From VuzeWiki
The following is a list of Internet service providers (ISPs) that are known to cause trouble for BitTorrent clients, Online Gaming and/or other P2P clients and the reason why. If you are using one of the following ISPs, please consider finding a new, better one. If your ISP is not on the list and you have reason to believe they are shaping traffic, you might consider helping others and adding the information to the list here. However, before you do that, please ensure that you have read about good settings and NAT problems.
You might also test with the built-in Mlab speed test in Vuze for your effective speeds and also for possible traffic shaping/throttling/blocking activity. Go to Help menu, select "Speed test..." and run the "General speed test".
One of the biggest problems are providers that perform traffic shaping on P2P protocols, see Avoid traffic shaping for advice on how to counter that. You'll need that if your ISP is listed with an encryption level greater than 0 or a question mark.
It may also benefit people if dates are mentioned as these can be a reference point to whether the information is current or outdated.
[edit] ISPs by country
[edit] Armenia
[edit] Argentina
[edit] Australia
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| Bigpond, Australia
| No
| No
| ?
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| dodo, Australia
| No
| No
| ?
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Exetel, Australia
| No
| No
| 2
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| iburst, Australia
| Yes
| No
| ?
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Optus, Australia
| No
| No
| 5
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Unwired, Australia
| Yes
| No
| 2
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| myONE, Australia
| Yes
| No
| ?
| No
| No
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| No
|
| Internode, Australia
| No
| No
| ?
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Apex Telecom, Australia
| No
| No
| ?
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Vivid Wireless, Australia
| Yes
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
|
| Tpg
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
|
[edit] Austria
[edit] Belgium
[edit] Belarus
[edit] Barbados
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| Cable and Wireless
| Yes
| No
| ?
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
[edit] Bolivia
[edit] Brazil
[edit] Canada
| ISP
| disconnects service upon sensing torrent downloading
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| Acanac, Canada
| No
| Wholesale, see note below
| No
| 5+, They offer free VPN-tunnel service to clients to get around the Bell throttle.
| No
| yes, no if using VPN
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Bell, Canada
| No
| No
| No
| 5+
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Cogeco, Canada
| No
| No
| No
| 5+
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Delta Cable, Canada
| No
| No
| No
| 0
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| Yes
|
| Distributel, Canada
| No
| Wholesale, see note below
| No
| 5+, Provides SLPPP/MLPPP to bypass throttle
| No
| See below
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| EastLink, Canada
| No
| Yes
| No
| 2+
| No
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| ElectronicBox, Canada
| No
| Wholesale, see note below
| No
| 5+, Bell Wholesale (see below)
| No
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| NCF, Canada
| No
| Yes
| No
| 5+, Bell Wholesale
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Rogers, Canada 10
| No
| Yes - but phasing out by end of 2012
| No
| 5+
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Shaw, Canada
| No
| Temporarily, only when necessary
| No
| 2+ (Mar. '09 - Shaw customer reports level 4 plus steps 1 and 2 under level 5 now required to prevent throttling)
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Telus, Canada
| No
| No
| No
| 0
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Teksavvy, Canada
| No
| Wholesale, see note below
| No
| 5+, Provides SLPPP/MLPPP to bypass throttle
| No
| See below
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Videotron, Canada
| No
| No
| No
| 0
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Xplornet (satellite), Canada
| No
| Yes
| No
| 0
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| Yes
| No
|
Canada has resellers and wholesale. Resellers don't have their own equipment, and just resell large ISPs services. Wholesale will own their own equipment, and provide their own transit out of the large ISP's network. This prevents duplication of 'last mile' infrastructure. Note many wholesale companies wholesale DSL and Cable across the country from various large ISPs, so everything is based on the larger ISP they're whole-selling.
Due to the way wholesale works in Canada (wholesale equipment is generally AFTER incumbent DPI systems), all Wholesale ISPs will be affected in the same way for each area.
- Bell DSL Wholesale: Does not throttle
- Rogers Cable Wholesale: Does not throttle
- Shaw Cable Wholesale: Bittorrent uploads are managed to 80kbps only on congested nodes. All management is removed once the node has been upgraded (ie approx 2 months).
