BitTorrent Throttling ISPs Exposed by Azureus

Courtesy TorrentFreak  Mon, 04/21/2008 - 08:55

Data collected by the BitTorrent client Azureus shows that Comcast might only be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to BitTorrent throttling ISPs.

Early findings show that customers from quite a few other Internet service providers experience an unusually high amount of TCP-resets.

azureusISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for quite a while, but only since the Comcast debacle has this been picked up by mainstream media.

A few months ago Azureus petitioned the...

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