[ale] bittorrent issues with Bellsouth

[Marc Ferguson]

Is throttling legal?  I would think you could call tech support and have
them address the throttling issue.  You are a paying customer and I
think you're entitled to the full bandwidth you're paying for.

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 20:33 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:

> James Sumners wrote:
> > Actually, I had that particular problem a couple years ago when using
> > Speedfactory. Switching the modem mostly alleviated the issue. I think
> > the modem they supplied was getting overloaded.
> 
> Hmm, this modem is only a couple of months old and it's not a cheap one 
> either.  integrated wireless and voip.
> 
> I hate to think it's the modem.  I've got a spare I'll give a shot and 
> see if the problem disappears, thanks.
> 
> > 
> > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> >> I've done a bit of research on this issue and apparently there are a
> >> number of ISPS that are throttling bandwidth when users are using
> >> bittorrent.  Apparently this shows up as a high number of tcp-resets.
> >>
> >> What I've recently experienced is my connection is actually dropped and
> >> I have to power cycle my modem to get the connection back up again.
> >>
> >> I don't think this is a coincidence as it's happened twice in the past
> >> week and only when I had bittorrent running.
> >>
> >> Anyone else with Bellsouth seen anything like this?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Until later, Geoffrey
> >>
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> 
> 

Marc F.
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