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| Movistar, Chile
| No
| No
| 0
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| VTR Chile
| Yes
| No
| 2+
| Yes
| Always
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Claro Chile
| ?
| ?
| ?+
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
|
[edit] Costa Rica
[edit] Croatia
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth 3
| Tier 1 partners might shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| OK-TV
| Yes
| Yes
| Not helping
| Yes
| No
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| No
|
[edit] Czech Republic
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| UPC, czech republic
| Yes
| No
| ?
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
[edit] Denmark
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| Sydfynsne
| No
| No
| 0
| No
| No
| No
| No
| Yes
| No
|
[edit] France
[edit] Germany
T-Systems is the Tier 1 provider for Germany and they either manually throttle all BitTorrent characteristic traffic (encrypted or not) by throttling all traffic for the entire PPPoE session within 5 minutes after connections have been established or they have a constantly recurring overloading problem at their gateways and routers (which according to MaxMind GeoIP are in the Netherlands, curiously), the extremes at which is throttled vary but are usually between 100kbps and 500kbps, with the effects much more severe if BitTorrent mainlineDHT is in use, IPv6 over a 6to4 tunnel is transferring data or the more active TCP connections you have or if UDP connections are used. This is evidenced by the fact that the download speed is much higher shortly after start, than it is after said 5 minute window (this includes a parallel running FTP or HTTP transfer), even though the number and bandwidth available through remote test hosts far exceeds the badwidth available for the local host. If BitTorrent traffic stops on the session, it can take up to 15 minutes but bandwidth will return to normal state (via HTTP and FTP). Bandwidth will also return to the normal state if the PPPoE connection on a DSL router is severed and reinitialized.
After analysis and testing via residential DSL connections, cable connections and hosts in datacenters, it is evident that the throttling either occurs at the Tier 1 level or that all connections which run over DTAG operated lines are affected (DTAG owns and maintains all physical connections in Germany and several surrounding areas).
There is currently no perfect solution to mitigate their traffic shaping effects, be they intentional or unintentional, but the fewer IP connections are active, the better the results for possible speed.
Mitigating the problem: Use encryption level 4 (has no real effect, but will prevent them from finding a new shaping method too quickly), set outgoing connections to a fixed source port (Tools -> Options -> Connection -> Advanced Network Settings -> Bind to local Port) which is different from your incoming port (this will only work on Windows 2000 and newer or Linux based operating systems). Do not forward this port in your NAT device or firewall to prevent rogue clients or man in the middle devices from sending packets to it.
Further recommendation, if you have an IPv6 capable NAT device: Find a reliable 6to4 tunneling provider (try SixXS), use Java 7 and enable the checkbox at Tools -> Options -> Connection -> Advanced Network Settings -> Enable IPv6 support but disable the checkbox at Prefer IPv6 addresses when both IPv4 and IPv6 are available.
Please be aware that this is only a temporary solution and you may get a lot of NAT errors with some of your torrents (you're still reachable via the old forwarded incoming ports).
[edit] Greece
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| HellasOnLine, Greece
| Yes
| No
| 2+
| No
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
[edit] Hong Kong
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| [City Telecom, Hong Kong]
| Yes
| Yes
| 2+
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
[edit] Hungary
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| Mikro NET, Hungary
| No
| No
| 0
| No
| No
| No
| No
| Yes
| No
|
| UPC, Hungary
| Yes
| No
| 2+
| No
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Telenor Magyarország ZRt.
| Yes
| No
| ?
| Yes, for all traffic
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| T-Mobile Hungary
| No
| No
| 0
| Yes, for all traffic
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| [BSNL Dataone, India]
| Yes
| No
| ((yes2))
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
|
| [Reliance Netconnect +, India]
| Yes
| Yes
| 0
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| No
| Yes
|
| [Reliance Broadband, India]
| Yes
| No
| 2+
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| Yes
|
| [MTNL Triband, India]
| Yes
| No
| 0
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| No
| Yes
|
| [SIFY, India]
| Yes
| No
| 0
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| No
| Yes
|
| [Airtel Broadband, India]
| Yes
| Yes
| 2+
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
|
| [Tata Photon+, India]
| Yes
| Yes
| 2+
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
|
[edit] Indonesia
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia
| No
| No
| 0
| No
| No
| No
| No
| Yes
| No
|
| FastNet (by First Media)
| Yes
| No
| 0
| Yes, Limit bandwidth speed through calculating upload speed usage from account in Shared Area.
| Yes, Limit Download upon reaching certain download quota limit.
