Airtel Broadband blocking torrents and file sharing services

[manu1991]

Well they said that if you have 50 users, "we'll try our best to provide a connection".

 

[ganeshran]

Even with throttling I get 100 kbps during day time.

 

[moindear]

Again it stopped working. Dont know what is happening...I follow "Joy of Tech" at geekculture.

 

[Sushubh]

haha. you are right. sending a tweet to airtel

 

[x720]

@OPNot much choice then, guess you'll have to live with it.

 

[Sushubh]

this is for airtel broadband users only. airtel replied to me that they are able to open geekculture.com at their end. they tell me that something is messed up at my end. kindly post if you can open this domain on your airtel broadband connection. if not, post the tracert.

 

[itzmynet]

same as last time.

Tracing route to geekculture.com [173.245.61.117]over a maximum of 30 hops:  1     4 ms     2 ms     2 ms  192.168.1.1  2    31 ms    28 ms    29 ms  ABTS-AP-Dynamic-x.x.169.122.airtelbroadband.in [122.169.x.x]  3    29 ms    29 ms    28 ms  ABTS-AP-Static-225.240.169.122.airtelbroadband.in [122.169.240.225]  4    30 ms    30 ms    28 ms  125.16.7.125  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.  9     *        *        *     Request timed out. 10     *        *        *     Request timed out. ..........

 

[moindear]

 

[Ryan]

You can bypass speed throttling by using a VPN service. I do, and I get the 4mbps speeds (and above) on torrents, but for the most part I don't use VPN to torrent, I use other alternative solutions. Secondly, using a chinese client called Thunder helps sometimes in downloading torrents. Also, if you have access to linux (or cygwin for windows) it's possible to bypass throttling using 'wget'. These are some alternatives.

 

[Sushubh]

it is still blocked on airtel broadband.