. not a user of private torrents.
I believe my speed problem is temporary. Let me check tonight. I like the sleekness of utorrent and sticking to it.
MonsterBallsofDoom
Crotch Shot Expert
sorry , i mean kBps
kattuviriyan
Regular
hmmm.. is your solution that simple!!!Let me try out and let you know... but I didn't understand it fully:should we need to restart the modem after the connection is established and then start the torrent client?One thing I know is, initial few minutes it may offer high speed but it will catch up and the speeds are back to ~60kBps levels. Can you tell us exactly how this should be done?
MonsterBallsofDoom
Crotch Shot Expert
just restart the modem and as soon as net starts working , open your torrent client (just watch the lights on modem) . don't open anything before the torrent client . weird but it works 90% of the times .
neevarp
Regulars
One thing I know is, initial few minutes it may offer high speed but it will catch up and the speeds are back to ~60kBps levels.
You are doing exactly what he has suggested. However, this trick does not work all the time. In most of the places (especially in the southern states), they have patched this trick.
Used to work for me until for two or three months before Airtel realized what was going on and started doing what you have posted (raising the speed initially while giving us the time to complement ourselves only to lower the speeds back and make us feel like "whoa, great going").
You are doing exactly what he has suggested. However, this trick does not work all the time. In most of the places (especially in the southern states), they have patched this trick.
Used to work for me until for two or three months before Airtel realized what was going on and started doing what you have posted (raising the speed initially while giving us the time to complement ourselves only to lower the speeds back and make us feel like "whoa, great going").
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