New research shows which ISPs are the worst offenders when it comes to reducing BitTorrent speeds. The best ISP if you’re piracy-minded? The answer may surprise you.
With Telstra’s announcement overnight that it is building the infrastructure to kill off bill shock by throttling users’ mobile data speeds once they’d exceeded their monthly allowance, we’ve started wondering if maybe there isn’t a place for both plans.
The first question you have to ask about Telstra’s decision to throttle mobile data instead of charging exorbitant rates for excess usage is why it’s taken so long? The second question you ask is why no other major carrier has beat Telstra to the punch on this?
Were you a Comcast subscriber between April 1, 2006 and December 31, 2008? Did you use Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack or Gnutella? Yes? Then it’s payday for you, to the tune of $US16, as the now infamous PSP class action lawsuit against Comcast has resulted in a previous mentioned $US16 million settlement fund. You have until August 29, 2010 to file a claim. [Ars Technica]
Comcast has just released a series of documents in response to the Federal Communications Commission detailing how, exactly, the ISP filters your traffic. Based on their traffic analysis, five protocols (Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack and Gnutella) were especially filtered. Not anymore. Now Comcast is going to be throttling ALL traffic you generate, even if it’s from their own Fancast streaming video service, if you’re generating abnormally high traffic compared to your peers.
