Is my torrent download slow !!!!

There are three kinds of death in this world.
There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
~Guy Almes

Basic concept of torrent is to use it for sharing files which are not copyrighted ... specially videos created by individual persons... but like we all know, it is also used for sharing copyrighted materials like sotwares and movie !!! ... errr ... but its not the topic of discussion here .....

Have you ever feel like, you are having super fast internet connection but still you get very low download speed for torrents ?? Well ,its probably because your ISP is throttling your torrent download !!!!
Well ... common practice to do so is somewhat like this ..... Like we all know , torrent is a pear to pear (p2p) application in which each user upload and download data with each other. Now whenever we want to download anything user send message to another user that have that thing for example a video file. And in its response that another user sends acknowledgment for connection. And then data transfer is done. And here come the play of ISPs ( or can say FOUL play !!! ) . Some ISP send a message to that use who has requested that file , but that looks like it comes from the other computer, telling it to stop communicating. But neither message originated from the other computer — it comes from ISP. If it were a telephone conversation, it would be like the operator breaking into the conversation, telling each talker in the voice of the other: "Sorry, I have to hang up. Good bye."!!!! ( huh ?? .. isn't technology wonderful ??? ) ... Well ISP uses these sort of mal-practice to save bandwidth cost. Like we know , they have some particular size of bandwidth , and if torrent downloader people just keep occupied most of that bandwidth then obviously other users will have to suffer from lower speed , so to provide good service ISP may need to buy more bandwidth or throttle these downloader !! .. now this 1st choice will cost lot to that ISP but the "2nd" choice , will be cheap ... so they prefer to throttle these guys !!!

Well , well known ISP "Comcast" , USA's 2nd largest ISP !! has been found guilty for this foul play .... comcast was using same technique to throttle bittorrent downloads including eDonkey and Gnutella networks !! which is illegal according to FCC laws .... now FCC guys have taken this issue very seriously due to large number of complaints and comcast has been charged for this sort of discrimination ... well .. the FCC is planning to fine Comcast .... ( from one source this value is being said , about $195,000 per subscriber ..as it have about 9 million subscriber ... this value about to reach near $1.77 trillion !!! )... well... its sure that comcast will find "some" way to get out of it ... but still it will be an example for ISPs who are trying to throttle specific kind of applications in future ....
It has been also rumor of other ISPs like , Varizon and AT&T is also applying same "tactics" to prevent excess use of their bandwidth ...
hmmm.... if you think your ISP is throttling your torrent download , you can make sure with help of this site ....

for bittorrent ...

for azures ...


That's it ....

Happy Torrenting !!!! ( err .. of course ... only for "legal" stuffs !!! )


P.S. .... according to recent news , comcast has stopped its foul play , and hence it may be able to escape fine of FCC !!!