Author Topic: Internet provider loving with my internet? (Read 842 times)

T3HZ3N0N · July 21, 2012, 01:33:03 AM

im torrenting something (OMG PIRACY BAN!!! im not pirating anything friends :I) and it keeps going up to 100KB/s then completely drops back to 1KB/s or less. then i would lose internet for a couple minutes, then it would come back on. is my internet provider loving with me or what?

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KoopaScooper · July 21, 2012, 01:34:41 AM

i don't really think they can monitor packets to tell if it's a torrent or not
i've been wrong about this before but

Fredulus · July 21, 2012, 02:11:36 AM

you just have stuffty internet. or stuffty router that's going out or something.

Darkness ZXW · July 21, 2012, 02:18:27 AM

call them and yell at them

HellsSpot · July 21, 2012, 02:22:59 AM

Force start and/or set the download/upload to unlimited. Pretty sure there was some other option but I I'm not sure...

Kingdaro · July 21, 2012, 02:28:01 AM

this used to happen to me

torrents are just internet hogs :/

ShadowZero · July 21, 2012, 02:28:59 AM

I could of sworn certain ISPs would monitor certain things and if they found people pirating things they would slow down your internet connection until you stop.

Whats your ISP?If its Roadrunner, Comcast, or ATNT that's why.

I could always be wrong you know.

Snaffle J. Bean · July 21, 2012, 02:29:46 AM

My internet would get extremely slow any time I would download one of my humble bundle's via torrent. Didn't slow at all when I downloaded it through Firefox.

Darkness ZXW · July 21, 2012, 02:33:03 AM

Quote from: ShadowZero on July 21, 2012, 02:28:59 AM

I could of sworn certain ISPs would monitor certain things and if they found people pirating things they would slow down your internet connection until you stop.

Whats your ISP?If its Roadrunner, Comcast, or ATNT that's why.

I could always be wrong you know.

roadrunner doesn't do stuff ever

they pretty much gave up the july 1st thing july 2nd

Anybody · July 21, 2012, 02:40:33 AM

Oh no your torrent is slow?! This never happens to anyone!

Sheath · July 21, 2012, 02:43:27 AM

Is the torrent healthy? Are your torrent connections dropping in and out? Just checking to make sure its not just that file.

You may want to try and forward ports or use DMZ and see if that helps.

Not sure why that is happening otherwise, unusual for good internet hosts to cap like that.

Lugnut · July 21, 2012, 02:45:24 AM

Quote from: Sheath on July 21, 2012, 02:43:27 AM

You may want to try and forward ports or use DMZ and see if that helps.

this would only affect seeding.

and yes, it is fairly obvious ISP side when you see 60 connections all targeting one IP address downloading at like 2Kilobytes per second a pop.

Sheath · July 21, 2012, 02:46:32 AM

Quote from: Lugnut on July 21, 2012, 02:45:24 AM

and yes, it is fairly obvious ISP side when you see 60 connections all targeting one IP address downloading at like 2Kilobytes per second a pop.

I'm not sure what point you are making, were those details originally discussed? I don't think so.

dawngaward0110 · July 21, 2012, 04:45:58 AM

My internet provider is doing the same thing. I can't log into steam or other online games without VPN bypass, and torrents won't load trackers. (VPN bypass doesn't work here)