Da-Chief
03-26-2008, 14:15
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Legit BitTorrent video delivery company Vuze, who was part of the original FCC complaint against Comcast for their traffic shaping practices, says they've developed a plugin for their BitTorrent client (http://torrentfreak.com/azureus-bittorrent-throttle-detection-plugin-080325/) that will detect and log ISP efforts to crack down on the protocol. While Wikis have been made (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/80468) to track which ISPs engage in throttling or other counter-measures, the data could be made more accurate. Says Vuze over at their blog (http://blog.vuze.com/):Specifically, this small piece of software monitors your network connections and every ten minutes measures the number of interrupted connections (called reset tcp connections) and then displays the results to you. By selecting the "share results" check-box you can also share these results with our central server, which will enable us to then aggregate the results and compare them across ISPs.
Given that many ISPs aren't being entirely transparent with users, it has become difficult for a consumer in the market for a broadband connection to compare different network management approaches. The company promises that no personally identifiable information will be involved in the project. The actual plugin is available here (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_details.php?plugin=aznetmon). It's an alternative for those users who don't have the networking chops to tinker with Wireshark (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/89789).
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Legit BitTorrent video delivery company Vuze, who was part of the original FCC complaint against Comcast for their traffic shaping practices, says they've developed a plugin for their BitTorrent client (http://torrentfreak.com/azureus-bittorrent-throttle-detection-plugin-080325/) that will detect and log ISP efforts to crack down on the protocol. While Wikis have been made (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/80468) to track which ISPs engage in throttling or other counter-measures, the data could be made more accurate. Says Vuze over at their blog (http://blog.vuze.com/):Specifically, this small piece of software monitors your network connections and every ten minutes measures the number of interrupted connections (called reset tcp connections) and then displays the results to you. By selecting the "share results" check-box you can also share these results with our central server, which will enable us to then aggregate the results and compare them across ISPs.
Given that many ISPs aren't being entirely transparent with users, it has become difficult for a consumer in the market for a broadband connection to compare different network management approaches. The company promises that no personally identifiable information will be involved in the project. The actual plugin is available here (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_details.php?plugin=aznetmon). It's an alternative for those users who don't have the networking chops to tinker with Wireshark (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/89789).
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