Need prove that Airtel may be throttling/shaping my bandwidth

[mallumax]

in any case, internet on airtel is indeed throttled (torrents during day time). so there is ample proof about that. if you plan to sue airtel for doing this, you have my support.

Off topic, but I get full speed (4 mbps) on torrents at all times. They are from private trackers. Public trackers usually do not hit that speed. I think that's because lot of public tracker seeders/clients are monitoring bots run by anti piracy firms.

Also according to this data - Glasnost: Results from Tests for BitTorrent Traffic Shaping - none of the Indian ISPs throttle bittorent. You can use that site to check if the traffic is being throttled.

 

[Sushubh]

airtel definitely throttle torrents during the day time. not everyone is affected but majority of their customers are. throttling is not perfect. i have had days when it works fine during the day time. but most airtel users here would tell you that torrent downloads are very heavily throttled during day time.

as for glasnost... it does not show throttling even on my connection. i can only say that airtel is probably using a different technology to do the same. and there are reports showing that some users have seen the test show positive result to them. https://broadband.forum/airtel-broadband/80713-33-tests-airtel-shows-deep.html

 

[mallumax]

I have always got 100% speed when using a private tracker and maybe 30-100% speed using public trackers. This has been consistent for last two years. It will be interesting to test with the same torrent.

 

[Sushubh]

maybe you are one of the lucky few who have somehow escaped their throttling. enough people have posted here about the slowdown between 10am and 10pm. i have myself confirmed several times. same torrent started at 9pm would download at around 12-15KBps but as soon as it reaches 10:15pm... speeds would start peaking at 400-450KBps.

 

[mallumax]

https://img.skitch.com/20120911-fjnxfxu371hw58tf6a16qpmnup.jpg - Just tested it. Getting full speed. Can you (and others) try on this torrent - http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04.1-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent

If they were throttling torrents, I would have been using 1-2 mbps plans

 

[Sushubh]

i am getting full speeds right now. i have not been using torrents without VPN running so i have not noticed any throttling in the recent months. anyone else here?

 

[uberjon]

They're still throttling. Wanted to see if torrents could max out my line & I checked on both Saturday & Sunday. No luck. Limited to 512kbps.

 

[MonsterBallsofDoom]

Other than torrents (during 10am-10pm), airtel doesn't throttle anything . even for torrents , you can use easy tricks to get full speed without paying for a seedbox . if you download from private trackers then seedbox might be a good investment as because of the FUP limits and low upload speeds it is hard to seed a torrent .

 

[chin]

https://img.skitch.com/20120911-fjnxfxu371hw58tf6a16qpmnup.jpg - Just tested it. Getting full speed. Can you (and others) try on this torrent - http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04.1-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent

If they were throttling torrents, I would have been using 1-2 mbps plans

Hey get me your telephone number with std code ..
I will let airtel know about it that you are not been throttled. Or i will try tweeting them :smile:

 

[Sushubh]

lol. add me to the list coz i was getting full speeds at around 8:30pm!