BitTorrent Throttling Internet Providers Exposed

Re:BitTorrent Throttling Internet Providers Exposed by dotBen on Friday October 21, 2011 @12:48PM (#3140583)

I have it on good authority that converting your residential account to a business account (~25% more expensive) will 'remove' Comcast's bandwidth limits (or have them turn a blind eye, etc).

If you don't want to pay the extra, often downgrading the line to the business equivalent of the speed tier below what you are currently using on your residential package will net out a similar monthly fee.

They have better contention ratios on Business accounts and so you may even see faster speeds at that lower tier.

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Re:BitTorrent Throttling Internet Providers Exposed by learc83 on Friday October 21, 2011 @04:07PM (#3141436)

Yes this works. I upgraded to business class because I was going over the limit. Now I use 300-500GB every month with no problems.

Also they have a thing where you can pay an extra $5 to get basic TV (local channels, weather channel public access etc...).

It works out to be cheaper than residential internet + basic channels.

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Re:BitTorrent Throttling Internet Providers Exposed by khafra on Friday October 21, 2011 @01:39PM (#3140818)

Interesting. Will that improve latency, as well? I have a 50mpbs connection, but I'd be happy with a 10mbps if it didn't take 45 seconds to load reddit.

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Re:BitTorrent Throttling Internet Providers Exposed by dotBen on Friday October 21, 2011 @01:44PM (#3140833)

It might in general, but Reddit's bottleneck might be their own servers.

We downgraded a 50Mbps Comcast line to a 25Mbps line and I honestly couldn't see much difference in terms of actual page load time, file download speeds etc but we saved some $

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