| Yes, P2P Blockage from time to time.
| Yes, From time to time.
| No
| No
|
| 3 Indonesia
| Yes
| No
| 0
| No, not only for BitTorrent traffic but also HTTP traffic
| No
| No
| No
| Yes
| No
|
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth - محدودیت پهنای باند در تورنت
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level - پیشنهاد سطح رمزگذاری
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume - محدودیت پهنای باند برای حساب هایی با حجم ترافیک بالا
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day - محدودیت پهنای باند در زمان های خاصی از روز
| prevents seeding 2 - جلوگیری از دانلود تورنت
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3 - فیلتر کردن دانلود فایل های تورنت
| causes unsolvable NAT problem ایجاد مشکل در NAT
| offers no real flatrate
|
| Shatel - شاتل (آریا رسانه تدبیر) , Iran
| Yes
| No
| 0
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Sepanta - سپنتا , Iran
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
|
| Neda Gostar Saba - نداگستر صبا , Iran
| Yes
| ?
| ?
| No
| No
| No
| No
| ?
| Yes
|
| Irancell - ایرانسل , Iran
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
|
| ParsOnline - پارس آنلاین , Iran
| ?
| ?
| ?
| Yes
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
|
| Rasaneh Esfahan Net - رسانه اصفهان , Iran
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
|
| Datak - داتک , Iran
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
|
| Azadnet - آزادنت , Iran
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
|
| Respina - رسپینا , Iran
| No
| No
| 0
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Omidan - امیدان , Iran
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
|
| Datak WiMAX - وایمکس داتک , Iran
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
|
| MOBINNET - وایمکس مبین نت , Iran
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
|
| AFRANET - افرانت , Iran
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
|
| AsiaTech - آسیاتک , Iran
| ?
| ?
| ?
| Yes
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
|
[edit] Israel
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| 012 NET, Israel
| Doesn't limit bandwidth, but breaks connections to seeds/peers outside Israel
| No
| 5
| No
| Yes
| No
| No
| Yes
| Yes
|
All Italian ISPs block Thepiratebay.org by law
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| Telecom Italia
| No
| No
| 2
| No
| No
| No
| No, but the whole thepiratebay.org site is blocked
| No
| No
|
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| Zaq By J:COM
| Yes
| Yes
| 5
| Yes
| No
| No
| No, Thepiratebay.org blocked but Thepiratebay.se is not.
| Yes
| Yes
|
My WiMax are adamant they don't throttle or in any way shape, but it can't be coincidence that every time I download my connection will be cut.
J:COM (zaq) start speed throttling from August2011.160M connection only shows 15 to 20K speed.They admit that P2P is blocked from now.
J:COM (Zaq) Ultra 160M, Osaka area. Throttling speeds on all P2P connections only on their 160M plan. 60Kbyte/s - 70Kbyte/s down speed. HTTP / FTP downloads 8 - 12 Mbyte/s. 40M connection plan seems to be unaffected. This is not stipulated in their contract and thus a change of ISP with an early termination of contract can be obtained without penalty as a result of their own restrictions being placed on a connection without notice. When arranging the change of ISP, remember to argue the point that it is not stated in the contract and that you took out this connection under the belief that you were receiving and unconditional 160M connection . Do not budge on it.
I just got off the phone with J:COM. They have also started throttling P2P on my 160MB connection. It now reaches about 150kb (not kB) per second maximum. HTTP downloads can still reach speed of up to 3 MB/second however.
Softbank BB Ultrawifi service blocks P2P traffic. If you open Bittorent the Internet will just stop working completely. I found that if you pause all torrents and only let one at a time go, it'll let you stay connected for about 20 minutes and then kick you.
So-net "NTT-West Hikari with flets NEXT"(200Mbps in best effort) doesn't block Bittorrent Protocol(at least in Hiroshima prefecture) and up/down speed can be over 180Mbps, but over 30GB/day upload is not allowed and if you over that, you may receive a warning mail.
μTorrent has amount-based traffic limiting system but Vuse doesn't, so you have to limit speed if yo don't want to receive the warning.
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
| comment
|
| Kenya Data Networks
| Yes
| No
| ?
| Yes
| No
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| No
| miraculously reformed after appearing here :)
|
| Zuku
| Yes
| No
| ?
