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[Torrentfreak.com] Canadian ISP is throttling Bittorrent traffic · TorrentFreak ...: This is accomplished though bandwidth throttling, which limits the amount of requests the ISP’s servers will respond to. BitTorrent users can set their own limits by imposing restrictions on maximum upload and download rates already;

 [Bramcohen.livejournal.com] bramcohen: Obfuscating BitTorrent: Bandwidth is always going to be wasted - most people don't use the Internet 24 hours a day, not even at an office. Look at the usage graphs for a home user - some very light usage in the morning (checking the web newpapers, morning mail, etc), scattered usage through the day (home machines checking for software updates and keeping NTP clocks up to date), then heavy usage between 4pm and 10pm (between kids coming home from school and going to bed) with a peak at 6pm-8pm.

 [Digg.com] digg - Canadian ISP is throttling Bittorrent traffic: They told me it must be a problem with my router or with iTunes (since itunes downloads were being affected as well.) i was assured that Rogers would never block any sort of traffic of anysort, in fact the rep I spoke wiht made me feel like an idiot, since, as he said "If your internet is on, it's on." Eventually I found out that, yes, they were indeed blocking the torrent traffic, and as public outcry increased, they removed the blockage. Well, I guess they put it back.

 [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] Bittorrent Implements Cache Discovery Protocol: "However, Bram Cohen, the creator of the bittorrent protocol and the developer of the mainline bittorrent client did not believe that encryption was the solution, and found (tohether with Cachelogic) a more ISP friendly alternative. However, this new and improved version is promising the opposite, downloads will be accelerated instead of throttled.

 [AlterSlash ~ the unofficial SlashDot digest] Bittorrent Implements Cache Discovery Protocol: This motivated the developers of the most popular Bittorrent clients implement protocol encryption to protect bittorrent users from being slowed down by their ISP’s. However, Bram Cohen, the founder of Bittorrent doubted that encryption was the solution, and found (together with CacheLogic) a more ISP friendly alternative.”

 [MirrorDot - Solving the Slashdot Effect] Bittorrent Implements Cache Discovery Protocol: An anonymous reader writes "CacheLogic and BitTorrent introduce an open-source Cache Discovery Protocol «?» (CDP) that allows ISP's to cache and seed Bittorrent traffic.

[TorrentFreak, torrents and more] CacheLogic and BitTorrent Introduce Cache... : However, Bram Cohen, the creator of the bittorrent protocol and the developer of the mainline bittorrent client did not believe that encryption was the solution, and found (tohether with Cachelogic) a more ISP friendly alternative. However, this new and improved version is promising the opposite, downloads will be accelerated instead of throttled.

 [Zeropaid.com - File Sharing Software, Information & News] How To Encrypt BitTorrent Traffic: More and more ISP’s are limiting throttling BitTorrent traffic on their networks. By throttling BitTorrent traffic the speed of BitTorrent downloads decrease, and high speed downloads are out of the question.

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