If you suspect your ISP is throttling BitTorrent traffic and don't want to wait for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to prove it Google wants to help. Their new network measuerment platform, M-Lab, was launched yesterday along with three tools built on it. Glasnost, a tool for determing whether your ISP is manipulating BitTorrent traffic, is one of them.
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They shouldn't of made the same mistakes as Microsoft did and web host Windows 7 beta. They should of used bit torrent to do network load balancing! sheesh! :-D
wow this sounds pretty ungoogle, after all that deliberate filtering they were kinda getting on my nerve.....my thumbs up google...nothing surprisingly new though, kinda like that reinventing the wheel thing, works though, i'll be sure to try it :D
Originally posted by Morreale: Well according to my results, my ISP (Cogeco) throttles my uploading but not my downloading...
Should I care about this? What do I do now?
If they are throttling your uploading (sharing the files, which is the illegal part) then if you are to get mad at them they might try to shut you down.
do they throttle FTP and/or HTTP and/or BT ?
you could try and have someone download from you on those various protocols and their corresponding ports.
Another thing to try is Skype. It's P2P.
I usually use Skype for transferring files across the network as it seems to go A LOT faster then SMB! I haven't tried AFP, though.
I have tried to use this everyday since this was posted and always get the message that server is busy. I want to try it and see if my ISP is doing anything. I doubt it I always have good speeds and never have problems but just wanted to try it out.
