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Recently Updated "PFIR Forums" Discussion Threadsen-us2008-09-15T18:29:04-07:00PFIR - People For Internet ResponsibilityPFIR - People For Internet ResponsibilityPFIR Forums1901-01-01T00:00+00:001hourlyTime Warner clearly limiting traffic due to bittorrent use
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I have Turbo Roadrunner and upgrading away from any SB4100/SB4200 (ended up with an SB5100) cleared up my eternity's worth of trouble (that TW still has never addressed in any way). I'll add that it felt like BT was being throttled or handled in some way, but I no longer believe that to be true. More here (and throughout the site, on the full, painful history): <a hguest2008-06-20T06:38:37-07:00Time Warner clearly limiting traffic due to bittorrent use
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time warner is definitely gating/limiting client downstream speed for using torrent. they do it by assigning a crappy blacklisted IP address (what happened a year ago) or simply by dropping downstream speed by a factor of 20. Since their DHCP assigns IPs by MAC address you can just change the MAC address your router reports to the network and you will receive a new IP free of the strictustoptimewarner2008-07-19T22:27:06-07:00