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| No
| Yes
| Speeds are often capped to slower than what was paid for. 512 becomes 256. They say HEAVY NETWORK LOAD, but it seems they are putting profits before customers, bad business practice.
|
[edit] Kuwait
[edit] Malaysia
In 2011,Malaysia goverment release the statement that force ISP to block 10 file sharing site including Pirate Bay and Filestube. This action has make all people that use this ISP in Malaysia make a protest due to this action. International group, Anonymous make respond to this block and attack some of Malaysia site and join by some of local hacker group DragonForce. After that,Anonymous release a method to all Malaysia about technique to bypass this block using method that call Google DNS. Malaysia ISP also limit P2P using technique call Traffic Shaping that don't allow Malaysia people to download file from other country using P2P method due to bandwitch reason.
[edit] Mexico
[edit] Namibia
[edit] Netherlands
[edit] New Zealand
[edit] Pakistan
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| Nexlinx, Pakistan
| Yes
| Yes
| ?
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
|
[edit] Panama
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| Cable&Wireless, Panama
| Yes
| No
| 4+
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| No
|
Note: Only Tested on mobile internet services. This ISP uses D.P.I. (Deep Packet Inspection) to avoid some tests (like Bittorrent specific test), stronger encryption levels may cause disconnections.
Update 15/02/2012: Now they are choking access to TCP/UDP ports due to paranoid policies on their NAT, specially during day or certain sites (badongo, mediafire, some trackers like TPB or KAT, etc). This not only affect to p2p.
About Claro ISP restrictions (in Spanish): http://es.scribd.com/doc/51920923/Clarogate-2-0-La-apelacion
Update 04/05/2012: Since last month, Claro is blocking the Glasnost Test (http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/glasnost.php) choking any port that uses it. Fortunately, i did sucessfully a test and discover the cause (http://es.scribd.com/doc/91667533/Clarogate-2-1-un-ano-despues).
[edit] Philippines
[edit] Portugal
[edit] Russia
[edit] Saudi Arabia
[edit] Serbia
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| Tippnet, Serbia
| Yes
| No
| ?
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
[edit] Singapore
[edit] Slovakia
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| BBNetWorld
| No
| Yes
| 2
| No
| No
| Yes
| No
| Yes
| No
|
[edit] South Africa
[edit] Switzerland
[edit] Thailand
- BuddyBB Home package used TOT line. International bandwidth was limited to 256 Kb/s - 1Mb/s.
[edit] Ukraine
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| MKT, UA
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
[edit] United Kingdom
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| biscit, GB
| Yes
| No
| ?
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| BT Broadband, UK
| Yes
| No
| throttles non-HTTP traffic
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| No
| Yes
| No
|
| Eclipse, UK
| Yes
| No
| 4+
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Freedom2Surf, UK
| Yes
| No
| ?
| No
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Freedom2Surf, UK
| Yes
| No
| ?
| No
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Hyperoptic, UK
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
| ?
|
| Orange, UK
| Yes
| No
| ?
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| Template:No2, Thepiratebay.org IP blocked
| No
| No
|
| PlusNet, UK
| Yes
| No
| ?
| Yes8
| Yes8
| No
| No
| No
| Yes
|
| TalkTalk, GB
| Yes
| No
| Throttles Traffic
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| UK telco O2
| Yes
| ?
| ?
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| Yes
|
| Virgin Media, GB (Cable)
| Yes
| No
| 2+
| Yes7
| Yes7
| Yes
| Template:No2, Thepiratebay.org IP blocked
| Yes
| No
|
[edit] United States of America
| ISP
| limits BitTorrent bandwidth
| Tier 1 partners might 1 shape
| proposed Encryption level
| limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume
| limits bandwidth during certain times of the day
| prevents seeding 2
| prevents/filters .torrent download 3
| causes unsolvable NAT problem
| offers no real flatrate
|
| Atlantic Broadband, US
| Yes
| No
| ?
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Aloha Broadband, Na'alehu, HI, US
| Yes
| No
| ?
| Yes
| No
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
|
| Cablevision's Optimum Online, US
| Yes
| No
| 0
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Insight Communications, US
| No
| No
| 0
| No
| ?
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| ClearWire, US
| Yes
| Yes
| ?
| Yes
| ?
| No
| No
| ?
| ?
|
| SureWestKC
| No
| No
| ?
