Test: Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic?

Courtesy TorrentFreak  Wed, 05/07/2008 - 00:39

bittorrent throttlingA while back we posted about the plugin Azureus had developed, which allowed people to check whether their ISP is interfering with their traffic.

The results showed that indeed quite a few ISPs were, but the plugin didn’t provide the user with direct feedback.

The new tool developed by the “max planck institute for software systems” can be used without having to run your BitTorrent client, and compares BitTorrent traffic to regular traffic.

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