On 6/19/2010 11:49 PM, Mihira Fernando wrote:
On 06/20/2010 09:51 AM, Mark Allums wrote:I agree, in an ideal universe, torrents are a great innovation, and should be the standard method. Alas, in many places, by many ISPs, torrents are punished, throttled to the point of uselessness and worse.Do they throttle torrents when protocol encryption is enabled as well ? My isp here does the same thing with unencrypted torrents but no issues at all when protocol encryption is turned on. Mihira.
They can, whether they do is a different story. They can't in theory (supposedly) tell what is going through a VPN, but in practice they have found they really can, after all. Some ISPs are starting to throttle all VPNs and encrypted traffic.