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| RCN/Starpower, US
| No
| No
| 0
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| iProvo, Utah US
| Yes
| No
| 0
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Qwest, US
| No
| No
| 0
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Digis
| No
| No
| 0
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| Yes
| Yes
|
| Cox
| No
| No
| ?
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Comcast
| Yes
| No
| 5
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| Yes
| No
|
| Charter Communications
| No
| No
| ?
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| ResNet (resnet.*.edu), US4
| Yes
| No
| 2+
| No
| No
| No
| Yes
| No
| No
|
| Shadownet
| No
| No
| 0
| No
| No
| No
| No
| Yes
| No
|
| DirecPC
| No
| No
| 0
| No
| No
| No
| No
| Yes
| No
|
| AT&T ADSL5
| Yes9
| No
| 0
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| Yes9
|
| AT&T U-verse ADSL2+ HSI5
| Yes9
| No
| 0
| No
| No
| No
| No
| Yes11
| Yes9
|
| AT&T U-verse VDSL5
| Yes9
| No
| 0
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
| Yes9
|
| Time Warner Cable
| Yes
| No
| 5
| No
| No
| No
| No
| Yes
| No
|
| Windstream Communications/PennTeleData5
| No
| No
| 2+
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| Yes
|
| US Sonet/Qwest Reseller5
| No
| No
| 2+
| No
| No
| No
| No
| Yes
| No
|
| Cinergy MetroNet
| No
| No
| 0
| No
| ?
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| Suddenlink Communications
| No
| No
| 0
| Yes12
| No
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
[edit] Venezuela
[edit] Challenged entries
Entries listed here have been challenged by at least one person and require further verification
[edit] Statistics
- Note 1: This information is hard to verify and thus only tentative but remember you should only download when needed
- Note 2: Enabling Tools -> Options -> Transfer -> Use lazy bitfield will probably help, try encryption otherwise
- Note 3: Download .torrents in .zip files, via HTTPS or use magnet links instead
- Note 4: ResNets, large Local Area Networks or Metropolitan Area Networks serving the personal computers of students in their residence halls or dormitory buildings on various university campuses, have no common governing body and hence have different policies on file sharing. The listed problems are those that are most frequently reported by Azureus users from different ResNet networks.
- Note 5: Appears to be blocking default port range; be sure to select a port in the 50,000s.
- Note 6: Appears to be blocking the bittorrent user agent for getting the .torrent file. change that via your client or use a localhost proxy.
- Note 7: Customers on Virgin's highest (XXL/50mb) tariff are not subject to bandwidth caps.
- Note 8: Customers on Plusnet's highest (Pro/20mb) tariff are not subject to bandwidth caps.
- Note 9: Customers using AT&T's Service plans are either limited to 150GB/Month on DSL, 250GB/Month on U-Verse, OR are subject to extra charge from AT&T as of May 2011. http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB409045&cv=801%2C102#fbid=KaY2W8HJ3FL
- Note 10: Rogers currently states that they cap all common P2P applications (Gnutella-clients, Torrent, etc) at [80 kbps on the upload stream, at all times of the day]. But they claim they do not throttle downloads at all. (See "See Full Details" at the bottom of the page).
- Note 11: The Motorola 2210-02-1ATT DSL modem (and probably also the other DSL modems that work with U-verse ADSL2+ HSI) does not have a bridge mode and is apparently overwhelmed by the different number of nodes communicating with your PC over DHT. Disable DHT as a work-around, and possibly also reduce the total number of connection allowed by your BitTorrent client to 100 or so.
- Note 12: Suddenlink secretly send a config file to your modem to slow/throttle your connection if you go over 1Gb download, this is denied by Suddenlink's customer services, however a Suddenlink Technician who was annoyed at Suddenlink's practices showed me on his smartphone display to prove I was not having a technical issue, showing all my traffic Red = Bad (Auto Restriction) Amber = Borderline (watched) Green = OK (No action needed)
- Note 13: UPC depends on the city and the provider they overtook that owned the network before them, Graz for example is _not_ throttled but shaped to 64Kbit after a few TB (never seen this myself at 10TB+ per month, maybe a myth), .torrent file downloads are not filtered in any case as previously stated and their upstreams (Tier1/2) do not filter the traffic (not legal in Austria since it would need to be monitored for it).
[edit] See also
Read the Azureus FAQ
