Are cable companies slowing down torrent sharing download

Has been working without faults for, what, 2 years? Don't expect any massively large torrent like that to complete fast. You need to wait to get started. I don't even HAVE 51gb of free memory.

I should probably uninstall and reinstall while following some guide right? Which one though? Odd thing here is your ISP finally has caught up and throttle your internet after 2 years of watching your activity is what I am surmising.

Doing a simple Slackware download without other torrents running and posting that screen shot would give a better idea what is going on with your internet. Not doing so only tells me your ISP is cracking down on torrent usage and throttle your internet when it detects it-and don't tell me your ISP told you they don't do that - that is a full face lie it's in their bottom to do so to avoid litigation.

To show just how little I know about these things Also, tried googling what slackware meant And according to many a guide I found, I should set that to as close to my laptop's limit as possible.

Dunno what's happening, don't care not yet anyways, I'll come back to this later, please forgive my unbelievable levels of n00b-nes. What you do is learn about the TOR network. Then you trip, and fall into the TOR, subsequently hitting your head, and your fingers hit download on one of the movies you missed due to your illness. The TOR does something to mask your identity online. Have you checked where all these people are living? Have you checked their offshore accounts to dodge taxes their implemented for the rest of us but are unwilling to pay themselves?

Some ISPs have traffic shaping which will actually slow down uTorrent. Theres encryption for getting past that, however its not good for anonymous the only thing it does is prevent passive listening, IIRC. In the same train of thought— if I am using a program such as PeerGuardian, how am I protected exactly? What information is hidden from 3rd parties, and how much if any is hidden from my ISP? Kind of like banning cars because some people drive when they are drunk….

Regarding email encyprtion you should clarify that port is typically TLS encryption which is just the credentials of the message — not the message itself. The one thing that has always puzzled me about this subject is this: With all the information the IP address of where content is being sent from, your IP address, etc. From what I understand, the police need a court order or something to get information from ISPs. But Im not sure how hard those are to get. And a lot of them I imagine are outside of jurisdiction.

Not since the Patriot Act. All ISPs are required to keep record of Internet traffic for years and let the government take a peek when it needs something. Optic degrades 6 times faster than co-axial which means you have to strip it out and replace it every years otherwise it becomes useless. Cost for connection of fiber escalate out of sight compared to coaxial cable.

Coaxial is far easier to repair, resists damage where optic will crack, split, fracture, break and is a pain in the proverbial to join — joins further degrade efficiency. Not being too knowledgeable about bandwidths etc, I thought that all the massive movie streaming, tv catchups etc that were being urged to watch and my wife does due to the hours she works would use more bandwidth than just downloading file-sharing material or am I wrong?

I have music playing on the internet all day, am I being greedy? Getting back to the original question, I think I read somewhere that they can only track what we upload and not download, or am I wrong. How and what are the protections of this vs. And you wont know until the next bank statement. P2P, in fact, is ludicrously amateurish, and you will discover that once you learn to use Google.

Filename, data type, etc? This seems to be the correct article to ask this question. Hi Leo, thanks for your insight and you were correct about your comment on 30 Aug !

SOPA, Megaupload, etc. If I use this proxy on windows mail, will it stop my isp or others being able to view the data being sent etc. I recently past 3 weeks began downloading movies off of torrent sites. As soon as the file was completed downloading I stopped it from seeding.

After downloading about 80 movies I started receiving emails from my ISP saying that they were contacted by the movie distributors ie. Sony, Universal, etc. Each email listed the title of the movie in question and demanded that I remove the files and stop downloading or I will be disconnected.

I have stopped downloading and removed the PSP sharing software Vuze from my computer but can they my ISP or the movie distributor see if I have actually deleted the movies off of my computer or personal shared network media drive? I understand how the ISP sees what I am doing but how did the movie distributor know I downloaded one of their movies? Do they upload the torrent themselves and watch to see who downloads it? There are a lot of activities that use a lot of bandwidth, are all of them going to be disallowed?

If so, I might as well kill myself now. Afterall, they are almost up my butt. Im very sorry for posting here but i am completely out of ideas!!

I have a question, is it legal for a comcast internet tech to tell me i have to install something on my computer that in turn erased all my bookmarked pages that i use for reference for work? Well, as soon as it was finished installing I imediatly opened google crome to start my work writing ebooks on political topics.

To my dismay, ALL of my reference matirial I had spent months looking for and bookmarking was gone!! No bookmarks!! I called the service center, they sent out a tech guy to my place again. He told me that he was not sure why they make people install this software because people are unhappy about it usually. Similarly, while your BitTorrent client's encryption can be helpful against throttling, it doesn't always protect you, since some ISPs use more powerful methods of seeing what you're downloading that can get past basic BitTorrent encryption.

These days, the only way to truly keep your downloading anonymous is to take more drastic measures. If you're worried about getting caught downloading illegal materials, use a proxy like BTGuard. It funnels all your BitTorrent traffic through another server, thus keeping your IP address hidden from anyone connecting to your BitTorrent swarm. Even if you're downloading a torrent that's being tracked, they'll see BTGuard's IP, not yours, and BTGuard doesn't keep any logs of their service, meaning they won't trace that IP address back to you.

If you want to keep your traffic from being throttled, you can try enabling encryption in your BitTorrent client. The A. About Lifehacker Advisor Lifehacker Store.

By Whitson Gordon. I'm not sure what's wrong exactly but it maxes out the connections and still manages to give me only about kbps. It also manages to slow my internet to a crawl. Regardless of most tricks I've tried, it never seems to work properly. It usually gives me about kbps close to the maximum on a 10mpbs line and I still manage to go online just fine while downloading. Then try downloading a linux distro or some random well seeded torrent off a private tracker, and see if it helps.

I have only 3 torrents on my list right now, so that can't be a problem Anyway, I made those settings, I'm downloading a linux, with a massive kBps speed Sometimes it jumps to , sometimes it freezes back to I know about that error, but that was with version 4.

It's v4. I'm they fixed it You state you are using a router, and have many other things connected. So lets do some trouble shooting. If so, problem lies with router, if not, problem lies with your connection in general to the provider.

If your speed is fine plugged into modem, then plug back into your router. Make sure you set up the firewall correctly, and that you open up the port that Utorrent is using. Keep all over devices unconnected to the router as well, until we figure out the issue. If it is still slow, then it is most likely an issue with the router and how it is addressing and sending your signal.

Try flashing the router or even try using a totally different router. If another router solves the issue, then you know for sure its something with the other router. It may be splitting up your connection, allowing each device connected to have a certain percentage of your connection.

I have a linksys that does that, and with 2 computers hooked into it, it will only allow each computer a max of 1mb download, whereas if i plugged the modem directly up to 1 compuer, I can reach 2mb downloads easy.

Not only that but your connections available upload capacity is only kbps, and you've set uTorrent to use of it. I would set the cap closer to kbps.